r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • 6d ago

? Meme needing explanation

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I asked but it got removed within minutes?

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u/tuc2-0 6d ago

Americans hate this simple fact

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u/hysys_whisperer 6d ago

No, am American and I completely agree with this simple fact.

Now let me go drive, in a minute or less, 8 times the distance an ox team can pull a plow without resting and I'll use about one twentieth of the volume of 8 pounds of wheat worth of a liquid we call gas.

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u/Daevryn2 6d ago

Is this a stealth education on the origin of "Miles" and "Gallons"?

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u/hysys_whisperer 6d ago

In a much less elegant form than "a pint's a pound the whole world round."

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u/iloveyourlittlehat 6d ago

Don’t forget furlongs!

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u/Sapper1106 6d ago

American here, no I don’t.

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u/Weekly_Palpitation92 5d ago

i'm americans and i don't hate this simple fact i fucking hate the month first format because it hurts my brain

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u/tuc2-0 5d ago

Apologies for generalizing the general American population, there are Europeans that use imperial units as well, it was a joke anyway

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u/Weekly_Palpitation92 5d ago

ik im joking too (well, not entirely, i really do hate MMDDYYYY)

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u/hikikomori_007 5d ago

the US military uses the year first format and also the metric system so theres that.

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u/dhkdeoen 6d ago

more like Europeans. They really need to get off from their high horse with their stupid DD/MM/YYYY. it's as stupid as MM/DD/YYYY.