They did what they always do: Take some other countries cultural heritage items, and claim it as their own. At least, this time they only stole the culture and not also the land.
Americans being confused by stone is my favourite part of all the unit related arguments. This is how the rest of the world feels about your entire system of measurement! Have a taste of your own medicine!
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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 48 pts · 359d
French: Are we a joke to you?
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 359d
French developed fries, they can't have also developed the metric system
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 359d
Belgians: Are we a joke to you?
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org · 1 pts · 202d
Belgians developed waffles, they can't also have invented chips.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 359d
Ohh la la!
schnokobaer@feddit.org · 29 pts · 359d
The British did WHAT
brotundspiele@feddit.org · 20 pts · 359d
They did what they always do: Take some other countries cultural heritage items, and claim it as their own. At least, this time they only stole the culture and not also the land.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 2 pts · 359d
The British Museum:
Babalugats@feddit.uk · 22 pts · 359d
How France created the metric system
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180923-how-france-created-the-metric-system
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 359d
Their calendar system was wild.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 359d
The British invented imperial units and not metric. So cool post.
don@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 359d
British and Irish: yeh we use stone as a measurement of body weight what of it mate
GiveOver@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 359d
Americans being confused by stone is my favourite part of all the unit related arguments. This is how the rest of the world feels about your entire system of measurement! Have a taste of your own medicine!
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · -3 pts · 359d
Um, ACU is a result of British Imperial.
Brits still use Imperial in day-to-day conversations.
Metric is still largely bound by human scale - Celsius is bound to water at earth pressures and temps. Meter is bound to earth circumference:
Today it's defined as:
Utter arbitrary nonsense to continue to use the yard and calling it by a different name.
This whole meme is a joke fueled by hubris. At least Kelvin is tied to a universal constant.
(I use both ACU and metric every day, they're simply different).
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 359d
Ohh yeah? How many stones do you weigh?
j4k3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 359d
amotio@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 359d
One hamburger is around 3 thumbs.
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 359d
I don’t recall asking for the recipe, but ok.
erika_s@piefed.social · 2 pts · 359d
That's fun
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 358d
They also taste as good as 800 hamburgers. 😋