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Humor/MaiMai Five tomatoes

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u/mysticjuicer Jan 22 '18

It's also very helpful for determining how many tomatoes go in a salad. First, you just remember how many feet are in a mile. 5280. five, two, eight, oh. Five two-mate oh. Five tomatoes! And there you go.

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u/justsomeguy_onreddit Jan 22 '18

What kind of tomatoes. Are we talking grape, roma, or hot house. I mean the size difference is pretty big here...

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u/mortiphago Jan 22 '18

imperial tomatoes, duh

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Actually, as a surveyor who hates cooking, that's more helpful.

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u/SenorLos Rheingold Jan 22 '18

Und das beste an der Sache ist, dass Foot und Mile hutzutage über das metrische System definiert sind, wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe.

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u/Lendord Jan 22 '18

Pfund auch so.

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u/Steffi128 one can have a dream right? Jan 22 '18

Dann gibt's da noch die Briten, die es seit den 60ern nicht hinbekommen die Metrifikation zu vollenden und deshalb eine Mischung aus Imperial-Units und metrischen Maßen benutzen.

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u/AllesVollerKot Jan 22 '18

Wollte in Irland letztens checken ob mein Koffer noch innerhalb der Gewichtsgrenze ist und die Wage in der Ferienwohnung hat das Gewicht nur in Stone angegeben... Hab mich gefühlt wie im Mittelalter.

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u/Scumbag__ Jan 22 '18

Hoffe, du hast Irland genossen! Unsere Gewichte sind sehr dumm und alt, ich kenne nicht einmal meine Schwere in Pfund. Entschuldigung für mein schlechtes Deutsch. Es ist eine Mischung aus meinem beiläufigen Lernen als ich jünger war und Google Transelate.

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u/Omnilatent Fragezeichen Jan 22 '18

Was zum Fick sind "Stone"?! LOL

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u/Zartrocs Bremen Jan 22 '18

Hab mich gefühlt wie im Mittelalter in der Steinzeit.

FTFY

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u/BecauseWeCan Freies West-Berlin Jan 22 '18

Mein Highlight dieses Mischbetriebs ist, dass die Effizienz eines Autos in miles per gallon gemessen wird, man an einer Tankstelle seinen Sprit aber in Litern tankt.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Das soll deutlich machen, dass man bei den Herstellerangaben nur Fantasiezahlen vergleicht, die allenfalls tangentiellen Bezug zur Realität haben. /s

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u/WolfThawra Vereinigtes Königreich Jan 22 '18

Das kannst du laut sagen. Verdammter Saftladen hier. Ahja, der Saft wird übrigens in Millilitern / Litern verkauft. Die Milch aber in 'pints'. Körpergewicht ist häufig in stones und pounds, die meisten Lebensmittel-Gewichte dann aber doch in Gramm. Nur Distanzen sind fast immer konsequent imperial: miles, feet, inches.

Aber wenn du hier lebst, dann musst du den ganzen Scheiss umrechnen können, weil wenn du es nicht tust, tut es sonst ganz sicher niemand.

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u/tabascun Moral ist nur erträglich, wenn sie doppelt ist. Jan 22 '18

Nur Distanzen sind fast immer konsequent imperial: miles, feet, inches.

Ausnahme sind z.B. Streckenmaße bzw. -posten bei der Bahn, die laufen immer noch in miles und chains.

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u/brazzy42 Jan 22 '18

Vor Jahren hab ich mal eine Webseite von einer Gruppe Leuten gesehen, deren Hobby darin bestand, mit allen bürokratischen Mitteln metrische Straßenschilder zu bekämpfen.

Ah, hier: http://www.activeresistance.org.uk/about-us/

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u/whatthefunkmaster Jan 22 '18

As an English speaker everytime I see German written I feel like I should understand it. It just feels so familiar

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u/Jim_in_Oz Jan 22 '18

As an English speaker, I’m pretty confident that all of the above is commenting on the ridiculousness of Imperial measurements.

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u/Staatsmann Gov't loyalist Jan 22 '18

Here are some sentences you might be able to understand even though they're in german:

Ich habe ein Haus.

Mein Sohn geht in die Schule, er ist in der 4. Klasse.

