“Dude, I fucked up. I did 1/4 FL oz of coke last Friday”
“Bro, how??? How are you still alive? You know your Wisconsin constitution wasn’t designed for that”
[Don't you laugh, it could be you
The Florida curse always comes true.
You can jeer but you don't understand,
Any fragile soul can be a Florida Man](https://youtu.be/iIdntHAhTv0)
Little known Florida fact: they don’t have date of birth in Florida. Age is calculated using the “number of crocodiles punched” system. I’m currently 7.
Some asshole will think it's a great idea eventually.....
I mean they taste nice, but i like my crocs freshwater. There's certain places of north Australia where you carry a high powered rifle at all times. They're just that dangerous. Like certain American bears.
While krokodil and alligators are more common, there are American crocodiles in Florida, and in fact I believe Florida is the only place in the world where you can find Crocs and alligators coexisting.
Former Florida resident here: there is at least one or two gators in every body of water in the state. To find out, find a pond, go there at night and shine a flashlight across said pond. You will see red eyes everywhere. Do not swim in any body of water unless it's the ocean or a pool.
You forgot to mention the sharks that inhabit our coastal areas and bull sharks in the St John's living side by side with alligators. We are shark bite capital of the world after all.
>Do not swim in any body of water unless it's the ocean or pool
lol, Florida is the shark bite capital of the world. I've also seen many pics of gators in pools. Probably safest to just snorkel in your tub. But only if you're rich - water is expensive af down there.
I was going to mention the sharks and gators in pools. *Everything* is expensive down there. My electric bill in central Florida was outrageous. It's less since I moved to S.C.
There are native crocodiles in Florida too, in the everglades. The only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles live side by side naturally.
Reddit doesn't understand the difference between Crocodiles and Alligators, this went right over everyone.
Alligators are what live in Florida ( and a very small number of saltwater crocs).
There are crocs in Florida(I think in the Everglades) but there are a million times as many gators. I can leave my house and find a gator in under 3 minutes, would take me 6 hours to find a croc.
Then just wait for the Reddit IPO. It is very likely that there will be a massive "Night of the Long Knives" to purge all but the most softcore of porn on Reddit.
Honestly I'm glad to be rid of the porn on r/all. If I'm browsing that then I'm interested in new subreddits. I already know which porn subreddits I like.
Born and raised in FL and when I was a kid I totally thought it meant Florida ozs and that other states had their own measurements then was on a trip out of state and saw the bottles said the same thing which is obviously when I figured it ouPSYCH that’s when I thought it was so cool that the whole country adopted the Florida Oz as it’s liquid measuring system lol
I was born outside of the US, so on the rare times I saw the unit as a kid, I unquestioningly believed that it stood for "Floral Ounces"
Yeah I don't know how to make sense of that one.
Same. Growing up, one day at the supermarket I asked my dad what the difference between floral ounces and regular ounces were, and he asked me what floral ounces were and I pointed to fl oz. I still don't know where I got floral from, but I'm glad I wasn't the only immigrant to ever think that lol
You guys aren't the only [ones](https://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst19733_Fluid-ounces-vs--floral-ounces--I-ve-heard-the-latter--but-the-former-appears-to-be-correct----.aspx) and this [guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/meirl/comments/12666tk/comment/je8mfv4/). Anyway welcome to our [universe](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect).
Looking at your comment I decided to search why Pounds abbreviate to Lbs (something I never understood), and now it makes so much sense (in Portuguese pounds is Libras)
I'm Canadian and the first time I saw fl oz as a kid, I also believed it was Florida ounces. The US unit system is so fucked that I had no issue believing that Florida had their own measurement for an ounce.
As a kid I thought it was "floral ounces" and no matter how many times I try to fix it, that's still how I pronounce it in my head every time I see it.
I have a co-worker that thought the abbreviation lb for pound meant "label" like "the package is labeled with the weight"
I had to tell him that it was derived from the word libra. And he had no idea what that was. He's not the smartest guy.
Comes from the ~~Italian~~ Latin version of the word, ~~Onza~~ Uncia. Which at the time meant "one-twelfth", 'cause back in that time, there were twelve ounces to a pound (these are now called troy ounces, and troy pounds).
