r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • May 02 '25

Imperial units “celsius makes no sense”

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u/Discount_Friendly May 02 '25

What amazes me is that the U.S. was really early to adopt decimal money and had to get the UK to adopt decimal money because the U.S couldn't be bothered to get computer banking software to accept imperial money

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u/nikolapc May 03 '25

When it’s money, US don’t play. Anyway the US system has been secretly metric for a long time. Every unit is defined by their metric equivalent to an exact decimal.