'muricans, not even once.
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So youāre saying thereās a ton of tons?
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Would there be a gross of tons?
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gotta compensate in some ways
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When I think when I see American measurements all I get is a ton of gross.
And yet in like the 1st or 2nd grade they taught us that there were 4 litres in a gallon. 
I donāt know what the problem is hereā¦ All you have to remember are these simple measurement conversions:
1 gallon = 4 quarts
1 quart = 2 pints
1 pint = 2 cups
1 cup = 16 tablespoons
1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons
1 teaspoon = 0.300781 cubic inches
And then it is obvious that 1 gallon is 231 cubic inches. I donāt know how that could be any simpler
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Youāve left out the fundamental unit of measurement but I am a true scholar, and count only in base barleycorn
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Which is 0.1212121212 Big Macs.
Edit: You have to love a unit of measure to produces such a beautifully repeating number of Big Macs
Is this why US companies always manage to mess up converting their sizes to the EU size equivalent? 
The us sizes themselves can vary way too much so I try and use the EU sizes instead. Some places will say that a EU 37 is a US 5 while some will have a EU 39 as a US 5.
Yet somehow they all seem to mostly get the EU size correct? they just canāt agree on the conversion from EU to US
yes, I have tiny baby feet. It is a curse
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Jokeās on you, as a real american I donāt need to know how much a gallon is because the only liquid I buy is whiskey and thatās sold in handles, not in gallons.
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And if you embrace the truth that Cartesian coordinates are for cucks, 1 teaspoon is 4.25219123 spherical barleycorns. I have now simultaneously wasted far too much, and yet not enough, of my life converting to polar cereal units.
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Lucky you! As a Pastafarian I drink rum which is sold in ml and that sounds easy enough. Except when you consider that all Pastafarian rum drinkers should be Pirates (as they are the chosen ones) and pirates sail pirate ships which are crafted from wood which is measured in Cords. So every time I buy a bottle of rum I have to convert from ml to cord to know if I am getting a good deal or not. The struggle is real.
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Iām trying to do this blind and will Google after to confirm if Iām right. We (Britainās cooler and less transphobic cousin) use a bastardised version of everything, so weāre quietly aware of the existence of European measurements but still do British shoe sizes. I think the UK-US conversion is just UK +1, and Iām also fairly sure the EU-UK one is EU -34 (until you hit negative numbers then it rolls over to like 12 or 14 or something). So 39 EU should be 6 US, right?
Edit: what in the ever loving fuck is this
This chart is genuinely stressing me out. Why are the shoe sizes gendered? Why are they different by 1.5 sizes? Why do neither of them actually align with the British or EU sizes? Why does it go 37.5, 38, 39, 39.5??
My entire world is crumbling around me the more I Google this, yeet ye not into the abyss lest the abyss yeet shoe sizes back
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That chart isnāt correct though? EU size 37 should be womens size 7 Also I have not seen any company actually use the EU half sizes 
Also it gets even more messed up when you consider the fact that some brands will just randomly chose different sizes/ scales for their āboysā shoes. Which I do occasionally buy when theyāre on clearance 
I wonāt pay full price for rubber soled, and plastic leather based shoes, but I will gladly pay like $7-$12 for them. they never sell well in the size I wear so they end up getting marked down super low
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(Sorry for the derail here) 
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@longhairedboy @jamie petition to change @mr.shitesideās title to āwasting my life converting to polar cereal unitsā
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From the chaos is born a new enlightenment: itās a quantisation error.
Thereās no nice tidy integer ratio, so depending on whether you value small signal linearity (any given person might shop within 1-3 shoe sizes, they donāt care if that maps nicely across the whole range) or the closest actual answer after rounding, you end up skipping sizes in different places and having two justifiable answers.
Edit: my size is UK 8/EU 42 which just happens to be a very close stable match. So thatās why I said 34, but a lot of the time 33 is more accurate.
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Okay but then explain how I bought a fancy pair of dress shoes in size 5 and yet theyāre at least 2 sizes too big if not 3 I had even found the brandās shoe size list and by their measurements it should have fit or been slightly small. a 5 in all foot size options should at least almost fit me.
Iāve yet to bother to get them fixed though. Since I do have small feet it wonāt look weird to just have shoe repair place pad the shoe with some leather to make the inside fit my foot right.
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Iāve got a half decent explanation for like the inverse of that, where you need to go up a size or two or three: shoe size only directly measure foot length, and yeah width does get scaled up as you go up in sizes but itās not (as far as I know) actually part of the measurement. So Iāve had shoes that were the right length but too narrow, and needed to size up beyond the right length to get adequate width. My vans for skating are 2-3 full sizes bigger than usual. Did shop at a place that attached a letter for width, kinda cup size band width logic, but it seemed proprietary to that brand.
Are the shoes definitely too big all over? Or just too wide for your foot shape, and the length is actually ok?
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