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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.
you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000
I’m also among those 10,000! Good day to be alive.
We’re 3 of the lucky 30,000
I can feel all the math people dying inside from not reducing that
Such a wholesome XKCD
What does ETA stand for in this context?
Edited To Add. The constant barrage of TLAs is exhausting.
What does TLA stand for in this context?
Three Letter Acronym
Beautiful
Fucking hell, lol
CIA = Can't Ignore Ass
FBI = For Better Income
NSA = Not Sucking Anyone
There are also Extended Three-Letter Acronyms, because e.g. Four-Letter Acronym would be a TLA.
TIL
I am one of the 10,000 today.
Never seen it used like that before. Usually just use Edit:
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
The only thing I can think of is Estimated Time of Arrival.
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.
That was only in the "am I the asshole" sub which was a trash fire you were wise to avoid.
If anyone is the last, it's me. Thank you.
And then you ask their weight, and they start talking about rocks.
Then you ask about rocks and
JESUS CHRIST MARIE, THEY’RE MINERALS!
Apparently the UK still uses stone as a step above pounds. Then again, the UK is a hot mess when it comes to units...
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.
One stone is 6,35kg or 14 liberties (that's what the lb means, right?)
liberties (that's what the lb means, right?)
You got me interested what it stands for. It's the Roman libra (meaning balance).
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.
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.
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)
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
Four score and seven stone = 1218 pounds
EDIT: Whoopsie, forgot to include the 7 before multiplying, it's actually 1316.
Do Brits also tell their salary on annual instead of monthly basis? I thought that was just an American thing
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.
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.
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.
Same in Croatia. Also think it's in most countries.
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.
Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary no one in these countries talks on annual basis. it's always monthly.
Australia is also annual. We're taxed annually, so it makes sense to us
I can’t imagine a scenario where a British person actually says their salary as “pounds” rather than “grand” or just the number.
1 grand is the same as 1 kilo? So it's still weight.
1 kilopound
1 yocto ounce
What if they want to say how much it weighs and they have an imperial units fetish?