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Let's talk about measurements, int! Why is imperial so much
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Let's talk about measurements, int!
Why is imperial so much better than Metric?
The conversions are just so sensible:
>12 inches in a foot
>3 feet in a yard
>5.5 yards in a rod
>4 rods in a chain
>10 chains in a furlong
>8 furlongs in a mile
>~3.45234 miles in a league
"It just works"
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>>59952200
>25 Negroes in 1 teenage girl
Yep makes perfect sense.
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>>59952238
This
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>>59952200
Well, yeah, primitives always measured things with their body parts, so it makes sense you find imperial better.
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It's one of those things that's old and since it's old it's American and since it's American is great even if it sucks like the constitution or baseball.
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>>59952238
12 swedish in 1 negro
30 somalian in 1 swedish
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>mfw yuropoors are so dumb they can only count by 1
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>>59952325
>Think in football fields

Actual American military and survivalist technique.
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>>59952200
>>12 inches in a foot
>>3 feet in a yard
yards are almost exactly the same as meters, metric users can only measure things in meters which is stupid, meters/yards are only good for field measurement, like measuring walking distance. People who use meters have to use fractions of a meter because centimeters are too small to use for measuring objects like the length of a board. If I were forced to use the metric system I would divide meters into 3 metric feet and use that measurement for things like carpentry.


>>5.5 yards in a rod
>>4 rods in a chain
>>10 chains in a furlong
>>8 furlongs in a mile
>>~3.45234 miles in a league
no one uses rods, chains, furlongs(except horse racing), leagues
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>>59952293
>even if it sucks like the constitution
Fuck you Mexicant! Our constitution is great! (but you're right about baseball) Take the first amendment in the Bill of Rights, for example. There has been a lot of suppression of the critisism of islam in Europe lately. We don't allow that here, people will say whatever the fuck they want, so long as they aren't TV journalist. It's shit like the Constitution that makes us #1, despite our flaws. We're the least shitty. It's places like Mexico that are old and shitty.
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But does your car get 40 rods to the hogshead?
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>b-but I don't have to convert
every
single
time
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