• Lizardking27@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The only irony here is your ignorant self mocking me for my alleged ignorance. Most countries don’t use metric and imperial, but they use metric and something.

    And just as general advice, mocking and generalizing other people due to their nationality is a primitive and smoothbrained behavior. Grow up.

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      1 year ago

      Ah… No mate, there are no “somethings” for “most countries”. Most of the world uses straight up metric and that’s it. What “local systems” do you know of that get used alongside metric?

      And regarding the grow up part… See, here in Europe everybody will crack jokes about everybody else. French laugh at Germans, Polish mock the Spanish and everyone laughs at the British because they can’t come back at us since they had their little voting oopsie and now need a form to import jokes into the EU.

      Remember that one kid that never got the joke, took what was said in jest at face value, got upset and thus mocked even more? Americans have a surprising tendency to be that kid.

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        1 year ago

        There are “something” for a lot of things that are not in metrics.

        Like tire sizes. My bow’s power is measured in pounds (and I should use inches there too normally. I don’t bother.) Screen sizes are in inches I think…

        95% work in metrics. But there is always a little stuff in some weird units.

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        1 year ago

        “Remember that one kid that never got the joke, took what was said in jest at face value, got upset and thus mocked even more?”

        Please stop, the irony, it’s too much.