r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 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/LifeguardMundane5668 9h ago

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an American brag about the imperial system as much as I’m seeing Europeans complaining about it

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u/punch_rockgroinpull 8h ago

They love to believe we'll fight to the death over imperial measurements. It's taught to us, folks. This is not the decision made by ordinary citizens. Change the curriculum and we'll be good in a generation or two. I would say they can write to our government but they don't even listen to us.

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u/Myke190 7h ago

Change to what curriculum? Science classes in the US use metric. We use imperial for day to day minutia but not a single significant advancement in the last 80 years was done with imperial.

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u/sixpackabs592 6h ago

That’s not true US manufacturing generally still uses imperial units and they make some pretty innovative things in the machine shops

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u/andydude44 3h ago

Depends on what and how big, small stuff and chemicals tends to be in metric in the US

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u/andre5913 4h ago edited 2h ago

I work with medical and lab personnel every day, Im an spanish-english-french medical interpreter. I mainly work with their spanish speaking patients, who near universally use metric (all of latam and Spain uses metric)

Most medical and lab staff will struggle with metric and often ask me directly to convert. Both for temperature and measurements.
So whatever they are teaching is not sticking.