(just an alternative to the N64 post from yesterday)

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    3 months ago

    A fifth of what? It isn’t bad enough you people measure distance in football fields now you measure volumes in undefined fractions? What is a fifth LOL

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      3 months ago

      A fifth used to be a fifth of a gallon. Stupidly as the world became more globalized bottle sizes followed and so the bottles we still call a fifth are actually 750ml. What’s worse is that the next unit up is a handle which is 1.75 liters! So it doesn’t even follow mathematically