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[–] Titou@feddit.de 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

USA's measurment system dosn't make any senses.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shut up. If you don't know how many buckets there are to a hogshead, that's not our fault.

[–] Titou@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Smartest statesian

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

That's medieval units for you. At least they use the same units in the whole country, which is progress compared to how it used to be in the rest of the medieval world. They just didn't take the last step to modernity.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not even our system. We adopted the system of our oppressors that kept it long after they abandoned it.

Imperial is not American, some might call it unAmerican

[–] Titou@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yeo but you decided to kept it