5847
Comments (905)
sorted by:
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
84
hitchhiker 84 points ago +84 / -0

That'll buy just under an ounce, which is far short of a crap ton. I think it goes: ton, crap ton, shit ton, metric crapload, metric assload, metric shitload, fuck-ton.

6
Libraritarian 6 points ago +6 / -0

I think we need to take back shit ton from metric shit ton. Who decided the metric version of shit measurement is bigger than the correct version? CCP propaganda to make oir shit feel inferior to metric shit.

5
hitchhiker 5 points ago +5 / -0

Good observation, pede. I shall definitely correct my usage in the future. It seems to have taken off shortly after Obama came on the scene, but it looks like under GEOTUS we have started to flatten the curve: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=metric+shit-ton&year_start=2000&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3

4
Libraritarian 4 points ago +4 / -0

Wow that's amazing. I think we're onto something