Four bananas deep, half the size of a giraffe and the weight of three apples… While the rest of us get by just fine using the good, old metric system, our friends in America are always daring to be different.
The International System of Units (SI) is a base-10 decimal system used by almost the entire planet. Think meters, centimeters, kilometers or grams. The US customary or imperial system, on the other hand, prefers to count in inches, feet, yards, miles, stones or sometimes even tomatoes. To ‘simplify’ matters, Americans have devised this clever trick: To remember how many feet there are in a mile, think of “five tomatoes” because it sounds like “five two eight oh.” Wait, what?
There’s an entire online community dedicated to shining a light on the United States’ strange way of measuring things. Anything But Metric is a laugh a minute, or a pint… or a potato. The posts prove that Americans will do anything to avoid using a system that’s worked just fine for pretty much everyone else. Here are some perfect examples.
#1 The Sauce Kitten Has Grew
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#2 Calibrated Banana
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#3 Found This Hilarious
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#4 IDK If This Has Been Posted Here Before Or Not But I Laughed
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#5 My Phone Is Exactly One Octave Long
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#6 Banana For Scale
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#7 ?
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#8 Banana For Scale
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#9 City The Size Of A Junction
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#10 A 3 Year Old Tadpole That Didn’t Turn Into A Frog. Banana On Left For Scale
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#11 Asian Woman
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#12 How Many Metrics Is This
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#13 Oh We Know. We Just Don’t Care
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#14 Celsius Just Isn’t Logical…
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#15 The New River Gorge Bridge Is Obviously One Monument And Two Statues Tall
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#16 Now That’s A Unit I Can Get Behind!
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#17 Even Canada Is To Blame!!
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#18 So Big
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#19 I Don’t Think This Arm Has Been Calibrated
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#20 Iguanas Freezing Or Not Freezing
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#21 Yes
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#22 Giraffe
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#23 An Inch Is An Inch, Maybe?!?
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#24 Wind Speed
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#25 Anything But Metric
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#26 886 Cans Of Spam
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#27 Canada
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#28 Frightened Corgis For Scale
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#29 How To Measure Things Like A Canadian
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#30 Traffic Cone
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#31 ‘miles’ Per Hours
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#32 There Is No K In Thousand
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#33 2.8 Million Ten-Year-Olds
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#34 Paper-Towel
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#35 800 Hamburgers
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#36 A Pineapple
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#37 The Mcdonals System
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#38 Deer As A Volume
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#39 Of Course My Favourite Measurement System “American”
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#40 I Think This Deserves To Be In Here Too
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#41 Found This Masterpiece On Insta
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#42 Literally What
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#43 Snow Flamingo
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#44 Bigger Than A School Bus And Eyes The Size Of A Large Pizza
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#45 New Unit Of Volume Dropped
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#46 Apples Are Better Than Centimeters
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#47 Banana For Scale
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#48 I’m 5 Chairs Long
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#49 This Banana The Size Of My Forearm
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#50 But How Many Bananas?
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#51 It’s One Philometer
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#52 Ariana Grande
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#53 See You In A Shrek
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#54 Maximum Pdf Size
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#55 Gotta Borrow Her Dog
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#56 Conversion So Difficult, Nobody Knows The Right Value
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#57 Half A Person
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#58 Poster In My School
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#59 Splat
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#60 Found On Facebook
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#61 A Toaster
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#62 The Calculator On My Computer Convert Distance To Airplanes
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#63 Exactly One Child
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#64 Imagine Some 9mm Rounds
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#65 We May Need A New Unit Of Measurement Now
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#66 I’m Not Surprised
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#67 Oh, Okay Then
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#68 From The BBC’s Quiz About How Big 1 Trillion Is
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#69 Are These 2 Or 4 Slice Toasters?
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#70 Tiresome
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#71 What’s A Stan?
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#72 Looks Fun
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#73 Censored Title
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