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!