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Wow! It actually makes sense! (i.imgur.com)

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[–] quickpen 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I actually agree that the metric system has nice round numbers, but this graphic is a hilarious rebuttal to the first one that just draws pictures to make their preferred system look like it fits into the pretty pictures.

Two can play at that game, lol.

[–] Poiar 9 points 2 years ago

Eh.. The graph shows

"Inches in 8.33 feet", and those 3's will go on forever like 8.333333333333..

Its clearly meant to be a shitpost.

[–] Waves 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's actually interesting, an inch is the last knuckle of your thumb, a foot is your foot, a yard is one pace (left right left) a mile is 1000 paces

But for some reason when we standardized them so everyone's mile would be the same distance, we used a freaking giant.

Then pirates kept us from adopting the metric system