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
    127·
    10 个月前

    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@lemmy.mlEnglish
      306·
      10 个月前

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

    • tal@lemmy.today
      91·
      10 个月前

      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.

      • rammer@sopuli.xyz
        6·
        10 个月前

        You at least know how to use the sun. There are many who have never bothered to learn.

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      1·
      10 个月前

      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.