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72 Memes About Americans Measuring Everything Around The Weirdest - But Not Metric, 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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Calibrated Banana
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marianne eliza 1 minute ago
The USA didn't invent the Imperial measurements. We've just kept them while others changed.
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The Sauce Kitten Has Grew
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The New River Gorge Bridge Is Obviously One Monument And Two Statues Tall
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Now That's A Unit I Can Get Behind!
#10
Banana For Scale
#16
Frightened Corgis For Scale
#18
Traffic Cone
#23
My Phone Is Exactly One Octave Long
#27
See You In A Shrek
#28
A 3 Year Old Tadpole That Didn't Turn Into A Frog. Banana On Left For Scale
#31
How Many Metrics Is This
#32
There Is No K In Thousand
#33
Celsius Just Isn’t Logical…
#34
The Mcdonals System
#38
Yes
Space Invader 36 minutes ago
But only if an apple weighs as much as an orange. But I wouldn't know for sure, since one cannot compare them...
#43
Ariana Grande
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2.8 Million Ten-Year-Olds
#47
Deer As A Volume
Space Invader 28 minutes ago
How much is that in Inattentive Husbands? Just asking for a friend...
#48
Of Course My Favourite Measurement System "American"
#52
I'm Not Surprised
WindySwede 28 minutes ago (edited)
Drogs and NASA? And only that the inch is defined by the meter? 1" = 25,4mm..
#54
Banana For Scale
#71
What's A Stan?
random_froggg (she/they 86/47) 10 minutes ago
Stanley maybe, the popular water jug/cup like hydroflask used to be.
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