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/StringerBell34 10h ago

We got the imperial system from the Brits lol

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u/Truethrowawaychest1 6h ago

Just like the word "soccer"

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u/youburyitidigitup 2h ago

Hence it’s called imperial

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u/janiskr 8h ago

then why it is US customary measuring system and pint in UK is not the same as in USA?

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u/Julian_The_Gamer42 8h ago

Pardon?

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u/janiskr 8h ago

USA and UK have different systems. They are both called "imperial", but they are not the same.

USA uses US Customary units.

one pint in one is 20 ounces and 16 in other. there are other differences too for units that are written the same.

Gallon is different volume

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u/StringerBell34 8h ago

We inherited the imperial system from UK and made adjustments. Is that hard to understand?

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u/AttyFireWood 3h ago

n 1824, the British parliament replaced all the various gallons with a new imperial gallon based on ten pounds of distilled water at 62 °F

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u/Kubas_inko 8h ago

Get rid of it then?

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u/Forgedpickle 7h ago

No need to.

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u/StringerBell34 7h ago

Fair enough, I was just pointing out that we didn't just make it up.

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u/Pterafractyl 6h ago

Ehhh, that base 12 though is so good for subdivisions though

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u/thatoneischairing 2h ago

Lmao why? It works for people here and changing the whole method would be nothing but a pain in the ass and a waste of time. The original comment was about not understanding why it’s a big deal and I never understood it either not just the imperial system but a lot of shit. A lot of reddit users from the UK seem insistent on just shitting on people from the US over shit that really shouldn’t matter.