Can we all stop making the football field/alligator/sedan/truck measure of length joke?
If you want to clown on Americans, quit using the imperial units at all! Be better than us, don’t stoop to our level and spit in our hair.
Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group.
You may see it has a clever, pithy joke but it is feeding American anti-intellectualism due to the pygmalion effect. Treat someone like they’re going to be stupid, and they’re going to be stupid.
xerox13ster|6 months ago
If you want to clown on Americans, quit using the imperial units at all! Be better than us, don’t stoop to our level and spit in our hair.
Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group.
You may see it has a clever, pithy joke but it is feeding American anti-intellectualism due to the pygmalion effect. Treat someone like they’re going to be stupid, and they’re going to be stupid.
jebarker|6 months ago
I agree with your overall comment. I’m interested what value you’ve found in actually switching to metric day to day?
dagw|6 months ago
Sebb767|6 months ago