I just realized while cooking that a measuring-cup cup (as measured out as 250mL in a glass measuring cup) is the same amount(s) as one of the actual plastic baking measuring cups that go inside each other like Russian dolls lol

I thought they were different somehow (something something imperial metric yadda yadda yaddda)

Your turn to come clean Lemmings!

**EDIT: to clarify, I mean volumetrically for measuring liquids

  • @Koof_on_the_Roof@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Mum: we’re definitely going the wrong way

    Me: how do you know?

    Mum: because we need to go south and we are currently going north

    Me: how do you know we are going north?

    Mum: because the sun sets in the west

    Me: oh…

    • Mechanismatic
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      245 months ago

      Technically, you could say we’re the ones who set since it’s the Earth’s rotation causing the change.

        • Deceptichum
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          5 months ago

          I know right! Whenever I do the mnemonic of NESW, North is always directly in front of me. Dont know why people bother with compasses, it’s pretty simple.

      • all-knight-party
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        35 months ago

        Don’t worry, daughter, I know we’re going south because I set in the same location I was already in.

    • @tal
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      I used to use the sun.

      Then I had a car compass for a while.

      But, honestly, everyone’s got a GPS-enabled cell phone these days, and unless you’re worried about running out of charge, that pretty much beats the pants off anything else.

      EDIT: And if you’re in an operable car, then you, in all likelihood, have a source of electricity in the form of the cigarette lighter.

    • @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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      15 months ago

      I always use Never Ear Shredded Wheat to remember the directions.

      As for which way the sun sets, I remember a quite from either Shanghai Noon/Knights in which Owen Wilson’s character talks about how the sun rises in Japan however it sets in the West.