For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

  • Fleur__@lemmy.world
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    Kilo is just a prefix meaning thousand. Your bathroom scale doesn’t measure kilos it measures grams in sets of 1000.

    Well technically it measures newtons but I digress

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      Ooh, I sense the presence of another hill! The vernacular use of “kilo” as short for “kilogram” must stop?

      I love that in the US media, you only ever hear about kilos in the context of drug seizures. Those evil drug lords poisoning the youth with bastardized metric jargon…