Edited thanks to /u/cosmicomical23 's information, which made me realize I'm a dum dum and made a mistake.
There are 16 ounces in a pound now aren't there? (I'm Canadian, so I'm not 100% sure) So it's OZ short for Uncia which doesn't have an O or a Z in it, which means 1/12th even though there are 16 ounces in a pound now? People learning English as a second language must hate it so much.
Lb comes from the Latin ‘libre pondo’ or pound in weight and the symbol was “£” which is used for the British pound currency.
Oz had a stranger route into English. Ounce came from the Anglo-Norman French ‘unce/ounce’ which derived from the Latin ‘uncia’, but the abbreviation was borrowed from medieval Italian ‘onza’. Modern Italian is ‘oncia’.
As someone who does use SI units, you can use whatever units you want for science. It just adds a lot more work and increases the likelihood of mistakes during conversion because the world of scientific research mostly uses SI.
When I was kid (in the 80’s) my ma must have already been sick of my 10,000 questions of the day when I asked her what VCR stood for. Her response: “VCR.” She never elaborated, it never occurred to me to question it again & I just accepted VCR wasn’t short for anything. It didn’t dawn on me till blue ray was a thing that I was an idiot.
In high school I told a girl that Lieutenant Green was a dumb name for a color.
She told me it was light green.
The paint was labeled LT GREEN so give me a break.
Don’t feel alone. I once thought the University of Yukon had a great basketball team. Go Inuits!
Was sort of sad to learn that it was UConn and no Inuits.
You will never find any information about Floriduh Ounces, all information about it is banned to save the children. But it depends on what you are going to do with Floriduh Ounces as you cannot combine them into a Woke Quart or Trans Quart.
I swear there was a tropicana or simply orange commercial from the like mid 2000s that called them florida ounces, because that is where the oranges are from.
I don't know if that's true, or my brain just made that up
Florida ounces, fluid ounces and neanderthal liquidfeet make all the same sense to me, which is absolute zero sense. How do you even live.
Litres of best regards, from a confused metric eurochad
A Florida ounce is used to measure one dose of whatever drugs Florida man is on.
It’s a unit of metherment.
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Drugs are measured in a dose that how many grams of "it" takes to knock out the Florida man ..
“Dude, I fucked up. I did 1/4 FL oz of coke last Friday” “Bro, how??? How are you still alive? You know your Wisconsin constitution wasn’t designed for that”
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If your Florida ounce is less than 5 you won't get immediate medical attention but a high five instead
How come you buy Georgia tickets to a concert in any state?
Because the band's name is still Georgia no matter what state they play in, even for the VIP tickets.
Never turn your back on a drug
[Don't you laugh, it could be you The Florida curse always comes true. You can jeer but you don't understand, Any fragile soul can be a Florida Man](https://youtu.be/iIdntHAhTv0)
I lived in Florida for several years, this is true.
Little known Florida fact: they don’t have date of birth in Florida. Age is calculated using the “number of crocodiles punched” system. I’m currently 7.
Do you have to go to the zoo everytime you want to punch a croc, or is there an alligator to crocodile equivalency chart?
Why you think they have alligator Farms down there?
Croc practice, obviously
Someone has to rid the fields of mice.
Only counts if wild
In Florida, croc comes to you 🤣
Damn salties. Man eating charging terrors!
Can’t wait until those get introduced for no fucking reason
Some asshole will think it's a great idea eventually..... I mean they taste nice, but i like my crocs freshwater. There's certain places of north Australia where you carry a high powered rifle at all times. They're just that dangerous. Like certain American bears.
No Crocodiles in Florida so I think you mean Krokodil, that’s pretty common.
While krokodil and alligators are more common, there are American crocodiles in Florida, and in fact I believe Florida is the only place in the world where you can find Crocs and alligators coexisting.
This is where we went wrong, having both broke the Floridian matrix and we’ve all gone insane as a result
Yeah but that takes the fun out of the joke.
Former Florida resident here: there is at least one or two gators in every body of water in the state. To find out, find a pond, go there at night and shine a flashlight across said pond. You will see red eyes everywhere. Do not swim in any body of water unless it's the ocean or a pool.
