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.
nimeton0
I give that crew credit. They've been able to get as far away from Trump as humanly possible.
Gindipple
I see nothing wrong with using Dachshunds for measurements
ragazzino
By most measures, satire rarely is in kilometers.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Everyone knows how big a dachshund is... no one knows what a klickometer is.
bippityboppitybuttsex
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....
androgenoide
What is that in Smoots?
Exyr
A dachshund is like .3 smoots
Kyzyl
Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system.
UNHchabo
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.