Yah, but who really cares about any of those other countries anyway? As far as I am concerned there's only two countries in the world the US and every where else. So, by my logic, half of the countries of the world use the imperial system. So :P

Should use a Base 12 system... much better.

...and my stomach thanks to subway...

No! Hexidecimal! Base 16! Hexidecimal is the numbering system of the GODS!

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Now that we have that out of the way, look at the KITTEN game! What the game tells you is 30m is clearly not 30m, it's far closer to 30 feet.

Blatant American Exceptionalism strikes again! It's almost as bad as religious fundamentalism.... almost.

Edit: no offense to anyone who happens to be either one though

What if... oh my god.

Wait, guys. Oh my-, wait. Just, just wait. Oh my god. Breathe. Oh man. I think I got it. I think I GOT IT! I understa- holy kitten. This is, great SCOTT, this is unbelievable.

What if, just. Just wait for it. Wait. What if, ready? What if we are all GIANTS, and 30m actually looks like 30 feet!

But OP is stupid if his complaint is that 30 meters looks like 30 feet. If so, he should be saying "Hey CCP, why does it say 30 meters when it looks like 10 meters?"

When everything is obviously scaled by feet?
Seriously though

Now that we have that out of the way, look at the KITTEN game! What the game tells you is 30m is clearly not 30m, it's far closer to 30 feet. So since you're all oh so proud of the metric system, how about you ask CCP why they've decided to r*pe it?

When everything is obviously scaled by feet?
Seriously though

Everything American sucks. Learn the Metric system.

Everything American sucks. Learn the Metric system.

When everything is obviously scaled by feet?
Seriously though

All speeds should be measured in furlongs per fortnight.

You learn to not need our help every 5 minutes then.

ALL OF EUROPE: "Oh no, whatever shall we do, there is another tinpot dictator at our doorstep?"

'MURICA: "Hmmm, looks like another idiot screwing with those guys I saved and am therefore responsible for."

AOE: "Oh yes sir, whatever you want sir, would you like our countries on a platter, or just in a to-go bag?"

'MURICA: "Okay, ass stomping boots... check. Democratic election framework plans... check. Good reason... eh, I'll figure it out on the way."

AOE: "oh if only there were some backbone leftover from the knights of old, left spinning in their graves due to what bureaucratic ninnies we've become, we could stop you tinpot!"

TINPOT: "Hahaha-"

*'MURICA Burst through the door, knocks TINPOT out*

AOE: "Thank you 'MURICA, you bunch of bible reading, gun toting, sociopaths. Get the hell out of here, we had this all squared away until you showed up!"

'MURICA: "Sure you did, kiddo. Call me when you need me again next week!"

*'MURRICA exit stage right*

AOE: "Thank god 'MURICA was here, but never let them know, it will go to their head. just keep with the insults."

*Curtain*

This hasn't been true since WWII, but I'll leave it at that instead of staring a debate on it. For the record, I'm American.

And they will never live that down. if someone is on your doorstep demanding you give everything to to them, do you entertain that notion?(appeasement)

America doesn't. We laugh in the uppity little bastard's face and slam the door, or wait until he steps just enough out of line to justify taking him down hard.

knew I should have left that line in there

the original version read the same, except for one difference

"America doesn't(current president notwithstanding)"

figured it would set off some kind of political firestorm, and it is waaay to early in the morning for that.

Just to throw this in here at the UK we are more messed up

we use both equally

if you ask people thier hieight they will say 6'3" and not 190cm same with car speed its 60 mph not 100 km

but all our food and stuff is sold in kg and ml except beer, when i lived in holland i felt cheated when i got a large beer and got 500ml, wheres my other 68ml :(

Because once upon a time a foot used to be a foot's length, in particular the king of england's. His thumb an Inch, his stride a yard, so on and so forth. When you got a new king however all the previous measurements had to be redone and people did not like this system at all. So the smart people who where between two kingdoms wanted to have a unit of measurement that would not change between two kings of two nations or generations.

So ledgend goes two scientist got a stick of iron, made two marks and between the two marks made 10 perfect marks and made those into perfect 10 sections of each as well. Thus a meter was born! The stick was then 'weigthed' and thus a kilogram, then the iron was smelted into a bowl and the water it contained was a liter!

You learn to not need our help every 5 minutes then.

ALL OF EUROPE: "Oh no, whatever shall we do, there is another tinpot dictator at our doorstep?"

'MURICA: "Hmmm, looks like another idiot screwing with those guys I saved and am therefore responsible for."

AOE: "Oh yes sir, whatever you want sir, would you like our countries on a platter, or just in a to-go bag?"

'MURICA: "Okay, ass stomping boots... check. Democratic election framework plans... check. Good reason... eh, I'll figure it out on the way."

AOE: "oh if only there were some backbone leftover from the knights of old, left spinning in their graves due to what bureaucratic ninnies we've become, we could stop you tinpot!"

TINPOT: "Hahaha-"

*'MURICA Burst through the door, knocks TINPOT out*

AOE: "Thank you 'MURICA, you bunch of bible reading, gun toting, sociopaths. Get the hell out of here, we had this all squared away until you showed up!"

'MURICA: "Sure you did, kiddo. Call me when you need me again next week!"

*'MURRICA exit stage right*

AOE: "Thank god 'MURICA was here, but never let them know, it will go to their head. just keep with the insults."

*Curtain*