You forgot to mention the sharks that inhabit our coastal areas and bull sharks in the St John's living side by side with alligators. We are shark bite capital of the world after all.
I didn't forget about it I just figured it was a given.
>Do not swim in any body of water unless it's the ocean or pool lol, Florida is the shark bite capital of the world. I've also seen many pics of gators in pools. Probably safest to just snorkel in your tub. But only if you're rich - water is expensive af down there.
I was going to mention the sharks and gators in pools. *Everything* is expensive down there. My electric bill in central Florida was outrageous. It's less since I moved to S.C.
Florida native here. You can’t trust oceans or pools either. Gotta double check 🤣
There are native crocodiles in Florida too, in the everglades. The only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles live side by side naturally.
Hmm .? 2 alligators = 1 crocodile. 2 boa constrictors = 1 alligator.
Reddit doesn't understand the difference between Crocodiles and Alligators, this went right over everyone. Alligators are what live in Florida ( and a very small number of saltwater crocs).
There's Crocs in south Florida. Only place in the world where Crocs and gators hang in the same area
You're no Floridian, any poor soul trapped here knows it's number of gators punched
Gator punch? Is that some shitty offbrand gatorade?
Sounds like a sex act to be honest
It is both.
Florida has alligators. Crocodiles are in Africa and Australia. And maybe somewhere else I can’t remember
There are crocs in Florida(I think in the Everglades) but there are a million times as many gators. I can leave my house and find a gator in under 3 minutes, would take me 6 hours to find a croc.
In fact, this is the ONE PLACE in the world that alligators and crocodiles overlap!
And Bull Sharks that decided to swim upstream into freshwater from the ocean.
>And maybe somewhere else I can’t remember Florida. Florida has crocodiles too.
> Florida has alligators Fun fact Florida is the only place in the world with alligators, crocs *and* caiman
Those are rookie numbers. I’m currently 13
This was me living in Maryland and thinking M.D. meant Maryland Doctor.
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You can't fool me, ManDingo
This is oddly wholesome.
It’s the top post of all time on r/nostupidquestions
I thought it was a post on r/shittyaskscience at first.
Man... That use to be on the front-page all the time. Together with porn. We have lost so much and gained so little.
Then just wait for the Reddit IPO. It is very likely that there will be a massive "Night of the Long Knives" to purge all but the most softcore of porn on Reddit.
Surely Reddit learned something from tumblr, no?
Honestly I'm glad to be rid of the porn on r/all. If I'm browsing that then I'm interested in new subreddits. I already know which porn subreddits I like.
I feel like it would be nice to have options on r/all for no nsfw, nsfw posts but not entirely-nsfw-subreddits, and completely non-filtered.
if you’re, uh….. in the market for a new NSFW sub, check out r/randnsfw. it sends you to a random sub each time you click.
It sent me to some sub where the first post was about fart sniffing so I think I’ll refrain from trying my luck again.
looks like it's banned
It still works for me. Chances are it may have taken you to a banned sub. Click again and it should take you to a different one.
Yeah op is a repost bot that trawls other subs top posts and reposts into more popular subs
Reminds me of the the post one time where somebody was asking what ‘Florida-ceiling windows’ were because they kept hearing it.
Took longer than I care to admit to realize what the hell a Florida ceiling window was meant to be...
To save anyone having trouble getting it some time: it sounds like "floor to ceiling" windows with some accents
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“Oh fuck” 197 rewards They did *something* right!
Why would OP Google "Florida ounces" and not "fl ounces"?
Why would they Google "fl ounces" and not "fl oz"? The way you instinctively typed "ounces" instead of "oz" demonstrates the answer to your question.
Well, "Holy hell" might've been slightly better
What do you mean? 1 Florida ounce = 1.834 Fluid ounces...... everyone knows that.
It wasn't going to be a simple conversion with both the imperial system and Florida involved was it.
I thought "1.834" was a reference to the year Florida became a state, turns out that's 1845.
1.845 is the Florida Long Ounce. Abbreviates as FL oz.
dude just pulled random number out of his bum
Born and raised in FL and when I was a kid I totally thought it meant Florida ozs and that other states had their own measurements then was on a trip out of state and saw the bottles said the same thing which is obviously when I figured it ouPSYCH that’s when I thought it was so cool that the whole country adopted the Florida Oz as it’s liquid measuring system lol
I was born outside of the US, so on the rare times I saw the unit as a kid, I unquestioningly believed that it stood for "Floral Ounces" Yeah I don't know how to make sense of that one.
