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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

British: Hey guys we developed this thing called the metric system

French: Are we a joke to you?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    French developed fries, they can't have also developed the metric system

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)
    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    The British invented imperial units and not metric. So cool post.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    British and Irish: yeh we use stone as a measurement of body weight what of it mate

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Americans being confused by stone is my favourite part of all the unit related arguments. This is how the rest of the world feels about your entire system of measurement! Have a taste of your own medicine!

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Um, ACU is a result of British Imperial.

    Brits still use Imperial in day-to-day conversations.

    Metric is still largely bound by human scale - Celsius is bound to water at earth pressures and temps. Meter is bound to earth circumference:

    one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the meridian

    Today it's defined as:

    the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 seconds

    Utter arbitrary nonsense to continue to use the yard and calling it by a different name.

    This whole meme is a joke fueled by hubris. At least Kelvin is tied to a universal constant.

    (I use both ACU and metric every day, they're simply different).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Ohh yeah? How many stones do you weigh?

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    One hamburger is around 3 thumbs.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They also taste as good as 800 hamburgers. 😋

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