This one’s a keeper.

Trunk monkey.

“These are small, but those are far away.”

My first example was “a cup of frozen chicken strips”.

I know I can make a guess how much they mean, but I could easily be off by a factor of 2.

It really wouldn’t be hard to have the weight listed.

This sounds like a catch-22 problem.

Maybe scales could be improvised, with a stick, some cups, and awkward-shaped chunks of chicken in one of the cups.

True, but that’s just replacing a cup with a length, and rules out using an existing tub.

Why not use weight, which is easy to measure and tolerant of different forms/shapes?

https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/

(Yes, the “bird poop” one is correct, it does talk about fuel consumption too).

A similar chart could be made for the US, proving that it does use metric: soda and wine bottles, medicine doses, eye-glasses measurements (in fact most medical things).

I think that both systems are used in schools now.

But then I see cooking instructions for a “cup of chicken strips” and a recipe having 1/4 cup of butter, and I wonder why anyone thought that volume was a good idea there.

• “Avocado?”
• “Don’t mind if I do!”

“Mee-out! Mee-out!”

There an app for that now.

At least, there is on the Flipper Zero.

A tone dialer. Like this

https://images.app.goo.gl/fbdmckv44BY7fdWw9

Not for phone phreaking, just for speed-dialling.

I would make international calls frequently. I would buy calling cards. The process was: dial the 800 number on the card. Enter the id number on the card to use some of its credit. Dial the number to call. Their service would then connect me at a low rate to another country(probably making a voip call).

So I’d set up the 3 speed dial buttons with those. For each new card I’d only have to change the card’s unique number.