Sometimes people use the internet to think aloud and share their inner most thoughts, but along with this oversharing comes bored internet commenters armed with rapid-fire comebacks. Tumblr is the perfect site to witness some of the most entertaining internet back and forth exchanges. You might think you know where a thread is going, but in these examples you will see that things can take a turn with the push of a button. In some of these threads users chose to share witty fake facts, while others chose to troll the poster on a more personal level. Bored Panda has rounded up some hilarious Tumblr conversations that took a surprise twist. From the brutal to the random, don’t forget to upvote your favorites!
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Actually, 1 Mile started out as 'mille passus' Latin for '1000 paces" or 5000 Roman Feet. The measurement was adjusted to fit a specific monarch's foot much later on. The Roman mile also equals 8 furlongs which fits in with the fractional system much of the rest of imperial measurements are based on.
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As far as engineering and science are concerned, we largely have. Even with the imperial system, engineering calculations are always done in .001, or .0001 of an inch, we don't use fractions in design. When you think about it in the context of the construction trades, fractions of an inch make much more sense than millimeters. Most wood-frame or concrete construction doesn't need to be much more accurate than 1/8", and it's easier to do math with larger units.
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Why is no one getting this Joey reference?! It's the best!
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I was so confused with the tomato thing coz I pronounce it 'too-mah-toes'
As an American, I have started only using metric system in any way I could and it drives my friends nuts. I just tell them to look it up if it's too hard.
I use it, and I love explaining how they derived things like the mL, etc. Drives them wild.
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This little thing about America and not changing is so Silly. The metric system is the same way as the c**p we use. It is based off something. I obviously wish that we had converted long ago and my kids will grow up understand both. To act like it is something archaic is little overboard. It is a unit. Something logical made to allow understanding. My mile will work just as well as someone's meter or kilo. One of these days when we people have mastered travel to the stars we will look back at how weird it was we chose what a meter is.
America's measurement methods are weird, but we're used to it. It's pretty easy for me.
And England needs to lose the expensive welfare recipients they call the Royal Family and join the 21st century like the U.S.
the royal family brings more money to UK thx to goodies, events and stuff like that than it cost UK, do you know a single president who do that?
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Remembering when I converse with my American friends about weather. I was so scared when she said the temperature was 92° little did i know she's using farenheit. -_-
Lol. Agreed. Why do I have to live with this measurement system in America?
Lazy americans -_-' I can't get over the fact that they were given the chance to switch to Celsius too but were too lazy to learn another thing =_=
Most Americans know both Metric and Imperial because we use Metric in science class. We're not too "lazy" to learn the Metric system, it's just difficult to switch out a form of measurement that's so ingrained in our society.
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As an American I will agree that we have an incrediblely stupid system of measurement.
never trust a drunk mathematician, its hard to differentiate though
Why do Americans tend to stick to FPS standards??? There's an easier and less sophisticated method of converting units into power of 10 why not use it?
Yeah but a foot was taken from an actual foot length - a yard tip of the finger to tip of the nose. They're all people based.
Yeah, why 5280 feet in a mile? Why so ridiculously random? Even 5,000 would be weird and random.
Hey! It's to-may-toes, not to-mate-oes! (Also come on, you're making fun of like, a continent's worth of people's pronunciation). Not using the metric system is largely b******t, but shamefully I still like using imperial for people's heights, as it's easier to "categorize" (i.e. 4" is short 5" is relatively average, 6" tall, etc.)
Neither was the American system. It's hella more intricate than ya think.
The metric system does make more sense. But the reality is that we have two systems so it is good to know both since it isn't changing any time soon.
No, two countries out of hundreds have both. Everyone else moved out of the Middle Ages.
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therefore using elbows, feet, peanuts.. makes much more sense.
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Yeah! Those stupid tress making oxygen so we can breathe. It pretty unbelievable if you ask me.
Babies and mothers can swap haematopoietic stem stems and thus become chimerae of each other. Probably a good reason to look very carefully at potential mothers-in-law before committing to your beloved... :-)
It to bad that the third movie didn't do well or we would of gotten more of that Spider-Man
Remember the BP tattoo thread with the lady with a "galaxy" of dots over her breasts, and a guy with abs depicted by dots? It seems that they should each have an entry in 'World Geography 1948' too...
I just cant see a cat enjoying garlic bread, this was clearly done out of spite. I love cats but they can be utter bastards
Wear it on a chain round your neck and no-one will know you are desperate.
I've actually heard of this fact but yeah so I guess that monster in my nightmare is just probably Jeff from work
the look on the cats face in the picture really compliments this one
There was this girl in my class who had a strong American accent purely from watching too much tv as a kid. Nobody in her family or friends group were American.
Darn. I love walking around alone in the middle of the night, and now I'm going to be doing it with the idea in my head that everyone is feeling me...
You can have sex when you're married? Oh boy have I got something to tell my wife!
*raises hand* I'm one of those people who orders ginger ale on a plane.
It's an arti that was choked of course. Oh, the cruelty of it all!
Jesus, sometimes I think something went wrong along the way as tumblr developed... it's the craziest (and most fun) social media site out there.
we all are gay, love frogs, and like Halloween way tooooo much!
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Jesus, sometimes I think something went wrong along the way as tumblr developed... it's the craziest (and most fun) social media site out there.
we all are gay, love frogs, and like Halloween way tooooo much!
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