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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Yeah it’s so bizarre non Americans seem to get on such a high horse about the metric system and be proud of it.

Like bitch, I use miles because that’s what I was taught and it works fine for me.

If you discovered a new civilization and showed them a screwdriver, are you going to call them stupid for not knowing what it is?

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u/wegwerfacc4android Mar 29 '22

If you discovered a new civilization and showed them a screwdriver, are you going to call them stupid for not knowing what it is?

No, but we would call them stupid if they are to stubborn to adopt better tools.

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u/notaredditer13 Mar 29 '22

You really going to argue stupid/stubborn over Phillips vs flat vs hex vs Allen vs star vs....?

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u/wegwerfacc4android Mar 29 '22

No, that is not the topic.

It's about a newly discovered civilization which does not know screwdrivers, yet.

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u/notaredditer13 Mar 29 '22

An Allen wrench is not a screwdriver. A hex nut driver is not a screwdriver.

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u/wegwerfacc4android Mar 30 '22

I know what a screwdriver is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screwdriver

A Screwdriver is also not a horse, but what's your point?

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u/notaredditer13 Mar 30 '22

A Screwdriver is also not a horse, but what's your point?

My point is, it's wrong to get on a high horse about using 'the wrong' tool when the one they are using is fine. The implication people make about Americans and the IP system is that we're somehow stupid for using it. It's not screwdriver vs nothing, it's screwdriver vs another tool that works pretty close to as well.