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No, it’s because when we tried to incorporate the metric system the official weights and measurements that were being shipped over got stolen by pirates. And the US went “well I guess it wasn’t meant to be”
"We can send you another shipment."
"No, no. Forget it. We'll just stick with the old system."
"Are you sure? It's really no trouble."
"Nah, fuck it. This metric thing is probably just a fad anyway."
That's actually why we were almost 2nd to adopt it. But seriously no one cares. In my daily life the only difference is I have two sets of wrenchs and when a need two 1/2" open end wrenchs one says 13mm.
France has historically been a super close ally of the USA since it's inception and remains a pretty close partner in NATO although since the Second World War and the founding of Israel the G7 and UK/FR/USA have been super tight knit.
I mean there was that whole thing where they essentially blackmail the U.S into getting involved in Vietnam by saying if we didn't help them hold on to their former colony they would ask Russia for help and vote with them during the Cold war so not great relations there
Actually microwave is defined as waves with a wavelength between 1mm and 30cm which is the equivalent of between 1000 and 300,000 MHz. These boundaries are of course arbitrary and not even constant, but when they are defined they are defined on scale that converts to metric. 30cm (the upper limit typically) just happens to close to one foot.
Yes that's the point, if you wanted to convert the wavelength of a microwave from metric to imperial you'd be starting from 1 foot and going down to 1/25th of an inch. So the fraction in the meme is completely meaningless and ruins the joke.
Especially because I’m not sure what people mean when they say we don’t use the metric system. My 9 mm and weed, which is measured in grams, are confused
I mean… we absolutely don’t use the metric system though. It’s not our fault. We know what we were raised to know, but your 9mm and dime bag doesn’t trump the fact that your height, the temperature outside, the distance to your mum’s house… that’s all expressed in units that make very little sense.
Height is the one thing that's actuality easier in the imperial, though.
If I want to be precise AND concise, saying 6 ft, 1 inch rolls off the tongue a lot quicker than 1.854 meters or 185.4 cm.
If you add a decimal point to the 185 then yeah but you didn’t do the same for the ft-inch thing which makes this a bit misleading. One eight five vs six foot one
What's hilarious to me is that they're both just systems of measurement. Neither of them is inherently superior.
You really only need to look at the history of the "controversy" to see how utterly stupid it all is.
You just don’t know how clever the metric system is.
It’s not just some arbitrary system of measurement.
Everything works together, and everything works off of “100”.
Water freezes at zero°, and boils at 100°. That makes a lot more sense than 32° and 212°.
A kilometer is 1000 meters. That makes a lot more sense than a mile being 5280 feet.
A liter of water weighs exactly one kilogram. Nothing in the imperial system has that uniformity. The imperial system is arbitrary. The metric system isn’t. There’s a reason all but two countries use the metric system.
The metric system may be better designed (powers of ten everywhere) but it's no less arbitrary. Why do we set the 0 and 100 point to the temperatures at which water changes state, that's an arbitrary decision. Same with a litre of water being a kilogram. Why not have a litre of water weigh a single gram? Both systems are definitely arbitrary.
Plus, if one looks at the history of the Celsius vs. Fahrenheit "controversy," it's literally the same as the arguments over imperial vs. metric.
I've got a great article about that if you're interested.
Bro no one says 185.4. at max you say 185 and a half or point five. That's like saying metric is better because 180cm rolls of the tongue better than 5ft 8.67 inches.
It's still simpler numbers to keep track of in a clear, concise way for 1 particular type of measurement.
It's the same difference s measuring temperature. On one scale, the Celsius scale is better. At a different scale, the Kelvin system is more appropriate.
Why should distance be any different? At scales of human height, it's a more appropriate system. Doesn't work as well for larger scales, though
I mean I don't think there is much of a difference. Maybe it's very slightly more convenient. You are writing/saying one fewer digit if the number of inches is <10
Barely anyone else I know, but the meme chose not to specify Americans. It looks like the intent was to make fun of the system rather than a group of people that use it.
Even so it's only making fun of a specific subgroup of Americans, the ones that defend imperial tooth and nail. AmericaBad is full of humourless people who think nothing Americans do can ever be criticised
Actually after 64ths we go to decimal inch
Heck, in all machining we don't like fractional inch. Anything measure under 1 inch is listed in thousandths. Then tenths (short for ten-thousandths, not actual tenths). Then in tens of millionths (yes, we skip hundred-thousandths). After that is NIST territory and is a level of precision that takes serious training to comprehend.