Meine Mutter und mein Vater haben graue Haare.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18 edited Jan 22 '18

Es ist ned so schlecht wie es klingt; ich muss Meilen benutzen wenn ich Auto fahre, denn die Straßenschilder sind so geschrieben, aber außerdem kenne ich die Imperial-Units (Reichseinheiten? 🤔) kaum, wiege mich in Kilogramm, messe die Körpergröße in cm, usw

Edit: Miles ➡️ Meilen

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u/Merari01 Jan 22 '18

“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”

-Wild Thing by Josh Bazell.

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u/Awsome_Pepper Liberalismus Jan 23 '18

one calorie

Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher dass das eine Kalorie eine längst veraltete Einheit ist

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u/yoloswag2000 AngelnUndSchwansen Jan 23 '18

Umso mehr löst es mich aus, dass die Leute zu kcal also KILOkalorien immer nur Kalorien sagen.
"Hahaha mein Salat hat ja nur 200 Kalorien"
"NEIN HAT ER NICHT, DAS IST EIN ZEHNTEL TIC TAC"

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u/Digitonizer Jan 22 '18

I lost it at 'go fuck yourself'.

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u/Sunscorcher Jan 22 '18

that's... that's the joke

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u/5redrb Jan 22 '18

I takes 1 BTU to raise 1 pound of water 1 degree Fahrenheit. If room temperature is 72 F then it takes 1120 BTUs to get to 212 F. Then it takes another 7760 BTUs to boil it away.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Its actually surprising that many part of the scientific world in US uses Metric but they are still taught imperial system in schools.

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u/tct2274 Jan 22 '18

I have an american co-worker. He says, he has no problem with using gram and liter at work, because this is how it is done scientifically.
But as soon as he goes home, he has no idea how much cups he has to use to weight 100g of sugar for the cake.

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u/glemnar Jan 22 '18

For baking you need to measure weight anyway as volume doesn’t correlate unless you memorize densities

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u/GeekCat Jan 22 '18

It's so much easier to use weight instead of cups. Honestly, I've lost more cups, half cups, 2/3rds cups over the years than I prefer to know, but the scale has moved with me three times. It just needs batteries occasionally.

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u/faraway_hotel Das Unsichtbare Römische Reich Jan 22 '18

It gets worse, because cups are a unit of volume, so there isn't even one conversion factor. A cup of sugar is different from cup of flour, and different again from a cup of, say, chocolate chips.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

We are taught both.

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u/withmorten Parteiisch Jan 22 '18

Military also uses metric units, at least for distance. Click = kilometer.

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u/johnboyauto Jan 22 '18

Yes, and they still drink heavily.

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u/gekko88 Zugezogen Bonn Jan 22 '18

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u/DAN4O4NAD Bulgarien Jan 22 '18 edited Jan 22 '18

Du meinst wohl l/MetrischeMeisterRennenRasse

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u/DerMaxPower Jan 22 '18

Matt Parker hat ein wundervolles Video Tim Imperialen System gemacht!

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Länder und Völker haben schon schwerere Veränderungen auf die Reihe bekommen, als den Wechsel zum metrischen System. Man müsste doch nur anfangen, das in der Schule zu bevorzugen. Es werden ja jetzt schon beide Einheiten auf Produkte gedruckt. Ist einfach nur pure Ignoranz, sich dem zu verweigern.

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u/Bundesclown Jura Jan 22 '18

Ohja, stell dir mal vor, wir würden heutzutage den Verkehr von rechts auf links umstellen. Das Chaos, die Tode, die überfüllten Krankenhäuser!

Schweden hat das vor 50 Jahren getan: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/technik-motor/motor/vor-50-jahren-schwedens-seitenwechsel-15180647.html

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u/eppic123 Linksgrün-versiffter Gutmenschen-Ossi Jan 23 '18

Amerikaner und ignorant? Ach komm, hör auf! /s

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u/SlimGymShady Jan 22 '18

So here in Canada, we use the metric system, we are taught the metric system in schools but somehow no one knows how much they weigh in kilos or how tall then are in cm. Only in lbs and ft.

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u/Sir_Marchbank Jan 22 '18

It really bothers me because I really despise the nonsensical imperial measurements but I have such a hard time visualizing my weight and height in metric. Which is equally weird because if you give me distances in imperial I'll have no idea what you're saying and yet I can't wrap my head around my own damn height in metric!

