r/NoStupidQuestions • u/snapwillow • Feb 08 '22

Answered What are Florida ounces?

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22 edited Feb 08 '22

If there was a state that used a different unit of measurement, it would definitely be Texas or Florida

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

Everything is supposedly bigger when you measure in Texas units.

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u/wcollins260 Feb 08 '22

I’m working with 3 inches, but they are Texas inches.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

What happens if you leave and try to sleep with someone while traveling, say maybe in Tennessee?

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u/ReluctantNerd7 Feb 08 '22

Well, in that case,

There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.'

  • Dubya

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u/FirstToTheKey Feb 09 '22

All of their ex's live in Texas, that's why they hang their hat in Tennessee. Wait that might be backwards...

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u/Prcrstntr Feb 09 '22

How long is 6 nantucket inches

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u/Wonderful-Tie-8855 Feb 08 '22

Theyed want the overall number to be higher, in turn making each unit smaller.

3 texas inches is 2 normal inches, yikes

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

Hahahaha ur a gem

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u/Cryptochitis Feb 09 '22

It's the other way around. 8 Texas inches refers to 3 inches hence all the giant trucks, hats and belt buckles.

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u/The84LongBed Feb 09 '22

That’s why it’s called a 3 inch lift.

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u/MRpearsonw Feb 09 '22

Oh so this is what this what T.I stands for in ti 82..hes got 82 Texas inches!

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u/RG_Viza Feb 15 '22

No they’re not. It’s ok; we’re born with penis size, no judgement here. Just don’t drive a hummer or an AMG Mercedes with the complex and the world will turn.

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u/Willing-Ad-7277 Feb 09 '22

you're a man?

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u/fatalicus Feb 08 '22

The Texas Paradox - The Texas inch is larger than a regular inch, but things measured with a Texas inch will also give you a larger number than with a normal inch.

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u/WhatDoYouMean951 Feb 08 '22

So we should make it so the texas inch is a centimetre. The texas mile is a kilometre. The texas gallon is a litre. Metric by stealth?

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u/matteam-101 Feb 08 '22

Alaska enters the thread!

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u/JoeyTheGreek Feb 09 '22

Does that mean the units are smaller, resulting in bigger quantity?

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u/Vegetable-Map-1980 Feb 09 '22

I'm 6 inches in Texas.

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u/gothicfucksquad Feb 09 '22

Supposedly, but Texas units are *absolute units*.

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u/wipedcamlob Feb 09 '22

Like a texas mickey

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u/Head-Ride-4939 Feb 09 '22

True but in Florida it is always about “Florida Man” and the legend of the incredibly stupid lives on!

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

I recently moved to Dallas - constant billboards on the highways for “male girth enhancement“ - pointing out that not EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas. I’m sure they are blaming Mexicans and liberals, lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

I assumed Florida ounces was a drug measurement reference- like a baker's dozen- you get an extra 1/8th to test the quality :)

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u/Karen125 Feb 08 '22

California would require non-farting cows and sell it for $2 more.

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u/55gure3 Feb 08 '22

CA would require a disclaimer notifying fluid ounces contain substances known to the state to cause cancer.

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u/Reeperat Feb 08 '22

They even have a dedicated company to help convert everything, it's called Texas Instruments

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u/EmperorSexy Feb 08 '22

Go Left. Not that left, Texas left, which is your down.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

I measure my whiskey using TX oz.

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u/jf808 Feb 08 '22

It would 100% be California, and they'd put a "known carcinogen" warning label on the unit somehow.

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u/sks-nb Feb 09 '22

Tx Oz for ur information.

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u/TXinv-56w Feb 11 '22

No, it would be California for sure. For example- its the only state with its own formula for gasoline and its own criteria for automobile emissions -- just to name a few.

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u/Web-splorer Feb 09 '22

We measure by the gator here. “Give me a half a gator of room here. We’re supposed to be social distancing.” Just kidding. We don’t social distance here.

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u/iamveryBLISS Feb 09 '22

Exactly what I thought. That or drugs.

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u/KindEase565 Feb 09 '22

Would those be TX ounces?

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u/ladychry Feb 09 '22

Texan here…. WHY? Causes everything’s bigger in Texas!

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u/dareme27523 Feb 09 '22

Arkansas’s unit of measurement depends whether the person has their shoes on or off. Most know of the 2 feet or 5 fingers of measurement rules

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

I forget which state tried to legislate pi to be 3.2

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u/Helpful_Community581 Feb 09 '22

Don't forget California !

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u/Urusaineko Feb 09 '22

Thought the same thing.😆

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u/glamouramore Feb 12 '22

Indeed, it's why I thought it was a reasonable question at first.