When I hear ruler I think of something shorter than a meter. Most rulers in the States are only 12 inches, which means their metric side has only 30 cm.
Let's say you're hanging curtains and you have two rod brackets that you have to space evenly to distribute the weight. If you have a 2m window, you have to round to 66 cm from either end. If you have a 6 ft window, then you put one bracket 2 ft from either end. It's not a big deal, but it's still something base 12 has over base 10.
33.3cm. What's hard about that? Gives you a 1mm margin of error which most people will have trouble noticing with their naked eye. Meanwhile, inches are divided into 1/16ths for some reason.
My only beef with this is that the micro prefix means 1/1000000, and the wavelength for the microwave band is 1m to 1mm. Where is 1/2097152 coming from?
Assuming 25000 micrometers to an inch and dividing by 12 instead of multiplying, you get 2083 micrometers per foot. So, with some weird rounding, a calculation error, and some good ol prefix confusion I could see it.
I think whoever made the meme just typed a random number not expecting anyone to do a calculation. Which is understandable because it's a meme and the point gets across
The original meme wasn't against imperial system, it's against people think imperial system is better... I think he got called out hence made it against America
Nah. I'll take my Imperial please. I get to use my brain a lot more. What gets frustrating is working on a car and both systems are in play, *randomly.*
🤷🏿♂️ I really don't care what others think. Im mainly concerned with my contentedness and my happiness and Metric doesn't do this for me. 🤷🏿♂️ Imagine not being an American and caring this much about it.
No, imperial was originally decided like this: 1 inch= distance between the kings knuckles, 1 foot= length of kings foot, 1 yard= distance between tip of kings nose and fingertips of his outstretched arm.
most measurements have an exact conversion not an approximation so there was def a little thought put into correlating the two. also why the fuck is this topic posted daily?
A mile was the distance a king could be walking while continuously drinking mead from a goat's skin. The knot was actually the name of a famous race dog that....
No I mean in current day, metrics are based on unchanging constants of the universe, at least the meter is, and then because the foot isn't based on that it's based on the meter, so one foot is a specific amount of meter
Wdym? They defined the speed of light using the meter, and then because the speed of light is constant in the vacuum of space they decided to instead define the meter with the speed of light.
Which has literally nothing to do with the imperial system. They're two separate systems. How one is changed and/or refined has nothing to do with the other in any way.
They're only interchangeable because they measure the same things. It's ultimately just two different ways of saying the same thing, and neither is any better than the other.
The American standard units (not imperial, those are slightly different) Is defined by the metric system, EG. the inch is defined as so many mm and so forth.
So really the standard units we use are just goofy metric units.
Metric system and imperial system are good for different things.
As a Canadian, on paper we use metric, but in practice we use both, as we do border the US.
Ive used miles, inches, pounds and feet just as much as I’ve used kilometres, centimetres and metres.
They’re both fine, don’t know why this is a war.
What's the difference anyway? A number is a number, they all add up the same. Metric vs Standard is one of the weirdest matchups in history. What a strange thing to fanboy over.
As a regular user of r/americabad, some of the posts there are a bit sensitive. Some jokes are just lighthearted and aren't meant to be genuine. This is one of them.
Sure, the hole is funny. If you want to know why Americans don't use the metric system, it's because the imperial system is composed of highly composite numbers. Meaning, the imperial system is much more useful for humans in daily life. That's it.
Why do you guys always skip deci- and deca-? I’ve never heard of a deca- anything and the only time I hear deci- used is with decibels, which is apparently 1/10 of a bel.
Euros when they need to cut a piece of wood at 3.234375cm
If you wanna talk about a ridiculous string of numbers. 10 is actually a terrible number. 16 is way better. Fractions are beautiful 😍
As an American engineer who had to learn using imperial, I find this hilarious. I still cringe at the thought of having to calculate mass using “slugs”.
