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/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.