Comment on How many hands long do they get?

HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But isn’t it very British to take everyone else’s shit and claim it as their own?

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Only if it’s something really old and they can put it in a museum.

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    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or words from another language.

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But they don’t do that with the metric system.

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    • FridaySteve@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The image in the OP literally says “British: hey guys, we developed a thing called the metric sy-” so your argument is with the creator…

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      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Except I don’t hear british people actually say that.

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  • knowone@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Very true. But also is for French people too though, to be fair

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