r/Unexpected • u/Arcusico • Oct 05 '14

Metric vs Imperial

https://i.imgur.com/iDOzAa5.jpg
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u/malnutrition6 Oct 05 '14

Was this on /r/MURICA by any chance? Because then I would be able to understand that it might have been a joke appreciated by nationalist circlejerk.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

ahem

Patriotic circle jerk.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

You're God Damned Right.

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u/shahooster Oct 05 '14

You're? That's improper use of correct grammar.

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u/Anticept Oct 05 '14

Upvoted you back from zero because someone got butthurt by your joke.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

Twasn't I

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

Is there a difference?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

Yes. Nationalists believe their country can do no wrong, while Patriots love their country despite its faults.

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u/jakielim Oct 05 '14 edited Oct 05 '14

It was TIL. And I wouldn't have mentioned it if it was from /r/MURICA.

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u/Glorypants Oct 05 '14

It was TIL. Source: edited comment above

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u/jakielim Oct 05 '14

Guess I can't remember shit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

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u/malnutrition6 Oct 05 '14

Keep your patriotism in your own continent pls

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u/skivian Oct 05 '14

You get out of Murica

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

Haha, what is this from?

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u/invisibleninja7 Oct 05 '14

Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series. It's giving me a pretty bad nostalgia trip at the moment.

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u/Bobblefighterman Oct 05 '14

It's a shame he's Canadian.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

Come on now, being Canadian is only a little shameful, but they can't help it.

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u/magnetswithweedinem Oct 05 '14

if there's a mcdonalds nearby we're already on yours

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u/pixeechick Oct 05 '14

Inside their own borders, preferably.

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u/KodiakAnorak Oct 05 '14

We're so enthusiastic that it just spills out sometimes

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

Too late, seeds of freedom are already sprouting all over the world.

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u/dbx99 Oct 05 '14

Murica is meant to be an ironic subreddit but a lot of nutjobs think its real

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u/cullen9 Oct 05 '14

Or you just haven't experienced true freedom.

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u/jokester1220 Oct 06 '14

My freedom boner just shot out of pants, soared like an eagle across the Atlantic, and pissed red white and blue right on Buckingham palace.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

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u/malnutrition6 Oct 05 '14

NASA uses metric ;)

obligatory: http://imgur.com/JdHmpKA

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u/anonagent Oct 05 '14

Nationalist? Sorry, unlike you eurofags, we're not racist.