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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4740475" data-attributes="member: 8863">Is it just me, or do we D&D players tend to talk about this a lot?  There was a discussion about this a few months ago, and I've been seeing these discussions ever since I started posting on Usenet.  Not as common (or flame-filled!) as alignment, but still a perennial.Maybe it's an internet thing.As much as Americans complain about not understanding metric, sometimes it seems silly.  I mean, 2 liter bottles of soda have been around for almost 40 years now and people have no problem with them.And of course damn near everything here is labeled in both systems.Then, it gets even wackier when our units have been defined by metric equivalents for nearly the last hundred years!I agree with this.  A somewhat simple version of the customary units are good for some settings, like a fantasy campaign, where metric would be too anachronistic.It's completely different over here; it's been legal to sell stuff in metric since nearly the end of the Civil War, but few people have ever done so, because they'd likely have gone out of business in the old days.  These days, it's inertia.What really gets me is how some companies to cut costs have been resizing their packaging ever so slightly, and selling slightly smaller amounts to save money.  I can understand how people would be more comfortable with stuff in the common quantities of 8, 12, 16, 18, or 20 oz.  But now I'm seeing stuff with measurements like 13.7 oz.  WTF is that?  If people are just visually measuring up stuff with their eyes, and not looking at measurements, why don't the companies just go metric without any major fanfare and be done with it?  It's likely to happen eventually, and round metric numbers look better to me than crap like 13.7.Isn't a liter bigger than a pint?  Like quite a BIT bigger?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Let's see, a quart of something is nearly equivalent to a liter, so a liter stein should be something like nearly twice the size.  Though I'm going by the US units,  2 qts = 1.89L, don't know how it matches in Imperial.</blockquote>

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