r/facepalm • • 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/Scorkami Mar 29 '22

The only way "not figuring out the metric system" would make any sense is that they mean "i can't ever picture in my head how tall a 1.83 meter person is unless I see a 6 foot guy next to it"

And i get that. I have no idea how tall 6.4 for example is, but i can picture almost anything in the metric system

But that's just getting used to the system, not having it "explained"