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Anything But Metric

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Americans will use anything but metric

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[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The Statue of Liberty is French.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

That's the joke

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah, it's American now, just like pizza, football, and Christianity. If it touches these Purple Mountains Majesty™©®, it belongs to us. Shit, even if it doesn't touch us, but has, like, some cool stuff that we want, then that's our's too. It's our Manifest Destiny.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

America

First off, we don't want anything French -- I'll remind you we renamed "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries".

Second, we use the standard "blue whale" as a unit for large volumes.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, we're still bitter about it. Give us back the statue of Liberty, and good old Louisana before that idiot of an emperor sold it to you.

Make France Great Again!

Your new national dish shall be croissants and ratatouille if you don't comply.

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We colonized croissants a looooong time ago, pal! Or have you not heard of Burger King's Le Croissandwich?

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

You're right, Burger King was always good in France compared to the other fastfood places. I give up.

You aren't stealing our gumbo from us!

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I'm really hoping that was the commenter's joke because it's great