Yesterday the barista at my coffeeshop told me the code on the bathroom door was:

_"zero three twenty-eight hashtag"_

... and I had to suppress a reaction to them calling the pound sign a hashtag lest they know how incredibly old and nerdy I am.

https://www.europesays.com/1610118/ Trump’s trade war could hit Britain, warns Bank of England ratesetter #business #Conflicts #CostOfLivingCrisis #DowJonesIndustrialAverage #FTSE100 #geopolitics #GlobalEconomy #Pound #UKECONOMY #USContent

What do you call the symbol #

#Hashtag #NumberSign #Pound #Octothorpe #Poll #QoTD #QuestionOfTheDay

This is exactly why I have struggled to adapt my hashtagging practices to really work on Mastodon. “On top of all that, in-post hashtags feel thirsty. After a decade of Twitter and Instagram, I associate them firmly with spammers and #blessed clout-chasing thinkfluencers, #shoehorning that #pound #symbol into the #middle of #sentences to reach more #eyeballs.” https://www.theverge.com/23673125/mastodon-separate-tags-hashtag-navigation-accessibility

It makes no sense that #microwaves have you defrost things by tenths of a #pound so you have to convert 1/16 #units (ounces) to 1/10 units.