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The USA does not, and has NEVER used the Imperial System of measures.
They use US Customary Measures, which are essentially the measures used by the British Empire in 1776. In the 1820s the British overhauled their measures and created the Imperial System; obviously the USA weren't going to adopt this system.
While the names of the units are basically the same, there are differences – some slight, some significant. In the 1950s the International Yard was defined (in metric, of course). However, volume and weight measures retain significant differences. While the pound is basically the same in both systems, the Imperial Stone is a unit that doesn't exist in the US Customary Measures (it is 14 pounds); where the US hundredweight is 100 pounds, there are 112 pounds in the Imperial hundredweight (8 stone). Both systems have 20 hundredweight in a ton, so there are 2000 pounds in the US ton and 2240 in the Imperial ton ('short ton' and 'long ton' respectively).
The US gallon is only ⅘ the size of the Imperial gallon, which is odd in pubs and disastrous if you're following a recipe from the other side of the Atlantic.
Am I the only one that noticed they went from #3 Pledge of Allegiance to #4 Prescription drug commercials to #3 again for Put months before days? Counting is hard, apparently.
Seems to me none of the 20 has anything to do with free or brave.
Not just even being able to vote but u can go into army service and come out n still not be legal age to drink yet🤔
Er. You (intentionally) missed legal gay marriages, false gender dysphoria, same drugs being administered to 4 year olds that cause chemical castration in serial offenders, and a few dozen other things, like binging on cheese burgers and fentanyl.
We call ourselves "America" because it's the only country in the north or south with "America" in it's name. So people shorten it to America or US.
Wow America is so cool and so much better, I would really consider moving there if I were reading this comment
A 9mm for breakfast
"Welcome to WatchMojo's top 20 ways on brainwashing through corporatocracy."
Tell me the Watchmojo team is politically biased without telling me 😂😂 parts of this video are like political campaign ads for Democrats 😂😂
Canada has ads for some prescription drugs, but THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY WHAT THE DRUGS DO! 🤣
As an American, I can confidently say that we don’t find most of these “normal,” we just have no other choice
not knowing that the W in Moscow is silent
In México tip is a must and we use Solo cups at every party
Not all Americans own firearms, although it does vary from state to state. The first time I ever touched or fired a gun was Army basic training. I'm from New Jersey. Gun ownership is more common in places like North Carolina, Alaska, and Texas.
You pay the most for your groceries from pharmacy. The mark-up is ridiculously insane.
17. Be careful what groceries you buy at the Pharmacy. Like milk, seems like it's always spoiled when I check.
14:07 As an American I'd like to imagine that the rest of my neighbors have better trigger discipline than Frank Reynolds.
work too much? ask any Japanese, Korean, Chinese they will lol
American cheese is gross to people from other countries.
I was married to a german and learned to make german bread because ours is like air.
The flag thing is true but they find it odd that we wear clothes that look like flags.
I dont think its odd that i go everywhere armed. I dont drink and it can happen anywhere. Even in safe cities. Im retired military and want to protect my family. Dogs included. 😊
I live in a very safe city now and there was a gunfight in a parking lot near where my son and i went for coffee. Of all the cars, the guy running from two guys with guns, jumps in my car. I left it unlocked so my windows wouldnt get broken. Anyway, the guy took two bullets in the stomach and lived. My car was shot over 8 times. Including down through the sunroof. On second thought, dont come to the US. Too dangerous
0:50 i agree that referring to the United States as "America 2" does seem odd but i hope America 3 is in 3D.
It shocks me that this many other Americans like (and want to keep) the imperial system of measurement.
Sure, the imperial system is familiar to me (I've used it my whole life), but rationally I know that if we all switched it would be annoying for about a month, and then we would all come to love metric.
There are so many inaccuracies here:
– Space components are not measured in inches and feet
– The UK measures road distances in miles
– Canada uses MM/DD/YR format
– Students sing "oh, Canada" at the beginning of a school day (most provinces)
– Not everyone owns a gun and especially doesn't show them off on a TV interview (Devito was drunk)
– Liquor is not a taboo in almost every country outside the US and sold in practically every establishment
– The US dollar is the legal currency of Ecuador, El Salvador and East Timor
One good thing about the US is the low cost of soft drinks – it’s a kick in the teeth being the designated driver on a night out in the UK and being charged almost as much for a soft drink from a soda gun as a pint of beer.
How about calling a toilet a bathroom. Are Seppo's too embarrassed to call a shithouse a toilet?
Most US Americans don’t even hold a passport and thus are deeply ignorant of what happens overseas. They seem to have no idea of how much those of us who live in the free world laugh at their dysfunctionality.
damn y'all don't think we love peanut butter? in the Philippines we have peanut butter soup
Boots carried candy, snacks and milk when I was there. This was about 30 years ago.
American wait staff don't get paid enough to live without tips.
All countries have their funny little quirks.
But the USA's self indoctrination of how great they want to think they are is a bit sus.
New England, New York or Halifax in Canada
The problem with Canada is that its next door to the US&A heavily influencing Canadian culture whatever that is…
Well, the USA did switch to the Metric system with The Metric Conversion Act of 1975, unfortunately the USC system was still allowed in everything. So instead of slowly converting to Metric, it just remained a country using the USC system.
The pledge thing is ridiculous, and has been for 40+ years.
Back in the early 70s they began to push the metric system; they told us that by the time we were adults that would be the norm. Then it just sort of went away; they just let it go.
Are we absolutely sure the USA use "Imperial"? An Imperial pint is 20 fl oz, where in the US it is 16, making the colonial US gallon smaller than that in imperialist UK. Something us Brits find when we are short-changed for a pint of cider. And another thing, cider (cidre, sidar etc) is alcoholic, de facto. Apple juice isn't. Just saying.
#1) Waste hours a day watching videos like this on YT.
#20 has always been an issue with me. I was born and raised in the U.S.A., lived in several states, and spent time abroad in other countries. Referring to those in the United Stated as Americans has seemed to me as either an uneducated, small-minded term, or completely arrogant. It's true we are inherently American by residing on the North American continent, but so are all the other residents of all the other countries of both continents. So, we need to be all inclusive of all those other citizens when making broad statements about Americans, or be specific about the single country to which is being referred.
The date format in the U.S. military uses the same format as the rest of the world, strangely.
Many English speaking people, like the British and Canadians, either call Americans Americans, or at the very least knowing what we mean.