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[–] [email protected] 145 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Wait a minute... Does the name of the currency come from payments that were not counted but weighed? Gotta check.

ETA: Oh my gosh yes, one pound sterling (currency) was originally one pound (weight) of sterling silver. I'm probably the last person to discover this, but still that's pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I’m also among those 10,000! Good day to be alive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We’re 3 of the lucky 30,000

I can feel all the math people dying inside from not reducing that

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Such a wholesome XKCD

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What does ETA stand for in this context?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Edited To Add. The constant barrage of TLAs is exhausting.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What does TLA stand for in this context?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Fucking hell, lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

CIA = Can't Ignore Ass

FBI = For Better Income

NSA = Not Sucking Anyone

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are also Extended Three-Letter Acronyms, because e.g. Four-Letter Acronym would be a TLA.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am one of the 10,000 today.

Never seen it used like that before. Usually just use Edit:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It’s weird when Reddit started shifting from ETA: “everyone’s the asshole” to exited to add.

Idk I guess it’s the kids and their new dang language and hippity hop music

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

The only thing I can think of is Estimated Time of Arrival.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Huh. I used reddit for about 12 years before switching to Lemmy last year and I don't think I ever noticed ETA. Maybe just different subs used it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

That was only in the "am I the asshole" sub which was a trash fire you were wise to avoid.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

If anyone is the last, it's me. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 6 months ago (4 children)

And then you ask their weight, and they start talking about rocks.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Then you ask about rocks and

JESUS CHRIST MARIE, THEY’RE MINERALS!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Maybe I'm just being dense rn, but... huh?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Breaking Bad reference

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Apparently the UK still uses stone as a step above pounds. Then again, the UK is a hot mess when it comes to units...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I'm about 13 stone 1. Which I know is about 83kg. But I have no idea how many pounds in a stone. I do know that there's about 2 and a quarter lb to a kg. Therefore I must be about 186lb.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

One stone is 6,35kg or 14 liberties (that's what the lb means, right?)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

liberties (that's what the lb means, right?)

You got me interested what it stands for. It's the Roman libra (meaning balance).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I know they use mph. Do they use km for distance or miles? I think they use meters for shorter distances so I've no clue.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

MPH for speed, liters for fuel, MPG for efficiency...

Some road signs are still in yards and feet as is height but length of cars/buses are often described in meters.

Weight is flat out weird, very few places sell by the pound nowadays, it's usually by the kilo or half kilo. But most people are more familiar with Stones... even if they're not quite sure how that breaks down into the smaller weights.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Road distances are in miles, speed in mph, heights in feet & inches, anything else is a hot mess generally trending towards metric the younger you are (or if you're in STEM)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'm starting to hear people talk in km but nothing official

We use lb and stone at home for weight but medical its kg

Personally I was taught in the 80s and early 90s they trued to teach us both metric and imperial. I also did an apprenticeship in metric on imperial lathes and mills

I have no clue how less than an inch works past 40, thou being 1mm I struggle with my weight in kg. Miles might as well be a unit of time as beyond telling you how long it takes to get somewhere miles are useless

Bonus anecdot

When I moved out of my parents I had to ask for help buying minced beef because growing up I learned I needed 1/2 lb of minced beef but it was packaged I'm 500 grams

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Four score and seven stone = 1218 pounds

EDIT: Whoopsie, forgot to include the 7 before multiplying, it's actually 1316.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Do Brits also tell their salary on annual instead of monthly basis? I thought that was just an American thing

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Where do they describe it on a monthly basis? I'm in Australia and I've never heard anyone describe their salary in anything other than annual. Take home pay we'd go fortnightly though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Over here in Belgium we do, I thought that's how it's done in most countries. It makes more sense to me too, you get your salary monthly (or maybe fortnightly like you) and you talk about your rent, debt payments, ... also on a monthly basis.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

In the U.S., most salary jobs are spoken about in annual terms. Job listing's list annual salary, offer letters list annual pay, my employee portal lists annual pay, etc. My pay stubs are biweekly though. Pretty much nothing is ever described in monthly terms, at least not that I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Same in Croatia. Also think it's in most countries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

In NZ we would talk annual salary, rent per week, and we just don't talk about mortgage payments because it's easier not to.

I think we probably do annual salary because there isn't consistency with how people are paid. Weekly and fortnightly are probably the most common, but monthly is pretty normal too and I've seen some being paid twice monthly.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary no one in these countries talks on annual basis. it's always monthly.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Australia is also annual. We're taxed annually, so it makes sense to us

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I can’t imagine a scenario where a British person actually says their salary as “pounds” rather than “grand” or just the number.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

1 grand is the same as 1 kilo? So it's still weight.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

1 yocto ounce

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What if they want to say how much it weighs and they have an imperial units fetish?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Then we'd refer to it in Stones...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Did they say they make about five thousand stone?

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