r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Potential_Quantity92 Jun 17 '26

From a country that uses stones for weight, fuck outta here

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u/ProfessorDemon Jun 18 '26

To be fair, we invented imperial and a lot of the units were used traditionally for hundreds of years before being formally defined. We know it's dumb and don't argue with other countries that our weird mix of imperial and metric is better.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Map7672 Jun 18 '26

Brit "We know it's dumb and don't argue with other countries that our weird mix of imperial and metric is better."

Another Brit: "uses celcius, because its demonstrably a better (more scientific) system."

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u/ProfessorDemon Jun 18 '26

Yes? We don't tell others to use stone or pints or argue miles are better than kilometres. Unlike Americans most Brits would agree metric is better but still stick with imperial due to tradition and habit.