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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Actual poster from 1917 that made me laugh. A lot.

Also, those motherfuckers are measuring the weight of those balls in kilograms, aren't they?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

uncle sam you dense motherfucker go to SCHOOL

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (21 children)

Ugh, who wants to change to a base-10 system when we keep what ever we have now?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The metric system is a threat to our way of life - Kyle

[–] [email protected] 100 points 3 months ago (1 children)

1917 shitpost with obstinate opinions held to this day. Brilliant!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (16 children)

I don't think anyone believes the current system to be better, rather too much of a pain to replace. Americans really dislike learning and being inconvenienced.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Hundreds of millions of people learned the new units when their countries switched.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (21 children)

Americans really dislike learning and being inconvenienced.

it's worse than that-- we have gallons of milk, but liters of soda. we drive in mph, but run in 5K. science and medicine weights are grams, but recipes call for ounces. want to fix an american car--hope you have both metric and "standard" wrenches

more like we'd rather stay with the stupidness and inconvenience we know rather than change anything, no matter how much better it would be

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

All I can say is that the metric system was predominantly taught in my American school experience, with US units mainly limited to math class. The only thing that sucked about using metric in science class is the short unit we had where we needed to convert measurements between metric and US, which I think was arguably the point.

It's corporations, really, that seem to insist on having their products and tools still defaulting to US customary units, and I can't fathom why. Even when you go abroad and try to buy a TV, they're all still labeled in inches, which boggles my mind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's corporations, really, that seem to insist on having their products and tools still defaulting to US customary units...

I am no corporate fan, but this one is not on them. They already sell the same products in metric everywhere else. If the US switched to metric, most corporations would be able to switch overnight.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I don't think anyone believes the current system to be better,

Check our ShitAmericansSay (on Reddit, ew) and you'll find plenty who argue that metric is worse.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Although, to be fair, British people say that too, especially when Britain joined the EU. "You mean I have to stop measuring the produce I sell in pounds and ounces?!"

And, of course, they still use MPH. I imagine there would be a massive uproar if that got changed.

British have gone much further with metrification than the U.S. but there's still way too much resistance. And some of it is very silly indeed- weighing yourself in stone, which is a rather arbitrary 14 pounds.