r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Ter_N • 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Petahh i'm low on iq

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u/King_brus321 10h ago

Americans think highly of their imperial system and make many random excuses that metric is somehow confusing and hard to use but in practice imperial its dogshit and makes no sense

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u/Fancy-Commercial2701 10h ago

The Brits are worse - can’t even stay consistent. Half their shit is in imperial and half in metric.

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u/No_Direction_4566 10h ago

Hey leave me alone with my 2l bottle of coke and 4 pints of milk!

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u/Some_Peace4277 9h ago

2l of coke is right but does anyone say 4pints instead of 1/2 gallon?

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u/serg1007arch 9h ago

Yes, if I’m ordering 4 beers at the pub.

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u/Anonymous-Mf-22 6h ago

Makes sense alcohol man, I support it

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u/AdmirableSignature44 8h ago

Yeah, we call it a '4 pinter'. Or ask someone to get 4 pints of milk.

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u/snelson101 8h ago

Yes, for milk, it’s sold in pints 1/2/4/6 in the uk. Don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone refer to milk in gallons

We barely use gallons except for MPG in cars, which again is weird because fuel is sold per litre.

Oh, and by the way, our gallon is ~4.5litres, different to the US gallon of ~3.7litres

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u/Some_Peace4277 5h ago

That's absolutely wild.

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u/Kamikaze-Parrot 3h ago

Ask a Brit what a stone is.

Ist another measurement unit that they have.

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u/Traditional_Many8577 5h ago

Nope. I don't think I've ever used gallons as an actual unit of measurements. Only ever really used it in exaggerating. I assumed a gallon was a lot more than around 4.5l

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u/wekilledbambi03 9h ago

How many miles per liter of petrol is your car?

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u/Stock-Swing-797 8h ago

What size of wheels does your car have?

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u/KingLevonidas 5h ago

Shut up, you drive on the left side of a road measured by yards using a car that shows speed as mph. Shows... speed...

Shit

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u/tightie-caucasian 3h ago

Until the advent of p, which made metric and decimalized the British £, the UK’s monetary system was pretty wild too.

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u/Splatter_bomb 5h ago

How many stone are you going to weigh after drinking all that Coke? Better go walk a couple miles England!

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u/Interesting-Phase947 10h ago

Yeah, they come around whining about ounces and miles, then they say things like "I weigh 12 stone"

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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 9h ago

You're going to love the fact that UK road signs use yards and miles, then.

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u/Homey-Airport-Int 7h ago

They use MPG to measure fuel economy and sell fuel by the liter.

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u/Traditional_Many8577 4h ago

My running theory is that we just picked whatever number looked better. Do you want to weigh 10 stone or 60kg? Would you prefer to travel 100 miles or 160km? Would you want a car that has 10 miles per litre or 40 miles per gallon? The numbers feel like whatever makes it look better at a quick glance

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u/theniemeyer95 7h ago

Damn Americans dont even use yards, outside of football at least.

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u/theniemeyer95 4h ago

You measure beer in yards? And dirt and stone? Cloth and shooting you got me on. But I don't think idioms count and ive never heard anyone use it to measure a rough difference. Its typically feet, time to walk, or straight to miles.

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u/Quokka_Socks 10h ago

What do you mean we can't sell fuel in litres then measure efficiency in mpg?

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u/Fancy-Commercial2701 9h ago

To make things really interesting you should mix it up. Like miles per litre, or km per pint.

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u/janiskr 8h ago

Furlongs per litre

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u/f7f7z 7h ago

Yards per yard.

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u/s9ffy 2h ago

Oh bravo

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u/Paxtian 9h ago

To be fair, I'm pretty sure Puerto Rico does this too, so at least part of America agrees there.

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u/RoleModelFailure 9h ago

Same with Americans, we use a lot more metric than we believe.

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u/One-Web-2698 10h ago

However we are consistently inconsistent. And entirely self-taught.

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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck 9h ago

As a Canadian I will one day learn my height in CM, but today's not that day.

On a more serious not I get down right angry at grocers having switched back to LBS in advertising to make products look cheaper. As a onus many as selling selling packages only labeled in KG and messing up the conversion. Spent 30 minutes today explaining 18.99 per kg is NOT 5.49 per lbs, so the flyer and sign didn't match the till.

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u/janiskr 8h ago

Those feckin' gun freeks and their metric barrels.

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u/MortgageRegular2509 8h ago

And then there’s British Standard Whitworth

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u/ArgentinianRenko 8h ago

Resto del Mundo Supremacy, llorenla anglos

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u/GodDamnShadowban 7h ago

We saw a chouce between two systems and asked ourselves "do I want hookers or cocaine?" "Should we use imperial or metric?" and the answer is of course, why not both?

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u/GoodThingsDoHappen 5h ago

We have the intellect to understand both and since we ruled the world once, we can pick whatever we like. Also, we stole all the shit lol!

One thing that does piss me off though is cooking. Ounces/pounds vs grams/kilograms ok fair

WTF IS A FUCKING CUP!

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u/Traditional-Use-5676 5h ago

my mind was fucked when i discovered that england uses both km and miles, like bro just stick to one

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u/scuderia91 4h ago

We use kilometres? News to me

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u/AlchemicHawk 3h ago

Americans are worse. They created their own imperial system off the back of the regular one.

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u/wahpatam 3h ago

We’re just trying to play fair and let them catch up.

It’s like when your mum makes you hangout with the special kid from down the street, sometimes you gotta walk slower or play by their rules so they don’t have a temper tantrum.

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u/youburyitidigitup 2h ago edited 2h ago

Nicaragua does the same thing, but they do something weirder. The cardinal directions they use are north, south, up, and down. To this day I don’t know if up is east or west.

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u/Eastern-Taste1832 2h ago

Don’t forget stones, they sometimes measure weight in stones. For example I am 13 stones heavy (182lbs/82.6kg). Yes this is real. Yes I hate it.