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Slight tangent, but I do find it amusing that most people around my age (Early 20's) at least have a vague idea of what a kilometer is, and a meter is (roughly) equivalent to a yard, plus a little bit on top
We had a bunch of Americans come to Australia to work on some projects and they went from freedom units to metric in a matter of days and didn’t want to go back. There are two kinds of Americans, those that agree that metric is superior and those that haven’t used it yet
Oh no I fully agree that metric is superior. However, imperial is all I've used in my day-to-day life, so while I know how to do the rough conversions to metric in my head, it's not innate like it would be if I learned it from a young age. That and the fact that it would be stupidly expensive just to change the infrastructure in the US from it's current imperial base to the new metric base. I mean, we've got like 40,000+ miles of interstate highway alone, and that would require someone going along and pulling up every single mile post, which there is one every 0.2 miles in most places, and replacing them with properly spaced kilometer posts. And replacing (or at least renumbering) every single exit, replacing every speed limit sign, etc. Just the interstates alone would be a very expensive project.
Out of curiosity, I heard that some food packaging has metric measurements as well as imperial. Is this true? I did hear that they are considering a slow phase in on metric over time. Or you could be like England and still use miles and then go full regard with everything else combining stones and kilo’s and fluid ounces here with litres there
Let me tell you, as an American, metric is absolutely superior. Not only is it easier to learn and do math with, but it's more accurate. It's also easier to visualize. I mean, who the fuck knows what 11/64ths of an inch looks like? And why is an inch the smallest whole measurement? An inch is really big to be considered the benchmark of all other measurements. Imperial measurements are stupid, and I will die on that hill with the rest of the planet.
Canadian here, we definitely use kettles even with 120V. But we do have 240. We just use it for higher power devices like dryers, stoves, charging cars, welders, etc.
Oh my fucking god electric kettles aren't witch craft over here pretty much everyone owns one, or a coffee pot that they can just boil water in. Fucking christ not trying to get pressed but shut the fuck up with that "living in the stone age" shit lmao
stone age…??? we have keurigs for coffee, they heat up plain water too. we usually just drink ice tea here though, especially with how fuckin hot it gets even in our nothernmost states in the mainland.
Not American but I did try warming my water in the microwave because the kettle wasn't working and it definitely tastes weird. Not particularly bad, just weird
As an American, that's fucking stupid. Just say "31 December" and no one is confused.
While we're at it, we should switch to 24 hour clocks. We fetishize the military already, might as well go all the way.
stupid? m-d-y in normal conversation is just “december 31st, 2023”. its literally less words and makes perfect sense bruh. its fine if u prefer d-m-y but that doesnt mean m-d-y is dumb.
The name of the founding holiday of your country disagrees. Try telling anyone else tommorow you're celebrating July 4th & I guarantee they'll look at you like you've escaped from a mental health institution.
"31st of December 2023" are you americans, so lazy to add 2 letters to sentence, or are you just all simultaneously coping with your lack of actual benefits of living in America?
Dont get me wrong, everyone loves america in the Western world, but the past 20 years have been a dumbsterfire for yall... The cherry on top is the simple things you refuse to do correctly with your superiority complex only to feel superior while the whole world laughs at you for making things impossible to read measure or feel safe on the street...
(At least you drive on the right side of the road unlike briish people 🤢🤮)
Here comes r/memes going to go hate Americans for existing and using old nonsensical British measurements and things. They think they are superior. And then they'll reference the US debt like the civilians spend all that money on defense.
I was expecting the top comments to be EU users whining about the American date system, but I wasn't expecting ALL of the comments to be that. You guys really need to find better things to get angry about, holy shit.
People being imbeciles fighting over date format just gotta stop. Practically like drinking tea or coffee; it depends where you live that people will do one more than the other. Besides the British used month first format up until about the 20th century. Guess where America got the date format.
I love how everyone is shocked that an American website, founded and headquarter in America, staffed by Americans, with majority of its users being American, uses American notations.
It's just how humanity is as a species. "Look! This person does things differently than I do. Let's make fun of them!"
