America won’t give an inch in the war with the metric system – 11 hilarious takedowns
We laughed when UKIP wanted to bring back imperial measures, but it looks like they weren’t the only right-wingers desperate to buy their apples by the pound, if this clip from Fox News is anything to go by.
god this shit fucking sucks so much pic.twitter.com/A4EtF4ylWi
— jordan (@JordanUhl) June 6, 2019
Of course, America still has the imperial system, so for them it’s more a case of holding back the tide, rather than turning it. This is how people have been reacting to Tucker Carlson and James Panero’s fervent exchange.
1.
How many centimeters are 2 one-inch dickheads? https://t.co/DZzxIaKJq4
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) June 9, 2019
2.
You know who uses the metric system? North Korea.
You know who else uses the metric system? ISIS.
I mean, join the dots, peoplepic.twitter.com/W3sti1bFPi— Christoph (@Halalcoholism) June 6, 2019
3.
this is the funniest thing to be mad about it. I love it, we need to keep teaspoons because of my grandma https://t.co/vHD9k80634
— Mobile Suit Islam (@nahkrou) June 6, 2019
4.
Robespierre is trying to ruin grandma’s chicken pot pie recipe and only *eagle scream* can stop him. https://t.co/XeRBDNfIVj
— hend amry (@LibyaLiberty) June 9, 2019
5.
I HATE THINGS BEING DIVISIBLE BY TEN. FREEDOM TO ME MEANS HAVING TO LOOK UP CONVERSION TABLES https://t.co/7pPQmbglPD
— Spilly (@IAmSpilly) June 6, 2019
6.
https://twitter.com/joelymack/status/1137116688049217536
7.
FUCK YOU METRIC SYSTEM WE LIKE INCHES!
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) June 6, 2019
8.
I can't stop watching this send help https://t.co/6mkjRr3g2H
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) June 8, 2019
9.
So crazy ! Wonder if these guys also refuse to do "Arabic" algebra. https://t.co/sNafnFbc3z
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) June 7, 2019
10.
holy shit the video is 100x better than the still image ever could have led me to believe pic.twitter.com/SP4WVlZeu1
— spectacle.txt (@steckel) June 7, 2019
11.
https://twitter.com/cbctom/status/1137397737501220864
Professor Brian Cox had a bit of news for the metric mutineers.
Wait until he hears that the second is defined as the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom! https://t.co/EFhnjQdYcg
— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) June 8, 2019
Sounds exactly like something Fox News viewers could get their heads around.
Source: taskandpurpose.com
H/T: Jordan Uhl
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