>>93056531America I don't quite know how to tell you this but
you know how you have a non-standard system of customary measures, based on the old English Customary measures in use from around the 1500s but abandoned by the UK and its Empire (comprising most of the nations of the world that had ever used those measures) in the 1850s for the newer Imperial measures, which were themselves only standardised in the 1890s by reference to the Metric standards laid down in continental Europe, formally adopted by the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada in the 1960s as their standard, but abandoned by Australia just five years later in favour of metrication (Australia now no longer allows the legal sale of goods by any other standard) and later even by the UK, originator of the Imperial standard, as it entered the EU and found metrication to be a far more rational system, being a custom-made one rather than an inherited system of quirks designed o rationalise everything around the "average" length of a monarch's foot?
well
your fluid ounces are roughly equivalent to Imperial fl.oz, but
your pints are only 16 fl.oz, whereas an Imperial pint is 20 fl.oz
and the Brits - and their former dominions, except you - drink Imperial pints of beer
except where they drink metric beers, which is where it gets tricky
because of Europe going metric, the old Pinte du Roi (royal pint) is no longer served, but because it's close enough you now get a full liter when you ask for that, and that's just Europe
in the UK you can still get a so-called "yard" of beer, which is served in a special "yard" glass, which is supposed to be a yard long (.914 meters) but has no actual measure associated with it (as a novelty serving intended to be used in competitive drinking, it's rarely used as it's associated with alcohol poisoning); it's around 1 and a half liters in volume, but supposed to be drunk in seconds to "win"
around this time you might like to google Hogarth