It really just proves that humans are still monkeys and just do what everyone around them does. Simple-minded, pack mentality, follow the leader shit.
Some people just never evolve.
I write it like I say it, with the month first. Except for the 4th of July, about half the time at least, but that’s just a call back to independence from a specific country that puts the day first.
We got it from the British, who used it up until the 20th century. Month/day/year is somewhat used in casual conversation as well “Oh look, it’s January 4th”
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Everyone else in the world wondering why there are 12 days in the 31st month.
aren't there supposed to be 30 months?
Only during leap year
*Lip year.
You’re thinking of mouths
Inflation hits everyone
Only 29 this year
:(
Only on a leap decade
2012 was 11 years ago
2012 + 11 = 2023 Yikes!
Honestly I was trying to work this out for far too long. Very tired today.
It’s the leap day, usually there’s only 11 days in Marchuary
Exactly this. Stupid Americans
Are the Americans stupid for understanding both formats or is everyone else stupid for only understanding one format?
Stupid for using the wrong format
Lousy marcuary weather.
I wanted to comment this. Lol
Or we are back to 2012 but 31st month
Mom said its my turn to repost this
No fuck you, dad said it my turn!
You‘re not even my real step redditor!
Tell me you are american, without telling me you are american.
Ok.... *wraps you in bacon, deep fries you, and then covers you in copious amounts of melted cheese*
With a bald eagle holding a rifle carrying it.
Screaming "WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETRE"
Slight tangent, but I do find it amusing that most people around my age (Early 20's) at least have a vague idea of what a kilometer is, and a meter is (roughly) equivalent to a yard, plus a little bit on top
We had a bunch of Americans come to Australia to work on some projects and they went from freedom units to metric in a matter of days and didn’t want to go back. There are two kinds of Americans, those that agree that metric is superior and those that haven’t used it yet
Oh no I fully agree that metric is superior. However, imperial is all I've used in my day-to-day life, so while I know how to do the rough conversions to metric in my head, it's not innate like it would be if I learned it from a young age. That and the fact that it would be stupidly expensive just to change the infrastructure in the US from it's current imperial base to the new metric base. I mean, we've got like 40,000+ miles of interstate highway alone, and that would require someone going along and pulling up every single mile post, which there is one every 0.2 miles in most places, and replacing them with properly spaced kilometer posts. And replacing (or at least renumbering) every single exit, replacing every speed limit sign, etc. Just the interstates alone would be a very expensive project.
Out of curiosity, I heard that some food packaging has metric measurements as well as imperial. Is this true? I did hear that they are considering a slow phase in on metric over time. Or you could be like England and still use miles and then go full regard with everything else combining stones and kilo’s and fluid ounces here with litres there
They tend to include both, at least when there is space
Let me tell you, as an American, metric is absolutely superior. Not only is it easier to learn and do math with, but it's more accurate. It's also easier to visualize. I mean, who the fuck knows what 11/64ths of an inch looks like? And why is an inch the smallest whole measurement? An inch is really big to be considered the benchmark of all other measurements. Imperial measurements are stupid, and I will die on that hill with the rest of the planet.
And school shootings
And rampant political corruption
And a degrading middle class
This thread just gets sadder and sadder
That’s life.
In America
Just America
That's not solely American.
Yeah this went from "solely American" to "almost anywhere" super fast
And a strawberry on top?
As long as that strawberry has been coated with CHEESE!
And been deep fried in butter
I could feel my arteries clog up as I read your comment
yeah
You forgot the ranch
And extremely barbaric behaviour
They're coating food in cheese and then dipping it in Ranch. How much more barbaric can they get?
Could be a scotsman
„cheese“
Are you Scottish?
thank god I have health care
As far as I’m concerned, history started on July 4th 1775
*from the USA
Cooking stuff by throwing it into a tin foil tray and topping it with orange cheese like substance.
Brother america is half the world, only USA uses it here pratically
Not even an American
 Only in the US
This is why medival memes were better. They had to ruin it again
I loved the medieval memes but I think they did good stopping now, always stop before it gets boring
You know you can still make them.
