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[-] regalia@literature.cafe 19 points 1 year ago

Why does the US live rent free in so many European's heads all the time?

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 year ago

Because each time we look for some English content, they use some dumb fantasy metrics based on the size fo the feet of a king for some reason, and we need to look up a converter to change it to a metric used in 195 different countries.

[-] shanghaibebop@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

You mean x football fields.

Coincidentally both “football fields” are pretty close in length.

[-] stingpie@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

1 yard is about a meter. 3 feet in a yard. Just divide by 3 and that's good enough for 99% of cases.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

I think you meant Americans can multiply metres by three, instead of 195 countries accommodating to just them

[-] regalia@literature.cafe -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I measure in freedom units brother!

Also how did feet/metric get brought up, that's not even remotely relevant, tf lol.

[-] RoquetteQueen@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 year ago

I didn't know Canada and Australia were in Europe

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That's American geography

[-] theragu40@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They aren't, which makes this meme even funnier because in my experience Canadians and Aussies are pretty likely to understand both systems and wouldn't have a problem identifying either.

I'd put money on this having been made by a European.

[-] zik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Australian here. Celsius is all we use here really. I'd have to convert to Celsius to understand Fahrenheit units.

[-] RoquetteQueen@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

As a Canadian myself, it really depends. Most of us only understand farenheit in certain contexts. Some of us can understand it for weather but I think that's mostly older generations. I use farenheit for oven and pool temperature only. In every other context, it is meaningless to me.

[-] theragu40@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The crossover is so fascinating to me.

Like you just nonchalantly use it for pools and ovens and nothing else. Kind of like we use liters randomly for certain soda bottles and basically nothing else.

[-] RoquetteQueen@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I know! It's so weird. Ovens are probably because we get ours from the US, but why we do pool temperature in farenheit is a mystery to me.

[-] theragu40@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

People are definitely strange creatures lol

[-] sentore@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

I love that the meme is about Canada, Australia, and the US(ish), yet it's the Europeans that get called out by this guy. Who's living rent free in whose head? ;)

[-] regalia@literature.cafe 3 points 1 year ago

Am I wrong lol

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

I'd assume because the internet is 90% catered to american's.

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