Let’s all remember one thing about the bri’ish when they make fun of us for the imperial system. They also use it. They mix it in with all of their shit lol. They use feet to measure a persons height, to measure road distances, and vehicle speeds. But oh. ThE iMpErIaL sYsTeM iS sTuPiD. The way they use it is dumber than how we use it lmao
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The metric system was invented in France. That’s literally the only reason why Americans don’t want anything to do with it
No, it’s because when we tried to incorporate the metric system the official weights and measurements that were being shipped over got stolen by pirates. And the US went “well I guess it wasn’t meant to be”
Not Pirates British Privateers The fucking King of England denied us the Metric system
Oh wow, England ruining everything nice in the world, what a surprise.
We knew were drifting into irrelevance, might as well give ourselves something to tease you lot about in the future as we sank
Classic British pettiness
Brits arguably use the systems in an even more convoluted way.
"We can send you another shipment." "No, no. Forget it. We'll just stick with the old system." "Are you sure? It's really no trouble." "Nah, fuck it. This metric thing is probably just a fad anyway."
Apparently at the time were weren't even universally on the imperial system yet; new york still used the Dutch system.
And we were allied with France at the time, who were sending the reference weights to us.
That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen So it would seem *Jack Sparrow sails away on a giant set of scales*
sails away in a ship built with bolts my sockets juuuuust don't quite fit.
They fit if you hammer them on hard enough!
British Privateers, actually Edit: ah someone already said that
Who need those centimeters and shot when you can just shove your fucking foot on the table to measure a wood plank
YARRRR our pleasure boyos!! WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER ANYWAY! ARR KA KA KA KA KA 🏴☠️
I was about to say, pretty sure it had something to do with pirates.
We use it all the time for shit that actually matters. Lol
Shit that actually meters even
🥁
I would smile at that but I suppose it's more fitting to skilometer
Boooooooo ;)
I can't hear you over my .308 and .45 going XXXX FPS while I drive my lifted Ford F250 going 95mph over a family of 4 🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Can you convert the family of 4 to metric, so I get a better feel of how many that is?
18 Russian soldiers with inadequate armaments
Dear God...
Dorgam lirnbrols
That's actually why we were almost 2nd to adopt it. But seriously no one cares. In my daily life the only difference is I have two sets of wrenchs and when a need two 1/2" open end wrenchs one says 13mm.
France has historically been a super close ally of the USA since it's inception and remains a pretty close partner in NATO although since the Second World War and the founding of Israel the G7 and UK/FR/USA have been super tight knit.
God, just when I was starting to like the metric system. Thanks for saving me
Fr%nce??? I'm proud to be American more than ever. Yall are using the "franch" system and claim it to be superior..... you all lose
France made you win the independence war against britain
Yeah I know it! I'm just being goofy
oh ok lmao
I mean, france was also partly responsible for the existance of the US, is that why they are so divided with everything?
Ironic isn’t it?
Given that they gave us the Statue of Liberty we hail as a symbol of our freedom, yeah
Yes, because relationships between countries are static and never change over the course of 100s of years.
France and the US have been in mostly good relations since the 1700s
Yeah it's just the citizens that don't like the French. I blame the Iraq war.
I blame the French for being such insufferable douches.
I mean there was that whole thing where they essentially blackmail the U.S into getting involved in Vietnam by saying if we didn't help them hold on to their former colony they would ask Russia for help and vote with them during the Cold war so not great relations there
France has been an ally of the United States since the literal genesis of the United States.
France and the US have been in mostly good relations since the 1700s
Right up until freedom fries
That wasn't done out of anti France sentiment.
Yes, that is what I was referring to.
Copperic?
Didnt bother them when they helped against the bri*ish
We’d still be the colonies if it weren’t for France
Why, half our words are french
Sorry if I’m stupid, but weren’t French people historically the enemies of England ? Why would they hate them ?
Ah, No wonder it took so long for the UK to adopt it.
so fr*nch (🤢) bad?
> The metric system was invented in France I'd rather have my *Freedom* fries, thank you very much.
It’s funny because microwaves have literally nothing to do with the metric micron or “micrometer”
In fact, a microwave has a wavelength starting at ~1 foot
I do love the warm foot box
Actually microwave is defined as waves with a wavelength between 1mm and 30cm which is the equivalent of between 1000 and 300,000 MHz. These boundaries are of course arbitrary and not even constant, but when they are defined they are defined on scale that converts to metric. 30cm (the upper limit typically) just happens to close to one foot.
