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Comic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats “Boo!” in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says “kg, cm, km, °C” the American gets scared and screams “AHHHH!!!”.

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Y’all are just jealous because we’re not afraid of fractions

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What’s even worse is that when they use SI units they don’t even spell them right. They write meters whereas the rest of the world writes metres

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Nah, in Dutch it’s meter (plural: meters) too

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spelling is hard why make it harder by spelling it “metres”

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To help distinguish metre, as in length, from a meter, as in volt-meter.

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Thats why we call it a volt-meter, or amp-meter or a parking-meter.

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Well how would I know if they teach me it’s meters and not metres, hmm?

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They are one of the founding members of the Metre Convention

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Idk I get through life fine without all that. Never understood why people care so much.

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Arma players are more at home with km than miles because they never leave the basement to use it irl

(jk I am that guy)

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