America won’t give an inch in the war with the metric system – 11 hilarious takedowns
We laughed when UKIP wanted to bring back imperial measures, but it looks like they weren’t the only right-wingers desperate to buy their apples by the pound, if this clip from Fox News is anything to go by.
god this shit fucking sucks so much pic.twitter.com/A4EtF4ylWi
— jordan (@JordanUhl) June 6, 2019
Of course, America still has the imperial system, so for them it’s more a case of holding back the tide, rather than turning it. This is how people have been reacting to Tucker Carlson and James Panero’s fervent exchange.
1.
How many centimeters are 2 one-inch dickheads? https://t.co/DZzxIaKJq4
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) June 9, 2019
2.
You know who uses the metric system? North Korea.
You know who else uses the metric system? ISIS.
I mean, join the dots, peoplepic.twitter.com/W3sti1bFPi— christoph (@Halalcoholism) June 6, 2019
3.
https://twitter.com/nahkrou/status/1136447488137867264
4.
Robespierre is trying to ruin grandma’s chicken pot pie recipe and only *eagle scream* can stop him. https://t.co/XeRBDNfIVj
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) June 9, 2019
5.
I HATE THINGS BEING DIVISIBLE BY TEN. FREEDOM TO ME MEANS HAVING TO LOOK UP CONVERSION TABLES https://t.co/7pPQmbglPD
— spilly (@IAmSpilly) June 6, 2019
6.
https://twitter.com/joelymack/status/1137116688049217536
7.
FUCK YOU METRIC SYSTEM WE LIKE INCHES!
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) June 6, 2019
8.
I can't stop watching this send help https://t.co/6mkjRr3g2H
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) June 8, 2019
9.
So crazy ! Wonder if these guys also refuse to do "Arabic" algebra. https://t.co/sNafnFbc3z
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) June 7, 2019
10.
https://twitter.com/steckel/status/1136825825070788608
11.
“We shall fight in the produce aisle, we shall fight at the gas pumps, we shall fight in the weather forecasts and in the IKEA, we shall fight in the malls; we shall never surrender”. 🙄 https://t.co/m24wx1Rm34
— Tom Harrington (@cbctom) June 8, 2019
Professor Brian Cox had a bit of news for the metric mutineers.
Wait until he hears that the second is defined as the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom! https://t.co/EFhnjQdYcg
— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) June 8, 2019
Sounds exactly like something Fox News viewers could get their heads around.
Source: taskandpurpose.com
H/T: Jordan Uhl
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