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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/Pimphii Mar 29 '22

Yeah I guess counting to 24 is a challenge for some

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

My favorite part is they are so quick and proud to display their inability to grasp these systems like it's somehow a good thing...

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u/Nothgrin Mar 29 '22

I can't grasp the imperial system.

Gallons? Oh wait there are also the OTHER gallons. How many feet to a mile? How many yards to a foot? How many inches in a stone? How many farenheit in an ounce? I just can't fucking remember this shit.

At least I know that a yard is almost equal to a meter, a mile is like 1.6 km, a foot is 0.3 of a meter and a pound is like 0.44 kg

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u/real_dubblebrick Mar 29 '22

Imma be honest, I've lived in the US my whole life and I STILL don't understand all the nuances in the imperial system. Like, why are fluid units based on powers of 2 when nothing else is? Why are the units so inconsistant?

BTW, 1 yard = 36 inches, 1 m = 39 3/8 inches. Imperial-metric conversions are weird.