If you only see the abbreviation fl oz and happen to live in Florida, I can see making the connection. People don’t talk about ounces being both a volume (fl oz) and weight (oz) measurement. Go metric and you don’t have to know!
I was thinking this was going to be something like a logsday post but then I realized it was just as weid but different.
This confused the fuck out of my metric brain.
Fl oz. It’s not Florida, but fluid.
TBF most of Florida is
Yea, it confused me for a bit too long, as someone outside the US.
I know it means “fluid ounces” but every single time I see it my brain says “floral ounces”.
I just read it floz. Doesn’t mean anything to my European ass, anyway.
2 flozes? Sure. Might as well be that.
Whoa mine does too I wonder why that is? What an odd assumption for a brain to make
My theory is something like fluid -> fluoride -> floral but who knows
Thanks copilot!
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We call them “Flounces” actually.
I’ve chosen to read it as “fluid ounces” for years, never once questioning “how is a fluid ounce different from a regular one?”.
By pure coincidence, you’ve chosen to read it the exact way it’s meant to be read.
Fluid ounce is a measure of volume (8 fluid ounces per cup) ounces is a unit of weight (16 ounces per pound)
The most confusing part of this to me is having this feeling of only remembering seeing floz on orange juice boxes, so it could have been Florida for all I knew. Thanks for the clarification that I’m only going partially insane!
It’s the Murikan way to copy milliliters, which are the same as cubic centimeters volumetrically.
Fluid ounces are cubic nurples.
Huh? I just did a conversion and it says 1 fluid ounce equals 30 milliliters
The conversion process takes many computing cycles. I don’t recommend typing it into Google too many times or it will cause brownouts in North Dakota.
I wonder if they like putting Kentucky Jelly on their toast.
1 Florida Ounce is how much meth 1 Florida Man smokes before making 1 headline.
Subreddit is wrong, there are stupid questions.
With the metric system, this would not be an issue.
When I was growing up in FL it was ‘five fingers’, but later was standardized to 28.35g.
That, in a nutshell, is a good indirect explanation for you if you’re still unsure how it could happen that Trump got elected for a second term.
That took me too long