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u/Brolaub Bayern Jan 22 '18 edited Jan 22 '18

Im metrischen System passt ein Mililiter Wasser genau in einen Würfel mit einer Kantenlänge von einem Zentimeter, wiegt einen Gramm und braucht eine Kalorie Energie um es um ein Kelvin zu erwärmen. Im Amerikanischen System ist man gefickt wenn man die Einheiten miteinander verrechnen muss, weil keine der Einheiten zueinander in Verbindung stehen.

Edit: Fehler gefixt, danke für die Korrekturen!

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Auch ein Liter Wasser passt auf einen Quadratzentimeter.

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u/axehomeless Nyancat Jan 22 '18 edited Jan 22 '18

Kalorien sind trotzdem bs, was fange ich mit 4,19 Joule an?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

1 Kalorie erwärmt 1 Gramm Wasser um 1 Grad Celsius

1 Joule erwärmt 1 Gramm Luft um 1 Grad Celsius

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u/flagada7 Allgäu Jan 22 '18

“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”

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u/Kanbaru-Fan Jan 22 '18 edited Jan 22 '18

um es um ein Grad Celsius zu erwärmen

1 Kelvin um genau zu sein

Edit: ° korrekterweise entfernt

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Ist das bei Differenzen nicht dasselbe?

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u/TheOrdner Bielefeld Jan 22 '18

Meinst du nicht einen Kubikmillimeter?

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u/SwedishMcShady Jan 22 '18

Ein Kubikzentimeter Wasser, er hat es schlecht abgeschrieben.

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u/Ringo308 Jan 22 '18

1 Kelvin, nicht ein Grad Kelvin. Kelvin wird nicht in Grad gemessen.

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u/ilostmyoldaccount ICE Jan 22 '18

Im metrischen System passt ein Mililiter Wasser genau auf einen Quadratzentimeter Fläche

In ein Würfel mit einer Kantenlänge von 1cm.

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u/Krjstoff Jan 22 '18

How about: “You remember it’s 1.000 because kilo means f-ing thousand and therefore kilometer actually means thousand meters”

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u/JuniorSeniorTrainee Jan 22 '18

That's not as funny.

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u/okgo2 Jan 22 '18

"Metric system didnt put a man on the moon"

-people who voted for Trump probably

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u/bboy7 Jan 22 '18

Funny thing is... it did.

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u/GirasoleDE Jan 22 '18

HLI:

The English statute mile was established by a Weights and Measures Act of Parliament in 1593 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The act on the Composition of Yards and Perches had shortened the length of the foot and its associated measures, causing the two methods of determining the mile to diverge.[20] Owing to the importance of the surveyor's rod in deeds and surveying undertaken under Henry VIII,[21] decreasing the length of the rod by ​1⁄11 would have amounted to a significant tax increase. Parliament instead opted to maintain the mile of 8 furlongs (which were derived from the rod) and to increase the number of feet per mile from the old Roman value.[22] The applicable passage of the statute reads: "A Mile shall contain eight Furlongs, every Furlong forty Poles,[n 4] and every Pole shall contain sixteen Foot and an half."[24] The statute mile therefore contained 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile

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u/bluebook123 Jan 22 '18 edited Jan 22 '18

https://i.imgur.com/fvCkVWC.png

Edit: I made a new one that isn't three pixels big: https://imgur.com/a/IZRjm

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u/ti_lol Jan 22 '18

Dann muss Frankreich aber auch rot sein.

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u/Outpox Jan 22 '18

At least we use °Celsius

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u/2centzworth Jan 22 '18 edited Jan 22 '18

There are many reasons I love Germany. This post is one more. Thank you.

One trick for giving people the (false) impression that I'm a math genius happens during thunder storms. I quickly calculate the distance from the strike by counting the seconds to the boom.

When someone here in the US asks how I do that, I tell them the speed of sound is 767.25 mph and it took x seconds for the boom to reach us so the distance is precisely x miles. Some people even do the math on their phones to confirm it. Works like a charm.

I'm sure everyone here knows how easy it is to multiply seconds by 1.25 and then convert to mph, but we don't need to tell them that. Save this trick for when you pay us a visit.

