I assume that WilliamRocket is someone who hails from the same country that for the longest time counted their money in pounds, shillings, crowns, sovereigns, farthings, and ha-pennies. And he's going to lecture Americans on using feet, yards, miles, and what-have you?
Frankly, it's for the same reason we run our horse races and auto races counter-clockwise, and why we drive on the right side of the road. Because when we threw out the Brits in 1781 (and again in 1814), we decided that we weren't gonna do anything the same way they did it. Even our version of English isn't the same as the so-called "mother tongue".
We're AMERICANS, dammit, and if you don't like it then *pffft* to you.
LOL! Am stealing.
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Why have you lot not accepted metric yet, it is easier tham Jesus.
I assume that WilliamRocket is someone who hails from the same country that for the longest time counted their money in pounds, shillings, crowns, sovereigns, farthings, and ha-pennies. And he's going to lecture Americans on using feet, yards, miles, and what-have you?
ReplyDeleteFrankly, it's for the same reason we run our horse races and auto races counter-clockwise, and why we drive on the right side of the road. Because when we threw out the Brits in 1781 (and again in 1814), we decided that we weren't gonna do anything the same way they did it. Even our version of English isn't the same as the so-called "mother tongue".
We're AMERICANS, dammit, and if you don't like it then *pffft* to you.
-"BB"-
See what happens when you make a joke about Jesus... People get cross.
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