cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36354041
British: Hey guys we developed this thing called the metric system
French: Are we a joke to you?
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2025
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Anything But Metric
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Americans will use anything but metric
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French developed fries, they can't have also developed the metric system
French developed fries
Belgians: Are we a joke to you?
Ohh la la!
The British did WHAT
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.
The British Museum:
the original prototype of the meter is made of what? Hold my lukewarm ale!
How France created the metric system
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180923-how-france-created-the-metric-system
The British invented imperial units and not metric. So cool post.
British and Irish: yeh we use stone as a measurement of body weight what of it mate
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!
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:
one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the meridian
Today it's defined as:
the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 seconds
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).
Ohh yeah? How many stones do you weigh?
One hamburger is around 3 thumbs.
I don’t recall asking for the recipe, but ok.
That's fun
They also taste as good as 800 hamburgers. 😋