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v-raze
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Don't get me started on the whole imperial gallon vs US gallon thing. The imperial gallon is larger than the US gallon (by a factor of 1.20095). This already makes things unnecessarily confusing when talking to UK friends about gas prices or vehicle fuel efficiency, but it gets even worse, because there are smaller units in both systems. You would think these would scale accordingly, so the imperial quart and pint and fluid ounce would also be larger. But for whatever reason the imperial system uses 20 fluid ounces per pint as opposed to the US's 16, meaning there are 160 imperial fluid ounces in an imperial gallon instead of 128, so the imperial fluid ounce is actually smaller

I would marvel at how this might mess with things like liquor measurements for mixed drinks, but apparently there's basically nothing close to an international standard on shot sizes, so that seems to be a lost cause for world-traveling drinkers from the get go


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Yeah best as I can understand they use a strange mix of imperial and metric, and it's entirely situational/application-based which one comes into play. Like, to further elaborate on alcohol despite it not really being my thing- beer is served in imperial pints (~1.2 US pints!) but liqour is measured in shots that are either 25 or 35ml. Which is itself weird- their government weights and measures page lists that a unit of liquor should be "Either 25ml and multiples of 25ml, or 35ml and multiples of 35ml (not both on the same premises)."

What's perhaps even funnier is the wikipedia page for 'Shot Glass' which lists under its size table that Canadian shots are either 1.5 US fl oz or 1.5 imperial fl oz. At that small a size it's only a 1ml difference but it's hilarious to me that they somehow combined the US garbo and the UK garbo into a third, entirely new arbitrary unit of measurement