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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

You might have noticed. It's kind of our thing, doing things differently from the rest of the world for no good reason.

Different measuring system

Different cars

Different health care system

Different social ethics

Different system of government

Very few trains

We're just a bunch of silly dumbasses here.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I mean there is a good reason.... And that reason is, which I will state in this comment, is that the reason is very good in terms of the fact that hereby unto forthwith hence that reason is valid.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're not, you're aware of that.

But some people are super America-centric and can't imagine switching to anything unamerican.

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

So what you're saying is, I can make 800 venison hamburgers from a single deer? Nice.

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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Of course then when you ask how tall a bicycle is they'll tell you it's about as tall as a deer. Damn useless

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

About... yea high. Like, two dozen hamburgers.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Round 'bout two dogs worth of cheese, yeah.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you, I have a good sense of the height now.

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

you people still don't use metric time.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

To be fair: if anyone's going to intuitively know the weight of 800 hamburgers, Americans are it. :)

Also, I'm not entirely opposed to using "every day" analogies for stuff like this.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

800 hamburgers just sounds like a challenge.

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