Scary (files.mastodon.social)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 

alt textComic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats "Boo!" in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says "kg, cm, km, °C" the American gets scared and screams "AHHHH!!!".

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[–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Tax-funded health care. Making sure crazy people can't buy machine guns. Voting for reasonable candidates.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Aaaand ... DD/MM/YYYY 🫠

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    This one wouldn't make sense as they say dates as month day, year.
    To me, dates should always be written in international format: YYYY-MM-DD

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    $ 50

    Do you call this fifty dollars, or dollar fifty?

    Lots of stuff is written differently, than it is spoken. In case of the date it is weird, not to go from biggest to smallest or vice versa. I guess you are used to it now, but for me it would be the same as putting seconds before minutes or inches before feet.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    Depends on context, IMO did/mm/yyyy is the most natural when writing some text, but partial ISO yyyy-mm-dd is ideal for when naming files and directories, makes lexicographical ordering follow chronological order.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The only properly measured thing Americans bring to their schools is 9mm's 😔

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    As an American, I can confidently say I'm sick of this Imperial/SAE shit.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What really grinds my gears - literally - is having to have two sets of sockets because America. It's really gets annoying when you lose your 10mm socket and the other one isn't quite right, but you can't work out is 18/32s is close enough and then you bust a nut.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You know what pissed me off earlier this year? We took a trip from the U.S. to Canada and my Prius didn't even have the option to show kmph instead of mph on the dashboard. We looked through the manual, we looked online. My specific model doesn't allow it. Why?!

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    World work better with "socialism." Because screw capitalism.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or gun control. Or free healthcare. Or abortion. Or a free online automated tax return system.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    or public transport, ending the war on drugs, LGBTQ+ rights, fixing climate change, eating less meat, funding education, non-predatory student loans, living wage, affordable homes, ending slavery in prisons, ending corporations as people, ending super PACs and lobbying, and establishing ranked choice voting or even basic democratic concepts as one-man-one-vote.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    Except in drug deals (kg), foot races (5km), and science (°C).

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh! Oh! Try "Paid maternity leave!" porky-scared

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    America is totally used to the KKK

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    @burgers if metric sucks so bad why do you use it for your guns

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Arma players are more at home with km than miles because they never leave the basement to use it irl

    (jk I am that guy)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    me to imperial measurements: i am going to kill you

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