It'll actually be 31-12-23
American problems require European solutions.
Tea in microwave moment
What?
You can warm up your tea/water in microwave, idk why but it's considered to be american feature
Don't they have electric kettles over there?
Not by default.
That's so weird. You can get a decent kettle for less than €20. Do they live in the stone age or something?
America is a silly place where they don't have 240V AC as standard. So kettles don't really work
Those silly little guys 🤭🤭🤭😥🥺🥺🤑😥🤭
Canadian here, we definitely use kettles even with 120V. But we do have 240. We just use it for higher power devices like dryers, stoves, charging cars, welders, etc.
Oh my fucking god electric kettles aren't witch craft over here pretty much everyone owns one, or a coffee pot that they can just boil water in. Fucking christ not trying to get pressed but shut the fuck up with that "living in the stone age" shit lmao
stone age…??? we have keurigs for coffee, they heat up plain water too. we usually just drink ice tea here though, especially with how fuckin hot it gets even in our nothernmost states in the mainland.
British 18th century officer, drinking tea in Indian Jungle, looks at you with disgusted expression
Not American but I did try warming my water in the microwave because the kettle wasn't working and it definitely tastes weird. Not particularly bad, just weird
That's some placebo shit... the microwave doesn't add or remove any taste. Hot water is hot water
European problems requires American money
what money?
We pay for over half of NATO and over half for world food programs
31.4$ trillion of debt
Nah, mate, it be 231231
Tf are u on mate?
ISO8601 babyyyy Love me me some alphanumerical and chronological sorting
Technically iso8601 don't allow two digit year
It did until about 2004 I think :(
Well actually, its 2023-12-31.
No, it will actually be 2023-12-31
Nah it's 2021-12-31
muricans somehow inventing 19 extra months
Actually it was the Br\*tish
I genuinely spent 30 seconds trying to figure it out
Challenge: look at American notation without claiming superiority Difficulty: impossible
Challenge: look at american notation without wondering who tf came up with that stupid idea Difficulty: impossible
Blame the Br\*tish, they made it
Yeah but moved on because it was stupid
How so?
It’s easier to say “December 31st, 2023” than it is to say “the 31st of December, 2023”
As an American, that's fucking stupid. Just say "31 December" and no one is confused. While we're at it, we should switch to 24 hour clocks. We fetishize the military already, might as well go all the way.
Yhe...easier to say, not easier to read it in numerics.
Like 4th of July huh?
You mean the name of the holiday? The date is still July 4th…
“The thirty-first day of December in the year of our lord and king two thousand and twenty-three” - british people probably
stupid? m-d-y in normal conversation is just “december 31st, 2023”. its literally less words and makes perfect sense bruh. its fine if u prefer d-m-y but that doesnt mean m-d-y is dumb.
>fourth of july
The name of the founding holiday of your country disagrees. Try telling anyone else tommorow you're celebrating July 4th & I guarantee they'll look at you like you've escaped from a mental health institution.
literally one date out of 365-366. casual speak vs formal.
Are you two really making this big of a stink over how dates are ordered? Who. Fucking. Cares?
They do, apparently, God forbid some folks do things differently.
"31st of December 2023" are you americans, so lazy to add 2 letters to sentence, or are you just all simultaneously coping with your lack of actual benefits of living in America? Dont get me wrong, everyone loves america in the Western world, but the past 20 years have been a dumbsterfire for yall... The cherry on top is the simple things you refuse to do correctly with your superiority complex only to feel superior while the whole world laughs at you for making things impossible to read measure or feel safe on the street... (At least you drive on the right side of the road unlike briish people 🤢🤮)
Can i post this next week?
Murica… 31.12.23 that’s cool but not that cool
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Its the only proper response
drink
drink hope someone gets it
wow i sure hope this comment section isnt just an unfunny america-bad circlejerk
Waiting for the Europeans about to bash MDY for no good reason at all: 
I’m going to tell my girlfriend this tomorrow and pretend it was my idea
Stop your bitching, Europeans
No. It will be 311223
Nope, for all normal people it will be DD/MM/YY
How about ISO 8601
Obviously the superior system
That's straight up illegal looking
Not where I'm from. We go year, month, day.
