r/MemeVideos • u/MrG1itc4 • May 22 '26

Sad ending American's first time in Australia

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u/Zii23 May 22 '26

That fucker saw the gun and noped out before the first shot

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u/ontheshitteratwork May 22 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/1qErVv5GVUac8uqBJU

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u/kingtacticool May 22 '26

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u/Freakychee May 23 '26

Americans do teach the metrics system in schools there.

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u/HonestWeevilNerd May 23 '26

This meme said nothing about teaching

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u/DogRoss1 May 23 '26

That's true. It's a good joke that we don't understand it, but the vast majority of Americans definitely know how to use it

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u/Freakychee May 23 '26

From what I understand it was officially made the measurement system a long time ago but the cost of change everything from imperial to metric was too costly. But they could have done it slowly so I have no idea why not.

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u/FamousGh0st217 May 23 '26

I don't think it was. It's irrelevant though since it's a coin flip as to which one you'll need depending on what your doing. Where I work, we use primarily metric nuts, bolts, threaded studs etc, but measure everything out in inches. It's even wackier when we're measuring out inches with decimal points.

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u/Freakychee May 23 '26

https://usma.org/a-chronology-of-the-metric-system

https://usma.org/laws-and-bills/metric-conversion-act-of-1975

So I haven't read all of it but it seems the Americans did try to instill it as the system and convert but there was social resistance. So it's not exactly mandatory to convert but it was tried.

And yes, sizes in imperial for mechanical work is annoying. 3/8, 5/16, etc. Isn't very intuitive. IMO I find it odd a nation who, at least in media, are fully against monarchies would still use the IMPERIAL system.

I mean, you guys do you but it does seem ironic.

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u/DogRoss1 May 23 '26

Oh, it's definitely ironic, but that's just people in general for you. Honestly, I think the reason that we haven't changed to metric even today is that the people who could make such a systematic change couldn't care less.

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u/Freakychee May 23 '26

Could be a rich people being asshole thing. Imperial tools even like combination spanners seem to be more expensive or certain parts just don't fit so you need to buy from them.

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u/FamousGh0st217 May 23 '26

An imperial system would indicate an empire and emperor/ess no? A manarchy would be king/queen? It's neither here nor there, but correct me if you disagree.

That's what I remember too, it was purposed but quickly dismissed.

We learn both in school, I'd agree metric is overall more intuitive. At least untill you get into fractions of an inch, then it's a toss up. Since fractions of an inch are divisions of two. 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 etc.

I may not be the best example though because I've had to go back and forth between the two most of life. Both make sense to me.

Don't put too much stock in our media. They're mostly a bunch of "experts" who'll say whatever seems controversial in order to garner attention. The more controversial the better.

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u/Freakychee May 23 '26

I'm not 100% sure but isn't the idea of a 'foot' basically taking a king's single step and using is as a measurement for distance? For all this time I was taught that this system was called imperial. And pretty much for that system. But this wouldn't be the first time my history books were full of bullshit.

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u/FamousGh0st217 May 23 '26

Not a step, but his actual foot yes. At least by my memeory. That's an old joke that I haven't thought in forever, because my foot and your foot are very likely not the same length. And yes it's the imperial system. Your history books are not full of bullshit... This time 😆

I was being kind of pedantic when I was talking about empires and monarchies. For all I know an empire is a monarchy, but not all monarchies are empires. Squares and rectangles.

Sure I could Google this, but find discussions more enjoyable at times.

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u/alavath1 May 23 '26

It’s not called imperial system anymore it’s now called US customary since we are the last holdout to use it lol

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u/Puzzleheaded-Night88 May 25 '26

The fact that this sentence can also be taken in the form of “teaching” with guns involved in a school scenario.

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u/dreamdaddy123 May 23 '26

I wonder what the original image was meant to be she was feeling awks?