UK drops plans for use of imperial measuring system | RTE

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The fact that 98.7 percent of over 100k people could agree on anything is amazing to me.

Look, when someone asks "How many teaspoons in a quart?" we all want to jump off a fucking bridge.

3 teaspoons in a tablespoon.

16 tablespoons in a cup

4 cups in a quart.

3x16x4=192 teaspoons in a quart.

Is that a metric or imperial cup and teaspoon?

It's Murrikan cup and teaspoon.

Ah right, quick adjustments needed then, one UK cup is 25/24ths of a US cup, and a UK teaspoon is 0.986 US ones

Simple 👍

Except if it's Maple syrup, in this case the cup is probably a Canadian cup. One Canadian cup is 0.96076 US cup.

Imperial is great !

Much more exciting than just moving the decimal point when doing conversions, isn’t it. You never know if you’ve made a mistake somewhere along the way by multiplying with 14 instead of 12. So much fun.

What the hell is "percent"? Convert that to Imperial Horsehooves or get out