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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (13 children)

When having a beer, I've always found it funny that one of the few imperial measurements metric nations kept around, the pint, America went and invented their own. Uncharacteristically a smaller version too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The US has their own version of all the imperial units. Also who uses pints except the Brits?

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

India, I think. But that's the Brits' fault too obviously.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We don't use pint here. We have some traditional measures that have different absolute values depending on location. We are almost totally metric here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I could've sworn I once had a pint but it was in a hotel lobby in Bangalore so not quite representative. I stand corrected, thanks.

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