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72 Funny Examples Of Americans Measuring Things In The Most Confusing Way (New Pics)
Four bananas deep, half the size of a giraffe and the weight of three apples... While the rest of us get by just fine using the good, old metric system, our friends in America are always daring to be different.
The International System of Units (SI) is a base-10 decimal system used by almost the entire planet. Think meters, centimeters, kilometers or grams. The US customary or imperial system, on the other hand, prefers to count in inches, feet, yards, miles, stones or sometimes even tomatoes. To 'simplify' matters, Americans have devised this clever trick: To remember how many feet there are in a mile, think of “five tomatoes” because it sounds like “five two eight oh.” Wait, what?
There's an entire online community dedicated to shining a light on the United States' strange way of measuring things. Anything But Metric is a laugh a minute, or a pint... or a potato. The posts prove that Americans will do anything to avoid using a system that's worked just fine for pretty much everyone else. Here are some perfect examples.
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#1
Found This Hilarious
marianne eliza 1 day ago
The USA didn't invent the Imperial measurements. We've just kept them while others changed.
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#2
Imagine Some 9mm Rounds
#6
The Sauce Kitten Has Grew
#7
IDK If This Has Been Posted Here Before Or Not But I Laughed
#8
Calibrated Banana
#9
Found On Facebook
#10
How To Measure Things Like A Canadian
Justanotherpanda 1 day ago
In all honesty, the weight thing, in the Netherlands we still use pounds for small weights, like a pound of cheese, but our pounds are exactly 500 grams.....
#12
Oh We Know. We Just Don't Care
Barking Squirrel 1 day ago
And will still choose the Imperial Hill to d!e on in every conversation.
#13
Poster In My School
#14
Banana For Scale
Bored Jellyfish 1 day ago
I sent a pic showing my kiddos that a snowbank at our house measured one doggo. They photoshopped in bananas. Apparently, my doggo is 4 bananas tall
#15
Wind Speed
David Allan 1 day ago
In the UK one of these would be Where the hell is my stupidly large back garden trampoline gone?
#16
'miles' Per Hours
#17
Iguanas Freezing Or Not Freezing
#18
Found This Masterpiece On Insta
#19
Looks Fun
#20
It’s One Philometer
#21
The New River Gorge Bridge Is Obviously One Monument And Two Statues Tall
Bonnie Blue Bird 1 day ago
Liberty is 151 feet (46 meters) without the base. Washington Monument is 555 feet (169 meters). New River Gorge bridge is 876 feet (267 meters). So, we'd need to add 30 to 34 bananas for this to be accurate.
#22
So Big
#24
Frightened Corgis For Scale
#25
A Pineapple
#26
Now That's A Unit I Can Get Behind!
#27
Even Canada Is To Blame!!
#28
My Phone Is Exactly One Octave Long
#29
Conversion So Difficult, Nobody Knows The Right Value
#30
Traffic Cone
#31
Literally What
#32
City The Size Of A Junction
Flat_Alien 1 day ago (edited)
Europeans build for people and Americans build for cars. In European Cities everything is in walking distance.
#33
This Banana The Size Of My Forearm
#34
See You In A Shrek
#35
How Many Metrics Is This
#36
The Mcdonals System
#37
Bigger Than A School Bus And Eyes The Size Of A Large Pizza
#38
Apples Are Better Than Centimeters
#39
Maximum Pdf Size
#40
A 3 Year Old Tadpole That Didn't Turn Into A Frog. Banana On Left For Scale
#41
2.8 Million Ten-Year-Olds
#42
Ariana Grande
#43
Half A Person
#44
Yes
Space Invader 1 day ago
But only if an apple weighs as much as an orange. But I wouldn't know for sure, since one cannot compare them...
