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72 Funny Posts That Prove Americans Will Use Anything But The Metric System (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 3 hours ago
The USA didn't invent the Imperial measurements. We've just kept them while others changed.
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#2
The Sauce Kitten Has Grew
#3
Imagine Some 9mm Rounds
#4
Calibrated Banana
#5
IDK If This Has Been Posted Here Before Or Not But I Laughed
#6
Giraffe
ohjojo (you/your's) 4 hours ago
Top half or bottom half cut horizontal or sliced directly thru the middle vertically?
#7
?
#8
How To Measure Things Like A Canadian
Justanotherpanda 2 hours 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.....
#11
Now That's A Unit I Can Get Behind!
#13
Poster In My School
#14
The New River Gorge Bridge Is Obviously One Monument And Two Statues Tall
#15
Found This Masterpiece On Insta
#16
Snow Flamingo
#17
Iguanas Freezing Or Not Freezing
#19
Wind Speed
David Allan 2 hours ago
In the UK one of these would be Where the hell is my stupidly large back garden trampoline gone?
#20
City The Size Of A Junction
Flat_Alien 3 hours ago (edited)
Europeans build for people and Americans build for cars. In European Cities everything is in walking distance.
#21
Frightened Corgis For Scale
#22
How Many Metrics Is This
#26
Found On Facebook
#27
Traffic Cone
#28
My Phone Is Exactly One Octave Long
#30
Celsius Just Isn’t Logical…
#31
Literally What
#33
An Inch Is An Inch, Maybe?!?
Dont listen to me 1 hour ago
An inch is 2.54 cm so Cricut looks right, that tape measure looks old & crinkly. But what the h**l is that wooden ruler measuring??
#35
A 3 Year Old Tadpole That Didn't Turn Into A Frog. Banana On Left For Scale
#36
Asian Woman
#37
There Is No K In Thousand
random_froggg (she/they 86/47) 4 hours 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
#38
2.8 Million Ten-Year-Olds
#39
The Mcdonals System
#40
I Don't Think This Arm Has Been Calibrated
Annik Perrot 2 hours 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.
#41
Yes
Space Invader 4 hours ago
But only if an apple weighs as much as an orange. But I wouldn't know for sure, since one cannot compare them...
#42
Anything But Metric
#43
886 Cans Of Spam
#45
Ariana Grande
#46
See You In A Shrek
#48
Conversion So Difficult, Nobody Knows The Right Value
#49
800 Hamburgers
#51
Deer As A Volume
Space Invader 4 hours ago
How much is that in Inattentive Husbands? Just asking for a friend...
#52
Of Course My Favourite Measurement System "American"
#53
I Think This Deserves To Be In Here Too
#54
Bigger Than A School Bus And Eyes The Size Of A Large Pizza
#56
I'm Not Surprised
WindySwede 4 hours ago (edited)
Drogs and NASA? And only that the inch is defined by the meter? 1" = 25,4mm..
#57
Apples Are Better Than Centimeters
#58
Banana For Scale
#60
I’m 5 Chairs Long
Phantom Phoenix 2 hours 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
#61
This Banana The Size Of My Forearm
#62
But How Many Bananas?
Fellfromthemoon 37 minutes ago
A grown man weights about 180 pounds (according to the average mansize used in Mythbusters) and a baby is about 23 inch long; and I use metric (about 80 kg and 55 cm.)
#67
Exactly One Child
#72
What's A Stan?
random_froggg (she/they 86/47) 3 hours ago
Stanley maybe, the popular water jug/cup like hydroflask used to be.
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Fred L. 49 minutes ago
Back in my military days I was a unit of length, one Fred L. being 80cm.
Magnell 41 minutes ago
you either did your military service as a kid around 4-5 years or they have a special program for whatever they are correctly called these days
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Mel 2 hours 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. )
Fred L. 49 minutes ago
Back in my military days I was a unit of length, one Fred L. being 80cm.
Magnell 41 minutes ago
you either did your military service as a kid around 4-5 years or they have a special program for whatever they are correctly called these days
Load More Replies... Mel 2 hours 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. )
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