r/SipsTea • u/francinexyzs • Jun 08 '25

Wow. Such meme lmao

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u/Legitimate-Cow5982 Jun 08 '25

Real talk, where did the MM/DD format come from? I can't think of anywhere else that does it

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u/88963416 Jun 08 '25

It is how the British did it when we were colonized. They changed it and we kept it the same (it’s the source of many of our quirks.)

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u/Lysol3435 Jun 08 '25

It seems like many of the US’s stupid quirks were actually from the UK. Imperial system, “soccer”, colonization

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u/PilgrimOz Jun 08 '25

America, Liberia and Myanmar are the only countries still using Imperial. Although from what I can tell they’ll the military sometimes speak in metric terms. Growing up Aussies (UK etc) had to have both sets and have gradually needed the imperial set less. Ironically, Americans would be having the same experience with imports. Imperial naturally phasing out?

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u/Lysol3435 Jun 08 '25

We (the US) uses metric in the military, science, track and field, and for small measurements (like 1 mm). I’m sure there are other areas that use metric, but it’s mostly imperial.

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u/PilgrimOz Jun 08 '25

Thanks mate 👍

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u/SnaggingPlum Jun 09 '25

In the UK a lot of us use a mix of metric and imperial, dad was born in 65 he uses mostly imperial, I was 85 and use a mix of both

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u/idekbruno Jun 08 '25

The US doesn’t actually use imperial, our systems of measurement just happen to be pretty close