#45
886 Cans Of Spam
#46
Gotta Borrow Her Dog
#47
Asian Woman
#48
There Is No K In Thousand
random_froggg (she/they 86/47) 1 day ago
Not a dumb question. I assume they're trying to say why is a K used to represent 1,000? For example. 1K, 10K, 100K
#49
Splat
#50
Celsius Just Isn’t Logical…
#51
New Unit Of Volume Dropped
Bonnie Blue Bird 1 day ago
If they don't move their cars, it will soon be 8 to 9 washing machines!
#52
Are These 2 Or 4 Slice Toasters?
#53
Canada
#54
A Toaster
#55
800 Hamburgers
#56
Deer As A Volume
#57
We May Need A New Unit Of Measurement Now
#58
Banana For Scale
#59
An Inch Is An Inch, Maybe?!?
#60
Anything But Metric
#61
Exactly One Child
#62
Of Course My Favourite Measurement System "American"
Annik Perrot 1 day ago
Conversations? Here in France we say conversion, and I thought it was the same in English, but I may be mistaken.
#63
I Think This Deserves To Be In Here Too
#64
I'm Not Surprised
Doug Moyer 1 day ago
Not true! We also use for 2 liter soda bottles. But not for 12 ounce soda cans. Or 16 ounce soda bottles.
#66
I Don't Think This Arm Has Been Calibrated
Annik Perrot 1 day ago
And that doesn't depend upon the size of your hand, of course.🙄 Between me with my small hands an my son with his big hands and long fingers, the results would be quite different.
#67
But How Many Bananas?
#68
The Calculator On My Computer Convert Distance To Airplanes
#69
From The BBC's Quiz About How Big 1 Trillion Is
#71
I’m 5 Chairs Long
Phantom Phoenix 1 day ago
This explains some sh¡t... 5" tall guy lies across 5 chairs, ignoring that he's leaving ½ chair width at both ends. Measures across the 5 chairs and gets 6" Makes the claim on Tinder that he's 6" tall. Goes on a date. 5.5" date wonders how she's taller than a 6" guy
#72
What's A Stan?
random_froggg (she/they 86/47) 1 day ago
Stanley maybe, the popular water jug/cup like hydroflask used to be.
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Mel 1 day ago
While I find US customary units and imperial units very confusing, especially when it comes to baking and cooking (I'm sorry, what the heck do you mean by 4 pints of cherry tomatoes? 2 sticks of butter? 1 cup of onion... ? 8 ounces of feta... ? My tomato paste and cheese don't come in cups either) - it's always easy to just shut up and convert the units either in your head or use the resources available you to do it. I appreciate the authors that take their time and use both measurements for their audience. (But I'll still laugh at bananas, corgis and football fields for scale. In a good way, I promise. )
Auntriarch 1 day ago
This was immense fun, largely due to some wacky Pandas entering into the spirit
Whiskers 18 hours ago (edited)
There obviously are many brilliant minds lurking amongst us Pandas! Thank you for those goofy comments! I actually LOLd several times ’til tears flowed down my cheekbones! 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you, my friends!🥰
Load More Replies... Bored Jellyfish 1 day ago
I’m disappointed the measurement of “yay big” was not included on this list.
Mel 1 day ago
While I find US customary units and imperial units very confusing, especially when it comes to baking and cooking (I'm sorry, what the heck do you mean by 4 pints of cherry tomatoes? 2 sticks of butter? 1 cup of onion... ? 8 ounces of feta... ? My tomato paste and cheese don't come in cups either) - it's always easy to just shut up and convert the units either in your head or use the resources available you to do it. I appreciate the authors that take their time and use both measurements for their audience. (But I'll still laugh at bananas, corgis and football fields for scale. In a good way, I promise. )
Auntriarch 1 day ago
This was immense fun, largely due to some wacky Pandas entering into the spirit
Whiskers 18 hours ago (edited)
There obviously are many brilliant minds lurking amongst us Pandas! Thank you for those goofy comments! I actually LOLd several times ’til tears flowed down my cheekbones! 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you, my friends!🥰
Load More Replies... Bored Jellyfish 1 day ago
I’m disappointed the measurement of “yay big” was not included on this list.
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