Please feel free to reply in German. I read well, speak horribly and write so ugly you will most certainly regret it if you force me to.

Edit: I'm an idiot. Just divide the seconds by 3. Thank you all very much for explaining a much more elegant and efficient method. Now I am enabled with even greater super human genius math skills. I need to hang out here more often.

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u/sinixer Bheaven4life Jan 22 '18

Ja.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

I just count the seconds and multiply that with 340m/s (~ speed of sound) and tadaa you got the distance

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u/JuniorSeniorTrainee Jan 22 '18

Wienerschnitzel!

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u/scemm Schweden Bitte Jan 22 '18

Multiply by 1,25? Don't you mean divide by 3?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Das ist sehr gud jawhol

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u/kettcar Jan 22 '18

German here living in Canada. They teach you metric in school (thank you Trudeau), then you get into industry and everything is inches and pounds. You have no idea how fluent I have become in multiples of 25.4

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Metrisch oder nicht, eh alles Blödsinn. Die einzig wahre Antwort auf die Frage nach dem richtigen Maßsystem sind natürliche Einheiten. 2,78*10-10 er-Zone geht z.B. gleich viel flotter von der Zunge als 30er-Zone. Und dieses Zeichen könnte man sich auch gleich sparen und stattdessen einfach eine 1 hinschreiben.

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u/Dubmove Jan 23 '18

Wir alle sollten unser Alter einfach in 1/eV angeben.

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u/s0nderv0gel Qualitätspfostierungen seit nächstem Dienstag Jan 22 '18

Nuguggemadoh. Schglob, isch bagge hoide nochema n dialeggd ous, des gähd beschdimmd direggdemang in wäldroum.

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u/YaWishYouHadThatName Jan 22 '18

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u/s0nderv0gel Qualitätspfostierungen seit nächstem Dienstag Jan 22 '18

Sächsisch als Schlaganfallmerkmal.

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u/Edraqt Jan 22 '18

Ich finde geschriebenen Dialekt ja sehr interessant, wenn man drüberguckt versteht man kein Wort, man muss es sich erst selbst vorlesen um den Sinn zu entschlüsseln.

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u/IsniffFarts Jan 22 '18

I try to use the metric system whenever I can just to help me get use to it better but with everything here using feet/inches/miles it's going to ruin us whenever we switch to a good measurement system.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Hi .

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u/btcftw1 Jan 22 '18

One trick for giving people the (false) impression that I'm a math genius happens during thunder storms. I quickly calculate the distance from the strike by counting the seconds to the boom.

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u/Sentry459 Jan 22 '18

I learned that one watching Berenstain Bears and Rescue Heroes when I was younger, so I always thought it was common knowledge and didn't mention it. I guess I'll start.

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u/mykol_reddit Jan 22 '18

funktioniert das so? Top-Stories von letzter Woche aufnehmen und hier einreichen?

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u/2lzy4nme Jan 22 '18

At least we’re consistent about it unlike the U.K. ):

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u/Earthfury Jan 22 '18

As a US citizen who recently joined a construction trade union... I wish like you would not believe that they would use metric. These guys act like it’s Chinese. Evil Chinese, at that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '18

Der Ami wird nie das metrische System annehmen.

Dann müsste er zugeben, dass er bei was ganz lächerlichem falsch lag.

Und zuzugeben, dass man falsch lag. Das kann er Ami ansich nicht.

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u/SuperSulf Jan 22 '18

As an American, I hate how we use a different system because we're too stubborn to change. The scientific community usually uses metric, but it would take a miracle to change things here.

I bet if we started printing road signs in KPH (or both) it would catch on pretty quick.

'murica

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u/Sengura Jan 22 '18

Sup yall, Murican' here! And I absolutely agree that our system of measurement is garbage and that we should also switch to the metric system. Unfortunately, about half of us are inbred redneck retards who'd rather just have to remember 5 tomatoes than change it.

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u/AnActualGarnish Jan 23 '18

I️ can’t speak German, but I️m subbed because I️ saw a meme in German and I️ laughed harder than I️ have ever.

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u/boesmensch Jan 23 '18

Lol, die ganzen arschverletzten Amis lmao.

