alt text: a photo of a piece of lumber supporting a floor, printed on it is “242 DICKS” with the rest of the word obsured behind the the wall beneath it. the caption reads “americans will use anything but the metric system”.

  • @SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    144 months ago

    That’s certainly not proper imperial. The number is too big. In imperial you invent a new word if things get too hard to count on your fingers. Something like 6 dicks is 1 fest and 9 fests is 1 celebration.