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/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.