Yes that's the point, if you wanted to convert the wavelength of a microwave from metric to imperial you'd be starting from 1 foot and going down to 1/25th of an inch. So the fraction in the meme is completely meaningless and ruins the joke.
Oh yeah, a micrometer, that thing to measure down to the thou (1/1000th of an inch)
Yeah it’s decently good, it’s describing an absurd scenario that would never happen and doesn’t even mention americans, I think OP is overreacting
Especially because I’m not sure what people mean when they say we don’t use the metric system. My 9 mm and weed, which is measured in grams, are confused
MURICA RAHHHHHH 🔫🔫🔫🔫🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
I mean… we absolutely don’t use the metric system though. It’s not our fault. We know what we were raised to know, but your 9mm and dime bag doesn’t trump the fact that your height, the temperature outside, the distance to your mum’s house… that’s all expressed in units that make very little sense.
Height is the one thing that's actuality easier in the imperial, though. If I want to be precise AND concise, saying 6 ft, 1 inch rolls off the tongue a lot quicker than 1.854 meters or 185.4 cm.
If you add a decimal point to the 185 then yeah but you didn’t do the same for the ft-inch thing which makes this a bit misleading. One eight five vs six foot one
What's hilarious to me is that they're both just systems of measurement. Neither of them is inherently superior. You really only need to look at the history of the "controversy" to see how utterly stupid it all is.
I thought we had pretty well concluded that counting in base ten is inherently superior?
You just don’t know how clever the metric system is. It’s not just some arbitrary system of measurement. Everything works together, and everything works off of “100”. Water freezes at zero°, and boils at 100°. That makes a lot more sense than 32° and 212°. A kilometer is 1000 meters. That makes a lot more sense than a mile being 5280 feet. A liter of water weighs exactly one kilogram. Nothing in the imperial system has that uniformity. The imperial system is arbitrary. The metric system isn’t. There’s a reason all but two countries use the metric system.
The metric system may be better designed (powers of ten everywhere) but it's no less arbitrary. Why do we set the 0 and 100 point to the temperatures at which water changes state, that's an arbitrary decision. Same with a litre of water being a kilogram. Why not have a litre of water weigh a single gram? Both systems are definitely arbitrary.
Plus, if one looks at the history of the Celsius vs. Fahrenheit "controversy," it's literally the same as the arguments over imperial vs. metric. I've got a great article about that if you're interested.
Bro no one says 185.4. at max you say 185 and a half or point five. That's like saying metric is better because 180cm rolls of the tongue better than 5ft 8.67 inches.
It's still simpler numbers to keep track of in a clear, concise way for 1 particular type of measurement. It's the same difference s measuring temperature. On one scale, the Celsius scale is better. At a different scale, the Kelvin system is more appropriate. Why should distance be any different? At scales of human height, it's a more appropriate system. Doesn't work as well for larger scales, though
I mean I don't think there is much of a difference. Maybe it's very slightly more convenient. You are writing/saying one fewer digit if the number of inches is <10
Cope
With what exactly? It's a different system of measurement. Not some world changing crisis.
Who else uses imperial system? I doubt the op was talking about Iberians or Burmese
Barely anyone else I know, but the meme chose not to specify Americans. It looks like the intent was to make fun of the system rather than a group of people that use it.
Even so it's only making fun of a specific subgroup of Americans, the ones that defend imperial tooth and nail. AmericaBad is full of humourless people who think nothing Americans do can ever be criticised
well, it's americabad, the whole point of that sub is overreact and cry about everything
They say Americans don’t use the metric system but I have a 9mm and 1/2 a gram in my pocket
Only 1/2? I got a full Kilo in my pocket
it is pretty funny, just like “skilometers” instead of “smiles” is funny
Deal, metric users when they have to use the French metric time system.
Seems like a good idea actually
I'm an American machinist. I fucking hate the imperial system. I hate having to look through the drawer searching for a 27/64th drill.
My dead father is screaming “put your tools back where they belong when you’re done!”
Your father probably didn't need drawers for all his metric, imperial, and numbered drills in jobber, stubby, and carbide varieties.
Cut those brownies into 3 inch by 4 centimeter rectangles, who's going to stop you?
No OP in that sub likes any meme they post
Isn't that the point...it's a BAD meme?
AmericaGood posts are a thing too. There's even a flair for it.
