Hey now, let’s be fair. Y’all also be measuring in these.
I assume from the “y’all” that you’re talking as an American?
For your information, stone is an English and British unit of measurement, used in the UK and Ireland for bodyweight.
Continental Europe doesn’t use it, even colloquially, because we like our measurement systems to make sense.
But I can see how an American would generalise Europe based on the stereotypes they have for Britain, as it happens pretty frequently.
I can see how an American would generalise Europe
Said with absolutely zero irony
I laughed so hard when I saw that. How can some people on Lemmy be so incredibly unaware of themselves?
'murican overestimates regional differences in 'murica while underestimating regional differences in Europe. In unrelated news, anglophone can’t stop thinking anglocentrically.
The whole post is about generalising Europe vs US. The comment I replied to generalises Europeans. But you get offended when someone notes how bad a particular generalisation about Europe was?
Oki
It was a joke response to a joke post about measuring things in different ways which happens around the world. It’s pretty funny that you’re cool with generalizing all Americans but the second someone points out that some Europeans measure differently too you’re suddenly defensive about it.
I love it when you get offended when people throw your jokes back at you.
Even the UK National Health Service uses kilograms by default, not stones. So saying “y’all also measure in stones” is akin to saying that “y’all Americans believe in segregation” because there’s still some racist grandpas who think it was better that way.
I assume from the assumptions and generalizations that you’re talking as a d-bag? I can see how a douche would generalize based on the stereotypes they have for nice, reasonable people, as it happens pretty frequently.
I’m generalising for humor.
You know, like OP, and the person I replied to?
You can’t take a joke when it’s aimed at you? ;>
That is a bit unfair, in Europe we measure with the fraction of the earth’ circumference, so the meme go accordingly
Sadly, incorrect:
Since 2019 the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second
So no one is asking for a source?
Maybe I should go to America to see a taylor.