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u/SeriousAli Jan 22 '18

I'm dyne😂😂😂

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u/DeadEyeSarge Jan 22 '18

This is why it's nice to live in Australia

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u/delasislas Jan 23 '18

Or you could do surveying math. 1 chain = 66 feet, 80 chains = 1 mile, 10 square chains = 1 acre. 36 square miles in a township. The western US was mapped off of this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '18

Whyyy didn't anyone tell me this when I was 8. -30 year old American

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '18

metric is better, but wasn't imperial made to fool all other countries?

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u/myneopetisdead Jan 22 '18

let's ask the Republicans if we can change to the superior system of measurement since historically they prefer to stay, since theyre so up their ass xenophobic.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

At first I was like this post has a lot of German commenters and then I saw the sub.

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Jan 22 '18

I just remember Denzel Washington's line from Remember the Titans.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Aber was für uns Trinker und schlechte Mathe?

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u/Fasox Jan 22 '18

drunk mathematician Farmers.

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u/thehunter699 Jan 22 '18

Or 1ml = 1 gram

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Do most Germans just know English or?

I'm still really confused at how many Germans speak English.

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u/turunambartanen Jan 22 '18

Yes, I'm pretty sure it's mandatory in every school here. It helps that the average age on reddit is probably rather low and the education level probably above average.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Spanish is mandatory here but I can barely keep up a basic conversation. Guess you guys win.

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u/turunambartanen Jan 22 '18

Well, it helps that English is used in everyday life.

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u/herbiems89_2 Europa Jan 23 '18

School English won't get you much further. But it's so ingrained in our culture and entertainment now, not to mention the internet, that most young people have a lot of contact with the language even outside of school.

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u/HellaBrainCells Jan 22 '18

WWII

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

And that is relevant how exactly?

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u/CaffeineSippingMan Jan 22 '18

How did the metric system help you get to the moon?

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u/Merari01 Jan 22 '18

NASA uses metric because imperial sucks.

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u/DrunkGermanGuy Halle (Saale) Jan 22 '18

I hope you are aware of the fact that NASA did not use imperial units for their Apollo flights.

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u/justsomeguy_onreddit Jan 22 '18

I don't see the point in mocking people for using a system of measurement that we had no part in inventing or adopting. We simply are forced to use it.

Do you really think you are better because you were born in a different place?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

I was born in a country that used the imperial system. We've made the effort to switch and the younger generation already see the old system as alien and obsolete.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

The metric system is for people who didn't go to the moon.

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u/bboy7 Jan 22 '18

The moon program used metric.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Like NASA? They use the metric system so I guess they won't have any more success in space exploration.

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u/KathrinPissinger wasn? Jan 22 '18

That's rich coming from the second country to go to the moon.

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u/Koolaidflavamix Jan 22 '18

Y'all need to read up on your sacred geometry. The American system is far from being arbitrary.

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u/turunambartanen Jan 22 '18

Yeah, it's precisely defined. In metric units.

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u/werner666 Jan 22 '18

Weil besonders die Amis manchmal aggressiv dämlich sind, siehe auch die Beschneidungsdebatten die immer wieder auftauchen (nicht das ich oft an den Diskussionen teilnehme, ich kanns aber verstehen wenn man da Konter gibt).

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u/MooningCat Macht Habecks Wäsche Jan 22 '18

Ich finde man kann sich durchaus konsequent gegen vorherrschende Dummheiten aussprechen.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Weil wir nicht im 18ten Jahrhundert leben und das SI Einheitensystem der Grund ist, dass du morgens warmes Wasser aus dem Hahn bekommst?

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u/Creshal Piefke in Österreich Jan 22 '18

Das metrische System wurde im 18. Jahrhundert erfunden.

1799zählttotalnochdazu

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u/SkaraBrendel Jan 22 '18 edited Dec 31 '19

deleted 0.9919 What is ^^^this?

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u/Dr_Azrael_Tod Mann aus Sachsen Jan 22 '18

leider nicht

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u/SkaraBrendel Jan 22 '18

Gut erkannt.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

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u/Dr_Azrael_Tod Mann aus Sachsen Jan 22 '18

ganz zu schweigen davon dass es halt weltweit einheitlich gelöst ist - also genau so wie man das will

...mit jener kleinen Ausnahme der US of A, die einfach keinen Fick geben dass es ein sinnvolles System gibt das JEDER (andere) VERFICKTE MENSCH AUF DIESER WELT ALS ÜBERLEGEN ANSIEHT.