I find it hilarious but for americans i guess it is
The same goes for almost every sub that gets reposted here
Actually after 64ths we go to decimal inch Heck, in all machining we don't like fractional inch. Anything measure under 1 inch is listed in thousandths. Then tenths (short for ten-thousandths, not actual tenths). Then in tens of millionths (yes, we skip hundred-thousandths). After that is NIST territory and is a level of precision that takes serious training to comprehend.
Engineers love using fucking thous on a drawing for a damn door hinge if they can get away with it.
It's part of the manufacturing standard I had to relearn numbers those first weeks of college, might as well use it
Metric users when they try to divide 100 cm evenly into thirds
1/3m
Show me the 1/3m mark on your meterstick.
33.3 cm, u really dont need anything more accurate than that
do you mean ruler
When I hear ruler I think of something shorter than a meter. Most rulers in the States are only 12 inches, which means their metric side has only 30 cm.
Why tf would i want to divide into thirds, if our entire númber system is decimal? (Genuine question)
Let's say you're hanging curtains and you have two rod brackets that you have to space evenly to distribute the weight. If you have a 2m window, you have to round to 66 cm from either end. If you have a 6 ft window, then you put one bracket 2 ft from either end. It's not a big deal, but it's still something base 12 has over base 10.
33.3cm. What's hard about that? Gives you a 1mm margin of error which most people will have trouble noticing with their naked eye. Meanwhile, inches are divided into 1/16ths for some reason.
Powers of 2, my friend. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and then any smaller and you're dealing with decimal divisions.
Base 10 much better in almost every way
And yet our time system is base 12.
Okay, and the pope is Catholic! 👍
Imperial users when they try to divide 12 inches evenly into fifths
I'm still writing 3s
My only beef with this is that the micro prefix means 1/1000000, and the wavelength for the microwave band is 1m to 1mm. Where is 1/2097152 coming from?
Assuming 25000 micrometers to an inch and dividing by 12 instead of multiplying, you get 2083 micrometers per foot. So, with some weird rounding, a calculation error, and some good ol prefix confusion I could see it.
304,800 um per ft 25,400 *multiplied* by 12
That would be the aforementioned calculation error
ah. duh. yea i don’t think they actually did the math for this meme clearly
I'm guessing it's defined by it's relation to feet or inches and 1mm. Or rather, one micrometer, but I can't recall the code for the mu symbol.
If they converted, it would need to be an imperial unit 4-6 orders of magnitude larger than a meter.
I think whoever made the meme just typed a random number not expecting anyone to do a calculation. Which is understandable because it's a meme and the point gets across
My pickup is in imperial
God Bless.
I might be fucked because the first thing I thought of was the clip of that news lady pronouncing microwave like "meecrowavay"😭
OOP is getting a little too emotional XD
Wouldn’t it be 1/2097152nd-wave
This made me smile. I guess if I were British it would make me skilometer.
Brits still use miles, though. At least, sometimes
The government actually uses the metric system for most important measurements since 1991 when President Bush signed Executive Order 12770
"Metric system is better" mfs when they can't have foot fetishes and have to get hard to 0.305m
Ok, that one is pretty good 🤣
0.3048\* if you're gonna be specific do it right
Usually I would just round it down to a clean 30 cm but alright.
Better than the original meme.
The original meme wasn't against imperial system, it's against people think imperial system is better... I think he got called out hence made it against America
The problem is that the joke doesn’t make a lick of sense
Fuck that, we're gonna make up a new unit and call it the bagelwave.
I mean, it is. This isn't even an insult or an attack. Genuine joke
The funny thing is nobody even said it was about america. They assumed it was about them LMFAO
Petah
If its so great, where is you metric watch?
It is kinda funny
Because that shit is mad funny lmao
Watch „why the metric system is just better“ on YouTube
OOP is just insecure
iirc most of the comments agreed with you
Holy crap a r/memesopdidnotlike post that isnt defending racism or sexism?
Lmaoooo
Also a murican, I think the oop just doesn't know how to use either system.
Metric is better all day
Nah. I'll take my Imperial please. I get to use my brain a lot more. What gets frustrating is working on a car and both systems are in play, *randomly.*
its not uncommon when americans are presented with an objectively better and more efficient choice versus a more lazy one, and they take the latter.
🤷🏿♂️ I really don't care what others think. Im mainly concerned with my contentedness and my happiness and Metric doesn't do this for me. 🤷🏿♂️ Imagine not being an American and caring this much about it.