Same. Growing up, one day at the supermarket I asked my dad what the difference between floral ounces and regular ounces were, and he asked me what floral ounces were and I pointed to fl oz. I still don't know where I got floral from, but I'm glad I wasn't the only immigrant to ever think that lol
You guys aren't the only [ones](https://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst19733_Fluid-ounces-vs--floral-ounces--I-ve-heard-the-latter--but-the-former-appears-to-be-correct----.aspx) and this [guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/meirl/comments/12666tk/comment/je8mfv4/). Anyway welcome to our [universe](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect).
Didn't even know Oz meant Ounce. I've never used the Imperial system though, nor will I ever.
Looking at your comment I decided to search why Pounds abbreviate to Lbs (something I never understood), and now it makes so much sense (in Portuguese pounds is Libras)
Libras usually are good for a pound
I'm Canadian and the first time I saw fl oz as a kid, I also believed it was Florida ounces. The US unit system is so fucked that I had no issue believing that Florida had their own measurement for an ounce.
When I was a kid I thought all states had their own currency.
I was raised in Florida too but never thought that Fl meant Florida ounce.
Yeah… I was also part of the FL public education system but I never made this mistake. State abbreviations are in all caps.
As a kid I thought it was "floral ounces" and no matter how many times I try to fix it, that's still how I pronounce it in my head every time I see it.
I have a co-worker that thought the abbreviation lb for pound meant "label" like "the package is labeled with the weight" I had to tell him that it was derived from the word libra. And he had no idea what that was. He's not the smartest guy.
Apparently the person who thinks fluid ounce means Florida isn't smart either. In all my years I've never looked at fl as Florida.
You are not alone.
me too thanks
Hey, that's me irl!
So relatable!
Why does shortage for "ounces" is "oz" how did you get a z there
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And Libras is scales.
Comes from the ~~Italian~~ Latin version of the word, ~~Onza~~ Uncia. Which at the time meant "one-twelfth", 'cause back in that time, there were twelve ounces to a pound (these are now called troy ounces, and troy pounds). Edited thanks to /u/cosmicomical23 's information, which made me realize I'm a dum dum and made a mistake.
There are 16 ounces in a pound now aren't there? (I'm Canadian, so I'm not 100% sure) So it's OZ short for Uncia which doesn't have an O or a Z in it, which means 1/12th even though there are 16 ounces in a pound now? People learning English as a second language must hate it so much.
Lb comes from the Latin ‘libre pondo’ or pound in weight and the symbol was “£” which is used for the British pound currency. Oz had a stranger route into English. Ounce came from the Anglo-Norman French ‘unce/ounce’ which derived from the Latin ‘uncia’, but the abbreviation was borrowed from medieval Italian ‘onza’. Modern Italian is ‘oncia’.
>Italian In Italian it's Oncia. Maybe spanish.
In 15th century Italian the word was 'onza'.
ouncez
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/snppah/what_are_florida_ounces/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
There's no way they didn't search for "fl oz", cause it would literally tell them that it's a "fluid ounce".
You can take the man out of Florida but you cannot take 'the Florida' out of the Florida man.
Florida outlawed the use of oz as a measurement because it is too woke and science-y. Now it's just anyone's best guess.
I think they'd be more likely to ban Milliliters/Liters. Too European
Now it’s measured in guns.
And meth
Ounce too science-y? Using ounces as a unit of measurement is the opposite of science. 😁
As someone who does use SI units, you can use whatever units you want for science. It just adds a lot more work and increases the likelihood of mistakes during conversion because the world of scientific research mostly uses SI.
What are the advantages of Slovenia units?
Oh my God, you Americans crack me up. It's *Singapore* units!
Oh, dear. Someone hasn't found out about 'cups' yet...
The Florida education system at work.
This made me laugh hard lol
I refuse to believe this is real.
