Four bananas deep, half the size of a giraffe and the weight of three apples... While the rest of us get by just fine using the good, old metric system, our friends in America are always daring to be different.
The International System of Units (SI) is a base-10 decimal system used by almost the entire planet. Think meters, centimeters, kilometers or grams. The US customary or imperial system, on the other hand, prefers to count in inches, feet, yards, miles, stones or sometimes even tomatoes. To 'simplify' matters, Americans have devised this clever trick: To remember how many feet there are in a mile, think of “five tomatoes” because it sounds like “five two eight oh.” Wait, what?
There's an entire online community dedicated to shining a light on the United States' strange way of measuring things. Anything But Metric is a laugh a minute, or a pint... or a potato. The posts prove that Americans will do anything to avoid using a system that's worked just fine for pretty much everyone else. Here are some perfect examples.
#1 Found This Hilarious
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#2 IDK If This Has Been Posted Here Before Or Not But I Laughed
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#3 The Sauce Kitten Has Grew
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#4 Calibrated Banana
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#5 Imagine Some 9mm Rounds
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#6 Poster In My School
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#7 'miles' Per Hours
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#8 The New River Gorge Bridge Is Obviously One Monument And Two Statues Tall
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#9 Now That's A Unit I Can Get Behind!
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#10 ?
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#11 Giraffe
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#12 Banana For Scale
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#13 Banana For Scale
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#14 City The Size Of A Junction
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#15 Frightened Corgis For Scale
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#16 How To Measure Things Like A Canadian
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#17 Traffic Cone
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#18 Oh We Know. We Just Don't Care
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#19 Paper-Towel
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#20 Found This Masterpiece On Insta
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#21 Even Canada Is To Blame!!
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#22 My Phone Is Exactly One Octave Long
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#23 So Big
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#24 Iguanas Freezing Or Not Freezing
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#25 Wind Speed
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#26 See You In A Shrek
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#27 Maximum Pdf Size
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#28 A 3 Year Old Tadpole That Didn't Turn Into A Frog. Banana On Left For Scale
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#29 Found On Facebook
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#30 Asian Woman
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#31 How Many Metrics Is This
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#32 There Is No K In Thousand
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#33 Celsius Just Isn’t Logical…
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#34 The Mcdonals System
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#35 Literally What
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#36 Snow Flamingo
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#37 I Don't Think This Arm Has Been Calibrated
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#38 Yes
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#39 An Inch Is An Inch, Maybe?!?
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#40 Anything But Metric
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#41 886 Cans Of Spam
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#42 Canada
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#43 2.8 Million Ten-Year-Olds
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#44 800 Hamburgers
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#45 A Pineapple
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#46 Deer As A Volume
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#47 Of Course My Favourite Measurement System "American"
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#48 I Think This Deserves To Be In Here Too
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#49 Bigger Than A School Bus And Eyes The Size Of A Large Pizza
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#50 New Unit Of Volume Dropped
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#51 I'm Not Surprised
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#52 Apples Are Better Than Centimeters
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#53 Banana For Scale
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#54 I’m 5 Chairs Long
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#55 This Banana The Size Of My Forearm
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#56 But How Many Bananas?
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#57 It’s One Philometer
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#58 Ariana Grande
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#59 Gotta Borrow Her Dog
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#60 Conversion So Difficult, Nobody Knows The Right Value
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#61 Half A Person
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#62 Splat
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#63 A Toaster
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#64 The Calculator On My Computer Convert Distance To Airplanes
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#65 Exactly One Child
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#66 We May Need A New Unit Of Measurement Now
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#67 Oh, Okay Then
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#68 From The BBC's Quiz About How Big 1 Trillion Is
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#69 Are These 2 Or 4 Slice Toasters?
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#70 Tiresome
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#71 What's A Stan?
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#72 Looks Fun
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