Imperial measurements are defined by metric measurements right?
No, imperial was originally decided like this: 1 inch= distance between the kings knuckles, 1 foot= length of kings foot, 1 yard= distance between tip of kings nose and fingertips of his outstretched arm.
most measurements have an exact conversion not an approximation so there was def a little thought put into correlating the two. also why the fuck is this topic posted daily?
A mile was the distance a king could be walking while continuously drinking mead from a goat's skin. The knot was actually the name of a famous race dog that....
No I mean in current day, metrics are based on unchanging constants of the universe, at least the meter is, and then because the foot isn't based on that it's based on the meter, so one foot is a specific amount of meter
That... Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Wdym? They defined the speed of light using the meter, and then because the speed of light is constant in the vacuum of space they decided to instead define the meter with the speed of light.
Which has literally nothing to do with the imperial system. They're two separate systems. How one is changed and/or refined has nothing to do with the other in any way. They're only interchangeable because they measure the same things. It's ultimately just two different ways of saying the same thing, and neither is any better than the other.
Originally? yes. Currently? Not anymore. 1 inch = 25.4mm 1 feet = 304.8mm edit: 1 OoM
Well, I hope in days of modern science, that there are more precise definitions than body part sizes of a dead king?
The American standard units (not imperial, those are slightly different) Is defined by the metric system, EG. the inch is defined as so many mm and so forth. So really the standard units we use are just goofy metric units.
Metric system and imperial system are good for different things. As a Canadian, on paper we use metric, but in practice we use both, as we do border the US. Ive used miles, inches, pounds and feet just as much as I’ve used kilometres, centimetres and metres. They’re both fine, don’t know why this is a war.
your saying their both fine because you use both of them and are use to them. this isnt really anything at all.
Mars Climate Orbiter has joined the fight 🔪
because arguing anything is the basis of reddit
Ok this was akshually funny.
What's the difference anyway? A number is a number, they all add up the same. Metric vs Standard is one of the weirdest matchups in history. What a strange thing to fanboy over.
As a regular user of r/americabad, some of the posts there are a bit sensitive. Some jokes are just lighthearted and aren't meant to be genuine. This is one of them.
Even the americans think the american system is bad, Like we hand the privilege to be able to call 5 steps about 5 meters
As an American, the metric is better but imagine having to re learn basically every unit of measurement you've ever known.
OOP smells of cope lol
America bad op IS the dumb American in question
As an american... I fucking hate the imperial system
dumb innocent joke gets taken seriously part 1048
*1/2,097,152nd
Bro its funny because the name is a metric unit
Sure, the hole is funny. If you want to know why Americans don't use the metric system, it's because the imperial system is composed of highly composite numbers. Meaning, the imperial system is much more useful for humans in daily life. That's it.
I might be dumb but shouldnt the factor include "254"? I inch is 2.54cm and 1/2.54 is 0.393.....
But but… Micro is the same across imperial and metric.
rare MOPDNL W :)
r/americabad is the worst sub ever
Why do you guys always skip deci- and deca-? I’ve never heard of a deca- anything and the only time I hear deci- used is with decibels, which is apparently 1/10 of a bel.
Euros when they need to cut a piece of wood at 3.234375cm If you wanna talk about a ridiculous string of numbers. 10 is actually a terrible number. 16 is way better. Fractions are beautiful 😍
That subreddit needs to figure out the difference between actual America bad and satire.
Dawg literally any unit of measurement is useful tho, like og op was just being stupid lmao.
1/4 > 1/3 Source: I'm an American
Imperial system is good for some things, like height or weight, but metric system is superior in everything else.
As an American engineer who had to learn using imperial, I find this hilarious. I still cringe at the thought of having to calculate mass using “slugs”.
It's literally just a silly pun, this isn't a fucking jab at an entire country. OOP gotta loosen up.
Let’s all remember one thing about the bri’ish when they make fun of us for the imperial system. They also use it. They mix it in with all of their shit lol. They use feet to measure a persons height, to measure road distances, and vehicle speeds. But oh. ThE iMpErIaL sYsTeM iS sTuPiD. The way they use it is dumber than how we use it lmao
r/yesamericabad
The microwave oven was invented by American engineers....
Okay 👍