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[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Hey now, let's be fair. Y'all also be measuring in these.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

The British swore off their European status several years ago.

[+] [email protected] -14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I assume from the "y'all" that you're talking as an American?

For your information, stone is an English and British unit of measurement, used in the UK and Ireland for bodyweight.

Continental Europe doesn't use it, even colloquially, because we like our measurement systems to make sense.

But I can see how an American would generalise Europe based on the stereotypes they have for Britain, as it happens pretty frequently.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I can see how an American would generalise Europe

Said with absolutely zero irony

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I laughed so hard when I saw that. How can some people on Lemmy be so incredibly unaware of themselves?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Because they came here from reddit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

'murican overestimates regional differences in 'murica while underestimating regional differences in Europe. In unrelated news, anglophone can't stop thinking anglocentrically.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Never heard of an anglophone, is that the instrument we call a "triangle"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It was a joke response to a joke post about measuring things in different ways which happens around the world. It's pretty funny that you're cool with generalizing all Americans but the second someone points out that some Europeans measure differently too you're suddenly defensive about it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

'murican can't figure out the difference between Anglos and Europeans, as usual

[+] [email protected] -8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I love it when you get offended when people throw your jokes back at you.

Even the UK National Health Service uses kilograms by default, not stones. So saying "y'all also measure in stones" is akin to saying that "y'all Americans believe in segregation" because there's still some racist grandpas who think it was better that way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The US measures ingredients and pharmaceuticals in g and mg. I'm not sure what your point is. We use both Metric and Standard on a regular basis. I'm not even sure why you're intrigued when it literally does not affect you. And an additional point, if metrication is so I portant to you, why don't you finish removing dozenal time and the 12 month calendar from your daily use? Not even you are fully metric.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We're on a post that's about making fun on the imperial system.

If that's triggering to you... maybe move on to the next post?

"Standard"?

Such tasty irony. :D

"metrication"

You mean standardisation?

"dozenal time" :D

Our clocks work on 24-hour time, yank. And those twenty four hours are divided into 60 minutes and 60 seconds, which is called sexagesimal, meaning base-60. Imperial isn't base-anything, as every unit is different from the next.

An inch is 3 barleycorns. A barleycorn is 4 poppyseeds. A poppyseed (2.11mm) is six points. A point, 0.35mm is twenty twips. A twip is 17 micrometers.

Also, looking at recipes online, measuring via volume (cups) more common in the US than grams.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It'd help your point if you were less incredibly butthurt lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You don't find "metrication" and "dozenal" hilarious when the context of the post is 'Americans don't understand metric systems'?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love it when you get offended when people throw your jokes back at you.

You're the one who threw a massive tizzy when an American associated you with the Brits. And your comparison is bad because bringing back segregation is the unspoken goal of the Republican party these days.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You can perceive my comments any way you like man, but I'm pretty sure I know my moods better than you. :D

So the comparison to someone wanting someone we know is archaic and bad back is wrong because you have way more of previously mentioned racist grandpas and they actually have political power, and you do not?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

🤓

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

imagine being so mentally devoid that you think a person writting normally is too intellectual for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I assume from the assumptions and generalizations that you're talking as a d-bag? I can see how a douche would generalize based on the stereotypes they have for nice, reasonable people, as it happens pretty frequently.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm generalising for humor.

You know, like OP, and the person I replied to?

You can't take a joke when it's aimed at you? ;>

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You forgot to include the humor, jokes play better when they're funny.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You meant to say "I didn't get the humour"

Missed an "o" there, feller

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You forgot to include the humor, jokes play better when they're funny.o

Better? Doesn't look right to me, but if that's how you Brits do things...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"You Brits"

See this is the problem. I'm not British, but you can't help but assume everyone from Europe is, haha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm generalizing for humor.

You know, like op, and the guy I replied to?

You can't take a joke if it's aimed at you? ;>

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's the problem with English, no second-person singular. :(

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

Keep trying bud, maybe you'll get it some day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That is a bit unfair, in Europe we measure with the fraction of the earth' circumference, so the meme go accordingly

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, incorrect:

Since 2019 the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second

Metre - Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

That seems completely infeasible, how am I supposed to reach a proper haberdashery in the depths of deep space? Nobody has time for that nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

So no one is asking for a source?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe I should go to America to see a taylor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I'd rather be the man in the bottom panel than the man in the top panel