The 52% of the UK who voted for Brexit are, by all accounts, hopping mad about the metric system (or the “Napoleonic system” as some of them call it) and being forced to buy goods (other than milk and beer) in the supermarket measured in litres and grams. The Brits mocking Americans for measuring things in blue whales or monster trucks or whatever aren’t those people.

The joke is that the British, while slow, managed to learn

Pretty sure those aren't the same group of people

Same with association football aka soccer.

The imperial system isn't special, every country used to have its own measuring system and in most of Europe, the pre-metric measuring systems used to be just as dumb as imperial. Brits were a bit late with metric and still haven't fully adopted it, but that still makes them smarter than someone who sticks with the old crap.

Those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. ಠ_ಠ (they measure weight in stones wtf)

Meanwhile I’m in the UK and everything is in miles.

"Lets go down to the pub to have a liter."

American here. I really wish we'd switched to metric back when we tried in the 70s, when I was a kid.

Someday we will, I hope. Probably not in my lifetime, though.

It comes in pints?

IMO, the UK especially has no room to talk when it comes to measurement systems. They still use an unholy hodgepodge of imperial and metric and on top of that they have just a few weird as fuck things, like using 'stone' to refer to people's weight and nothing else.

Funny because the US does not use the imperial system and never has. The US made their own after their independence