Bro why not use the metric system?
Tuesday, 25 Mar 2025
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Maybe they just like feet? 🙄
Where meme
r/antimeme
We do…. We know both
Fun fact, America was going to switch to the metric system a couple hundred years ago, but the ships carrying the metric weights got hijacked by pirates, and after that we were basically like “fuck it we ball” wnd used Imperial instead
What on America is a kilometer 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸?
This is an oversimplification. Can’t speak for the other two, but here in the States we use both US Customary and Metric.
US customary units have been officially defined by the metric system since the Mendenhall Order in 1893. Your country is already metric.
Its kinda a weird thing this map. There are places that use both, canada for example uses whatever makes the most sense for what they are doing.
Outside temps that feel specific for the body? Thats metric
Temps in a machine that you need more specific numbers for? Thats gonna be imperial.
Want some liquid for baking, get out your imperial measurements, need a large amount, time to swap to metric. Once you go really big but its okay to be vague, then you go back to Imperial.
Distances/measurement flip flop as well.
A 2 measurement system based off need is peak and should be adopted
“Guys it’s funny because America is the odd one out” -OP
Personally I feel like both have uses in certain scenarios. For example for heat for water Celsius is better but for heat in humans (such as weather outside) fahrenheit is usually a better descriptor as it is tuned to the human body and not water.
2 American of Americans best friends coming right up
Prevents an invasion.
because some of us like feet!
I am so sick of this argument. I agree the metric system is great, but what if we run out of it? We need a standby system!
I like freedom
Stupid graphic. Why did you exclude UK?
I actually use both. It really just depends on what I’m doing.
Well the metric world has something in common with North Korea.
Never been on the moon.
Fun fact, 99% of those same countries that use metric would still rather use the imperial system for height and weight measurements
Contrarianism, elitism, and stubbornness
UK only half uses metric, the rest of their measurements are equal in abomination to the ones the US uses.
Come together as a species! We’ll learn the metric system and you’ll all learn English and together we’ll unite and thrive under a uninversal language and mathmatic system! Muwhahaha!
There are two kinds of countries in this world:
Those that use the metric system
And those that landed men on the moon
LOLz
Yes its a joke, don’t get too excited
MKS was used extensively
It would take hundreds millions of dollars for the US to switch to the metric system.. just think of just the road signs that use standard sized bolts ..
Now do a map of countries that put a man on the moon.
Now do countries that have landed a man on the moon.
If I see some content on the internet that not using metric system, I automatically dislike it. They has to obey us.