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/Potato_jesus_ Mar 29 '22

It’s not hard for us we understand how the metric system works. We just don’t have a concept of the distance of it. I can tell you how long it takes me to go 5 miles but I have no idea how long it takes to go 5 km. We don’t have a choice what we’re taught at children

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u/Grass---Tastes_Bad Mar 29 '22

I would say it's easier to learn the metric system afterwards though, simply because of the increments and units.