Pretentious Putz Of The Year (warning: long!)

[protege]

I could go on for days on how much fabrics customers suck!

LOL my grandmother once did alterations for people, and worked in a dress shop decades ago. If it wasn't for her stroke...I'm sure she could tell some stories. Most of her customers were pretty damn nice. But, every now and then...she'd get people who would bitch and moan about the price of the material, or even that she couldn't work on things immediately. What do you expect, assholes? She's a 90-year-old lady with a beat-up sewing machine! It's not her fault her memory sometimes has issues, or that the machine is wearing out. She does damn good work--either let her do what she does best, or GTFO.

[Shalom]

Anyone else, not from Canada, have the equivalents stuck in their head? i.e. you see 1 cup, you see 250 mL, and it doesn't register that they're not actually the same?

Not really; I don't generally encounter those two types of measure side-by-side in the same environments, plus due to the nature of my training I've had it drilled into me what the real equivalents are, e.g. one cup is 240 ml. (OK, it's really 237 ml, but we commonly round it off.) I have to say that pharmacists aren't typical of the population at large when it comes to this sort of thing, though.

I use metric at work because almost all prescriptions nowadays are in metric, although I did have to learn the old apothecaries' system for the state boards. Thank $DEITY the oldtimers who wrote quantities in drams (ℨ), scruples (℈) and minims (ℳ) are mostly retired by now.

(You will occasionally see the abbreviation ℨ misused on a prescription to mean a teaspoon, but 1ℨ is in fact ⅛ of a US ounce (℥), whereas a teaspoon is 1/6 of an ounce. Not quite the same thing.)

However, outside of the work environment, I think almost entirely in the Imperial system, or at least the USA variant of same. If I look at a recipe (which is what ℞ stands for to begin with) it's not usually done in metric, so I wouldn't generally encounter 250ml.

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