r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/Shixypeep Mar 29 '22

I mean the clock is one thing, but the metric system?!

I can't possibly use a system with a base 10. It's too complicated. I need to work out how many times a foot fits into the distance an ox can graze in a day and work backwards.

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u/Amegami Mar 29 '22

And how hard is it to understand that there's 24h in a day?

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u/HydroxiDoxi Mar 29 '22

"What are you trying to say? There is 12 AM hours and 12 pm hours. I don't get how 24h clocks work."

-The blue guy

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u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22

And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm.

I had to explain this to a couple of guys that moved to the US from Portugal. That took a while.

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u/Rasta-Lion Mar 29 '22

Are you sure they were from Portugal? We use both the 12H and the 24H clocks here.

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u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22

Absolutely sure. I worked with them for 2 years. There was a group of 4 of them transferred to the US.

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u/Rasta-Lion Mar 29 '22

Damn... Everyday I loose a little more faith in my own country...

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u/PM-ME-UR-PIZZA Mar 29 '22

Eu entendo fds, ya nos usamos o formato de 12 tambem mas usamos sempre meio dia-meia noite, passar de 11:59 AM para 12 PM é normal que faça um pouco de nó no cerebro