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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How long was the cricket pitch discovered in Thailand?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The british pint though....

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    They invented it, but they're also correct to abandon it.

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    [–] 30 points 4 months ago

    the British will measure in anything but Standard

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    lived about 150 million years ago

    Since we're converting everything to cricket, assuming an average lifespan of 112 days (an estimate I found online, taking into account the wide variation between the wide variety of cricket species) this is ~489,174,107 cricket generations ago.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    For those like me:

    22 yards / 20 metres

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what the wavelength of a cricket chirp had to do with a neck length. Is the neck specialized in detecting those chirps? How many crickets did that thing eat daily?

    Then I spotted the community name. Fuck.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If there is anything on earth that I do not do it is measure things by cricket pitches

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    This deviation from the widely accepted soccer field unit must be the spiteful reaction of the British to the separation from the EU.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    And cricket wasn't invented until the 16th century. Checkmate, atheists. /s

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