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[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago
[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

1k lbs is a perfectly cromulent unit of enbiggenment, colloquially known as "Calebs".

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Give me washing machines or give me death

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Indeed that's 10 hundredweight. Which maybe ironically enough is rather intuitive for me, Germany still uses pounds and hundredweight (Zentner) in informal and sectorial use, meaning 500g and 50kg.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I believe that's 80 stone

[-] bronzle@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Not a fan of kilopounds, klbs?

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's a good replacement for the heavy-fridge unit.

[-] SimonHoogwerff@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago

America is slowly switching to the metric system: metric pounds, metric feet, you know...

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago

I mean, it’s more clear than 0.5 tons, since “tons” doesn’t specify US or metric. Not that it would matter in this specific instance.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

But if it doesn't matter, what's the problem with tons?

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