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My favorite past time: Using metric prefixes in socially questionable circumstances.

How many peoplewere at the rally? Oh about 3 kilopeople.

How much money do you have on you? 1 kilodollar

How old are you? 3.5 decayears old

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@jeff Temperature Is one area i really dont care what system you use. We dont really use metric prefixes for it so there isnt much to convert. All systems for temperature make just as much sense as the next really.

@freemo @jeff yeah why couldn't we have a natural log base system instead?

@freemo but but but โ€ฆ decade already *has* a metric prefix โ€ฆ

@freemo Oh wow. xD. I will repeat this somewhere where I can. Someone might sort of be amused by it.

@freemo on the opposite end: a bus ticket costs 0.0017 grands, you're 0.035 millennia, and the rallye had 6 cohorts.

@freemo "kilobucks" is actually quite popular in Russian slang to refer to thousand dollar amounts

@freemo k$ and kkc (Kฤ = Koruna ฤeskรก, my local currency) is used pretty often by me and my fellows...

@freemo Do people show any reaction at all? I think this would be a very good way to gauge if people are good listeners at all..... ๐Ÿ˜‰

Please, for the love of all things you hold dear, do NOT try this with your wife/husband/partner!

@freemo SI prefixes blow people's minds. I've tried using "megametre" instead of "1000 kilometres" and it always causes a stop-the-conversation-WTF-was-that moment with my interlocutors. :)

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