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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Yep, pretty much.

    When I’m working on vehicles or bicycles, it’s almost always metric wrenches and sockets, until that one random bolt or nut that’s for whatever dumb reason in imperial, like the random 1/2", or the fairly universal 5/8" spark plug socket.

    Why? Hell if I know, but some of those things probably track all the way back to Henry Ford, and possibly even before him.


  • I find the whole imperial/metric thing funny.

    Like hell, even here in the USA, it’s always the 10 millimeter socket (or in my case the 15 millimeter socket) that somehow disappears.

    A pendulum of one meter length swings at a rate of once per second.

    Where things get weird in the USA is one mile = 5280 feet. Like, who the fuck pulled that number out of their ass?



  • I’m with you 100%, I get it, and I’m from the USA.

    Our local grocery store (Ramey’s) encourages people to sign up for their loyalty program. What people have missed though is they’re planning to switch to fingerprint ID everyone, as if we’re fucking prisoners or some shit.

    No joke, their own employees informed me of that. So yeah, don’t always trust those loyalty programs…