• cron@feddit.org
    233·
    5 个月前

    Oh please. What’s next? A twelve hour time system with am and pm? Measuring distances in thumbs and other body parts?

    • rtxn@lemmy.world
      172·
      5 个月前

      Worse: measuring temperatures based on what one guy felt was the coldest it could get in the winter and the hottest his fever would reach.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      5 个月前

      To be fair, “thumb” was only a unit in determinating what stick we could beat our wives with.