Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

  • @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Unpopular opinion follow-up: You should be using proper units of measurement.

    Don’t get me wrong. I can perfectly infer from the story what you’re saying. But 150 or 250 lbs just doesn’t mean anything to me. Neither does the height or what people write in the other comments.

    • Square Singer
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      51 year ago

      Totally agree, but at least they don’t measure in stones. Pounds is at least relatively easy to convert to real units.

    • @Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      “Proper units of measurement”? Come on man, don’t be a pretentious ass. We all know metric is better, but don’t shame the man (or woman idk) for using the system of measurement they’re most familiar with!

      • @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Hehe. I hope I phrased it nicely enough for them to understand i wasn’t yelling at them. I think it’s mildly ignorant to comment on the internet and not to translate it into proper units. They even edited the comment and it made me ashamed a bit. This is not the job of one individual.

        What I was really trying to do is shaming you, the people of Myanmar, Lyberia and the US. And your culture. For living in the 21st century and not even adopting the proper system that would make lots of things easier for you. And for being ignorant towards all the people on the internet who are not offended by progress. (or at least their ancestors hadn’t been…)

    • frozen
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      21 year ago

      That’s fair! I dislike that the US still hasn’t adopted metric for most things, myself. I’ll edit my comment.