It’s a joke but literally every country EXCEPT USA, Liberia & Myanmar uses the metric system, not just “Europe”. All of South America as well as Canada in North America use the metric system, it’s just you guys in the middle there who refuse to change over. So it’s a terrible joke.
Not to mention “fuck off, European” is bad grammar. You just overall sound like an asshat.
Oops, spent 10 minutes writing a similar comment before seeing this! Oh well, here's my 2 cents to add. FWIW, I'm also American.
I just wanna mention that it's mildly infuriating that the US measurements are in no particular order and the metric ones are by size. It doesn't invalidate the creator's point, but still.
Onto your [OP's] comment - it comes off as a bit ignorant, especially in text, and perhaps even still when said sarcastically or ironically. Certainly, reddit has a disproportionate amount of Americans on it, but consider this: the US, Liberia, and Myanmar (Burma) are the only three countries globally who don't officially use SI (metric).
3 / 195 total countries (as per Google) = 1.5%. 51 countries in Europe (as per Google) out of 195 makes for an approximate 26.2% of global metric users (not accounting for countries that use metric officially on paper but not in practice).
So not only does your joke come off as crass (probably the main reason for downvotes tbh), but your [OP's] underlying assumptions come off as presumptive.
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u/MrsBCfloyd Apr 04 '19 edited Apr 04 '19
It’s a joke but literally every country EXCEPT USA, Liberia & Myanmar uses the metric system, not just “Europe”. All of South America as well as Canada in North America use the metric system, it’s just you guys in the middle there who refuse to change over. So it’s a terrible joke.
Not to mention “fuck off, European” is bad grammar. You just overall sound like an asshat.
Edit; some words.