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In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it's time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (22 children)

I went to the states a couple years back. Went to a tavern and was deciding on a beer. Bartender overhears I'm Canadian and tells me the size of the pints in decilitres 🙄

For what it's worth, I'm pretty comfortable with FL oz from reading soda cans and stuff. I just find it crazy how unintuitive metric is to some.

I appreciated his effort, I just thought it was funny

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Decilitre is actually the common unit for drinks in Hungary (and possibly in other countries). Hungarians also use dekagramm, which is 10 grams. But the cool thing about metric is that to convert, you just move the decimal around!

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

A lot of my European beer glasses have dL on them. Offhand I can think of duchesse (Belgium), and Delirium Tremens (also Belgium). Okay, maybe it's just beers from Belgium, I'd have to take a look.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"I'd have to take a look."

Sounds like you have booked a special evening in the pub: "Can I try the next beer please?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Haha. It's for purely scientific research.

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