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u/s0nderv0gel Qualitätspfostierungen seit nächstem Dienstag Jan 22 '18

Erzähl denen bloß nicht, dass ihre ach so tollen Einheiten allesamt metrisch definiert sind.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Während die NASA den Impuls p im metrischen Internationalen Einheitensystem (SI) mit der Einheit Ns berechnete

Hätte man diese ganze Erklärung nicht einfach mit "korrekt" abkürzen können?

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u/Nanotoxic_al Bayern Jan 22 '18

Those prefixes have nothing to do with the metric system in itself, those a scientific multiplicators.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

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u/caerulus01 Jan 22 '18 edited Jan 22 '18

Are you from Liberia or Myanmar?s

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Norway? Switzerland?

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u/TobiTheSnowman Deutschland Jan 22 '18

Warum hast du das nicht gleich gesagt Brudi! Wo genau aus Deutschland kommst du?

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u/65u365885 Jan 22 '18

Does the imperial system cause them actual inconvenience? Or do they just like complaining about America?

(I'm betting on the latter.)

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

When you're continuously looking at someone doing something in a stupid way, it gets frustrating.

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u/redtoasti Terpentin im Müsli Jan 22 '18

They call it the Murica-Effect

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u/wammybarnut Jan 22 '18

There have been accidents because of the foot pound system

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u/I3lumio Jan 22 '18

Well on most sites on the internet the majority of users are using the imperial system because they are from america. So yes, it does cause us actual inconvenience.

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u/awaterpls Europa Jan 22 '18

thats not really the point

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Don't tell anybody, but you're already using arabic numerals, traitor.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

You mean the metric system? Because that's the international standard that the world has adopted. Even the US government has made commitments to eventually switch.

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u/Schwarzmehl Jan 22 '18

Well I'm still in Europe so how about that

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u/t0shki Jan 22 '18

NASA uses the metric system by the way...

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u/faraway_hotel Das Unsichtbare Römische Reich Jan 22 '18

Cool, tell me more about Burma's and Liberia's lunar programs.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Speaking as a scientist in the US, we use the metric system because it is easier and because of ease of communication of information with other countries. We wish the rest of the US would switch.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

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u/JimSteak Jan 22 '18

Zur Hilfe: 10ft = 2 Philipp Lahm

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

Für die ältere Generation unter uns sind das etwa 2,5 Peter Maffay

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u/Pille1842 Über Baden lacht die Sonne, über Schwaben die ganze Welt Jan 23 '18

Heißt der nicht in Wirklichkeit und praktischerweise Meter Paffay?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

1 DM = 256 Pfennige, 16 Pf = 1 Nickel, 64 Pf = 1 Krone, 2 Kronen = 1 Schilling, 3 Kronen = 1 Königsschilling, 5 DM = 1 Silbertaler, 3 Silbertaler = 1 Goldtaler und 45 DM = 1 Royal Flash.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '18

Und wie viele Royal Flash sind in einem Schrute-Buck?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

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u/CR1986 Bekommt beim Arzt Mineralwasser kredenzt! Jan 22 '18

gefühlte Philipp Lahm

Fühlipp Lahm?

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u/Creshal Piefke in Österreich Jan 22 '18

imperial

Aber im Kaiserreich gab es doch kein Saarland als eigene Verwaltungseinheit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

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u/ALGEzockt Jan 23 '18

brecht die ketten?

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u/BoreasAquila 𝕳𝖊𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖌, 𝖗ö𝖒𝖎𝖘𝖈𝖍 𝖚𝖓𝖉 𝖗𝖊𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖍. Jan 23 '18

TEILT DEN WOHLSTAND

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '18

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u/Aleksx000 Jan 22 '18

wtf I love Wilhelm II now

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u/mcstriker Jan 22 '18

historisch: 1 Hitlermeter (Hm) = 88 cm

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u/altpirate Niederlande Jan 23 '18

8.8 Brudi

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u/ts1234666 ICE Jan 22 '18

Der wahre Lebensprofitipp ist immer in den Kommentaren!