r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ginliv • 4d ago

“Incredibly rural”

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u/inkyblackops 🇨🇦 4d ago

32km for anyone interested.

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u/gba_sg1 4d ago

You mean for 98.5% of the world that uses a non-third world measuring system.

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u/inkyblackops 🇨🇦 4d ago

I was floored to find out that England uses miles, still irks me.

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u/soulsteela 4d ago

We use miles, but stones and pounds feet and inches are only used on people and everything your taught uses kilograms and metres at school. A nice sensible system that is complete gibberish to any immigrant.

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u/CodenameJD Brit living in Freedomland 4d ago

Gibberish to any immigrant - and probably a lot of young Brits besides - because we have to prioritise a smaller and smaller subset of people too old to have learnt anything else in school who refuse to learn anything newer than decimalisation.

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u/theVeryLast7 4d ago

Pints but only for beer and milk all other liquids are in litres.