• CombatWombat@feddit.online
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    3 months ago

    I am also fascinated by the measurement “two soccer fields.” Americans largely play soccer on American football fields, so any American would just say “two football fields.” But everyone else hates calling it “soccer” and prefer to use metric rather than comparisons? This just seems like they chose all their measurements to be maximally irritating.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, nobody play soccer in Switzerland, they play football, how would they know how big is soccer field?