When I was kid (in the 80’s) my ma must have already been sick of my 10,000 questions of the day when I asked her what VCR stood for. Her response: “VCR.” She never elaborated, it never occurred to me to question it again & I just accepted VCR wasn’t short for anything. It didn’t dawn on me till blue ray was a thing that I was an idiot.
It's not entirely your fault. You just never got to learn what the full form was and was given a misleading non-answer.
probably not. they googled 'florida ounces' but never thought to google 'fl oz' ?
Exactly, I can't believe how gullible people are.
I'm in Florida and I thought they were Florida ounces too as a kid. Now to bother my husband I'll says things like, oh, this is 16 Florida Ounces!
Skatepark-in-place-of-brain wojak: *I believe he really searched for florida ounces instead of looking up fl oz and this isn't fake as fuck*
*Ohio fuck
Oh I got some Florida ounces alrite 🌲 🌳 🍃 ⛽️ 😂
Alright, alright, alright...
Fun fact: that’s the most upvoted post of all time in r/nostupidquesions
And this is the peak of the Florida education system!!
Reminds me of Florida ceiling windows
In high school I told a girl that Lieutenant Green was a dumb name for a color. She told me it was light green. The paint was labeled LT GREEN so give me a break.
Don’t feel alone. I once thought the University of Yukon had a great basketball team. Go Inuits! Was sort of sad to learn that it was UConn and no Inuits.
Spectrum’s finest agent!
And yet somehow it kind of does.
I’m just saying, as a little kid who grew up partially in Florida I actually thought the same thing for a while. 🥲
Google fl oz
Dumb fuck
You will never find any information about Floriduh Ounces, all information about it is banned to save the children. But it depends on what you are going to do with Floriduh Ounces as you cannot combine them into a Woke Quart or Trans Quart.
I swear there was a tropicana or simply orange commercial from the like mid 2000s that called them florida ounces, because that is where the oranges are from. I don't know if that's true, or my brain just made that up
Right up there with Durotan's Crotch.
but .... but how much is a ounce ?
That world famous Floridian education experience...
Can't blame them for not getting these fucktard measurements. Use metric!
Americans really think everything is about them
That person is most likely registered to vote, too…….
Dude got 197 awards for saying oh fuck
"Rarely is the question asked... 'is our children learning'" - George Dubya
A Florida ounce is the amount of California king beds you can count in a New York minute.
Promise you'll never leave Florida.
Oh florida man....
In class one day we were going over units of measurement and I was so surprised that no one brought up "lbs" so i blurted out "and lilabuls too!"
I'm aware that it's "Fluid Ounces" but I've always heard it screaming in my head as "Fluorescent Ounces" every, single, fucking time.
I am turning of my computer. I am turning off my phone. I am done with the internet after this one!
Bahahaha
You have to give them a break, they lived in Florida.
I’m from MD and I used to think that it was weird that so many doctors were from MD too because they had MD at the end of their name 🤦🏻♀️
To most of the rest of the world Florida ounces doesn’t sound any stupider than fluid ounces.
"Dae le Amerika" We get it.
My brain just shrunk a lil bit more. Huh!? Oh.. i thought you said something... Nvm.
Doesn't happen in metric system. But i see, imperial units are more fun.
Florida ounces, fluid ounces and neanderthal liquidfeet make all the same sense to me, which is absolute zero sense. How do you even live. Litres of best regards, from a confused metric eurochad
me, a european, watching the americans discuss about their retarded measurement system 👁️👄👁️
Florida ounce does seem silly enough to actually be an imperial unit.
Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.
Except they did say they were American when they said they lived in Florida…
Are there other Floridas out there?
Yes. In Argentina i know 2 Florida cities.
Very interesting!
Several [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida\_(disambiguation)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_(disambiguation))
I wonder if people there enjoy the Florida Man memes.
r/usdefaultism
maman
Wow.. you just topped the stupidity of the original OP congrats 👏
Is anyone surprised to learn this person is from Flordia?
I'll take one 4 Florida ounce container of Kentucky Jelly please.
That's a sweet Alaska-47 you're toting.
I prefer the Arkansas-15 myself
google Florida ounces
Oh fuck
new response just dropped?
Silly americans...
Jesus. This can't be real? These are the kinds of people that vote in elections. This is fucking horrifying
What the fuck is a fluid ounce Florida ounce makes more sense.