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I need to learn basic measurements, if I am ever going to decorate any place successfully! 🥔🥴

WTF no one told me that measurements were important for adulting, otherwise, I would have paid attention in math class.
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12 points to a pica
6 picas or three barleycorns to an inch
12 inches to a foot
3 feet to a yard
2 yards to a fathom
110 fathoms to a furlong
10 furlongs to a Kentucky Derby

If you need volume measurements, you'll need to understand gallons. There's the dry gallon AKA corn gallon. There's the wine gallon and the ale gallon. And of course Darth Vader's favorite - the imperial gallon!
Zaphod42 · 51-55, M
@ElwoodBlues And then there’s weight. My favorite is the jelly bean. For example, I weigh 96,615 jelly beans, rounded off.
@Zaphod42 Some people prefer to do weight in stones; myself, I like the firkin.

DrWatson · 70-79, M
@ElwoodBlues And it's tricky reading speed limit signs when they're in fpf -- furlongs per fortnight!