I’m reminded of Bender:

“This isn’t even about you”

“That’s impossible!”

Technology Connections!

Speaking as an American - an electric kettle. Just a thing that plugs into the wall and boils water.

I use it for tea, of course, but I also use it any time I need boiling water for something, because it’s faster than a kettle sitting on the stove and it doesn’t use gas.

Potatoes are so easy to grow. You can grow a lot of them in a trash can full of dirt.

I’m enjoying all the comments where people are seething about manual transmissions amd they don’t need to drive one, because they forgot its a meme.

I drove my Samurai today. I don’t think any of them even had automatics.

My wife and I have opposing chirality.

We are able to both use the same stove to cook on, so long as we both use the correct side. Cooking together is something we do often.

The US exports a lot of food. Are you sure you don’t eat any?

Yeah I’m 230 and 6ft and I look skinny next to that guy.

You’re showing -8 as of right now, so I’m not sure about that.

How is it hard? Aren’t people in the rest of the world much better educated than people in the US?

Except they do use the metric system, all their imperial units are defined by metric units.

Because it doesn’t have as much resolution as Fahrenheit.

There are 180 degrees between freezing water and boiling water in °F. But 100 degrees between the two in °C. So with Fahrenheit we can give mote accurate temperature info without resorting to decimal degrees. And if your response is “learn to handle decimals” then the same argument can be given for inches vs mm.

If you grow up in the US, you learn both systems and you’re able to convert between them. It’s easy.

2.2 pounds to the kg

1 inch is 25.4 mm

A gallon is 3.8 liters

But it’s fun watching supposedly intelligent people from other countries who reeeeeee when seeing imperial units.

I like this

Are they trying to make someone even lazier than me?

And this is why I always have a bunch of marking and numbers and other vandalism on whatever board or piece of material I’m using.

Everywhere I’ve worked, you’d “burn an inch” or “burn a foot” meaning you don’t use the metal tab, you hold the 1" or 1’ mark at the start and measure from there.

Oh I could see how that would trap someone. It would trap me but I’m not a programmer. 😆

I was expected to know that one was stainless steel and the other was aluminum, but not the specific grades of stainless or aluminum. Stainless and aluminum can look very similar when they’re dirty, and 300 series stainless won’t stick to a magnet just like aluminum won’t stick to a magnet. But if you pick them up or even rap on them with your knuckles you can tell the difference.

We had a guy we called “10/16” (ten sixteenths) because he was told to grab some 5/8" (0.625" or 16mm) steel plate, but he couldn’t find any he could only find 10/16" and 12/16".

People will count the little lines on the tape and not remember if they are 1/32, 1/16, or 1/8.

I think metric would help this.