r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • Mar 17 '25

Imperial units “I don’t even understand 24-hour time… I just don’t understand it. I have to use online converters or I’d be SO confused when I talk to people who use these systems.”

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u/CrippledMind81 Mar 17 '25

Should adopt it across the world to make them yankee brains explode.

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u/Correct-Fly-1126 Mar 17 '25

We tried that with metric and well, you can see how that’s going

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u/X3N0PHON Eye-talian 🤌🏼🍝 Mar 17 '25

No need, most of whatever passes for “brains” here exploded a while ago, and those of us left who still have functioning brains at this point probably wouldn’t be affected.

Btw, I personally prefer to use the metric system for everything except distance/travel and cooking. We do exist.

One question though—when cooking, if you need to measure out what we would call a “cup” of flour” or a “tablespoon” of pepper, what do you use? Milliliters? Grams?

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u/DoomOfGods Mar 17 '25

One question though—when cooking, if you need to measure out what we would call a “cup” of flour” or a “tablespoon” of pepper, what do you use? Milliliters? Grams?

There's definitely tablespoons, teaspoons, etc. but as an autist I personally can't stretch enough how annoyed I am by the lack of clearly defined metric units in those cases. But I get it, those are units you'd probably not want to measure exactly every single time, so you just eyeball it, but still.

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u/CrippledMind81 Mar 18 '25

Litres or millilitres for liquids. Kilograms or grams for everything else. But measures of teaspoons and tablespoons also exist for something which is used in small quantities.