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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Claims to be in the American wilderness

uses Metric

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Unlike with longer distances and temperature, Americans don't strictly use imperial for shorter distances (m, cm, mm). It's on all of the signs and stuff, but we learn metric in school as well as how to convert to and from. In university-level physics classes, they almost solely use metric. So as an American myself, I didn't bat an eye at him using meters. But if they said that it was 30C outside...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Personally know several metric nuts who insist on using metric in their day-to-day life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

"Metric nut" sounds like there's a measurement to their insanity in the metric system

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Perhaps lost some.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

South Americans.

Every red white and blue blooded American uses the foot!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well you gotta use both feet if you're going hiking

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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