As the old saying goes, "Europeans think 100 miles is a long way, Americans think 100 years is a long time."
Europeans don't know what 100 miles is.
That's a common misconception. Europeans hate standard measurements, but they aren't dumb. They can do conversions.
fair enough but we don't really have a feel for how far a mile is without converting it to kilometres first
We don't have to, because we don't live in the 3 countries that use them.
we live on the internet that uses it a lot though
It's nice to have some quick mental conversions ready.
1 mile is roughly 1.6 km, so 100 miles is roughly 160 km
3 feet is roughly a meter
2 pounds are roughly 1 kg
1 gallon is roughly 4 liters
32 fahrenheit it 0 celcius, 100 fahrenheit is slightly over body temperature, 200 fahrenheit is almost enough to boil water... Any other value requires math to figure out...
Any other value requires math to figure out
-40° requires no math. Too cold to do math at that temp anyway.
And dogs don't know how long a human year is in dog years
As the old saying goes, "Europeans think 100 miles is a long way, Americans think 100 years is a long time."
Europeans don't know what 100 miles is.
That's a common misconception. Europeans hate standard measurements, but they aren't dumb. They can do conversions.
fair enough but we don't really have a feel for how far a mile is without converting it to kilometres first
We don't have to, because we don't live in the 3 countries that use them.
we live on the internet that uses it a lot though
It's nice to have some quick mental conversions ready.
1 mile is roughly 1.6 km, so 100 miles is roughly 160 km
3 feet is roughly a meter
2 pounds are roughly 1 kg
1 gallon is roughly 4 liters
32 fahrenheit it 0 celcius, 100 fahrenheit is slightly over body temperature, 200 fahrenheit is almost enough to boil water... Any other value requires math to figure out...
-40° requires no math. Too cold to do math at that temp anyway.
And dogs don't know how long a human year is in dog years