Anything but Kilometers

Apr 9, 2026 1:03 AM

American measurements

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I give that crew credit. They've been able to get as far away from Trump as humanly possible.

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I see nothing wrong with using Dachshunds for measurements

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By most measures, satire rarely is in kilometers.

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Everyone knows how big a dachshund is... no one knows what a klickometer is.

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Also, I just realized that the US Army taught me to count klicks via pace count... for me it is 64/100m... so, I guess I do know how far it is....

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What is that in Smoots?

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A dachshund is like .3 smoots

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Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system.

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The funny part is that among college-educated and military-veteran Americans at least, they're fully fluent in both systems, and can do rough conversions in their head when needed.
A meter is a little longer than a yard.
A kilometer is about 0.6 miles.
A kilogram is about 2.2 pounds.

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