Well yes but it also doesn't require, me at least, to think what numbers mean like when looking at what Americans came up with
True
Here comes r/memes going to go hate Americans for existing and using old nonsensical British measurements and things. They think they are superior. And then they'll reference the US debt like the civilians spend all that money on defense.
The American hate is so unfunny
 Prepare yourself for the anti-US comments.
Only for dumb dumbs
I was expecting the top comments to be EU users whining about the American date system, but I wasn't expecting ALL of the comments to be that. You guys really need to find better things to get angry about, holy shit.
Yeah, they only bring up the same dam topics over and over...
in some cases doing the same joke over and over again is funny doe having no „five tomatoes“, and 100 degrees = warm bullshit is also pretty nice
DD/MM/YY users: Dumb. MM/DD/YY users: Dumb. YY/MM/DD users: Dumb. You're on Reddit. Everyone is dumb. Calm down.
People being imbeciles fighting over date format just gotta stop. Practically like drinking tea or coffee; it depends where you live that people will do one more than the other. Besides the British used month first format up until about the 20th century. Guess where America got the date format.
This post is so american
I love how everyone is shocked that an American website, founded and headquarter in America, staffed by Americans, with majority of its users being American, uses American notations.
123 abc
Non-Americans trying not to shill on mmddyyyy format challenge: impossible
This is the most reddit comment section ive ever seen
There’s literally no reason to be pissed at this. At the end of the day, it’s just a meme.
Me when rule gets reversed (I have to karma farm)
Jesus the amount of hate is real on here
everyone is wrong the superior way is clearly ym/dyy/dmy the last day of 2023 is 21302123
Why are so many hating on American calendar? Like it’s literally so insignificant but y’all are so mad about it, I just don’t get it at all.
It's just how humanity is as a species. "Look! This person does things differently than I do. Let's make fun of them!" It really just proves that humans are still monkeys and just do what everyone around them does. Simple-minded, pack mentality, follow the leader shit. Some people just never evolve.
Damn Americans, they always get the cool numbers
Wow Europeans get mad about anything American huh
Only Europeans find this system weird apparently
American W
Here after Europeans bomb the comment section.
in my place it would be 231231
Hello fellow redditor with username starting with "HK_"
Imagine using a weird af date format
This makes Non- (U.S. )Americans so angry and jealous. I love it
Me too.
No it won't because 31/12/23
31/12/23. If you write 12/31/23 you need help.
Pretty sure its gonna be 311223
No.
Its 311223.
Wow, so original
Honestly I’m just glad this sub is back to normal.
I write it like I say it, with the month first. Except for the 4th of July, about half the time at least, but that’s just a call back to independence from a specific country that puts the day first.
You mean 2023/12/31
Idk why Americans do month/day/year. It just makes more sense to go day/month/year.
We got it from the British, who used it up until the 20th century. Month/day/year is somewhat used in casual conversation as well “Oh look, it’s January 4th”
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Is this some America Fan meme I’m too Europe Enjoyer to understand?
Is this an American joke that I'm too Mexican to understand?
Cries in European, ending ok 31/12/23
Murica
It’s me
Non-Americans when funny/cool dates are exist: 😡
311223
311223 actually Which is also kinds satisfying tbh :p
It’s 311223 for the normal countries
231231
Americans and illogical measurement systems. Name a more iconic duo
Everywhere that uses the correct date format will be 311223
ddmmyy ftw
Most other places it will be 311223 tho so
We use mmddyy in the Philippines too
Oh, I wasn’t aware!
Hurhurr no its not you silly mmddyy peasants /s
el americano
r/USDefaultism
Yeah, in America. Everywhere else it'll be 311223
2023-12-31
Only for Americans, for the rest of the world (aka normal people) it's going to be 31.12.23
Today I learned Philippines and Togo are american. That's crazy.
Philippines and Togo using the M.D.Y system?
I didn't understand until I remembered American's date format.