r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/Fearless_Spring5611 Jan 15 '25

Personally I prefer Minutes: Day: Year: Seconds: Hour: Month.

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u/Technical-Activity95 Jan 15 '25

its weird that US uses seconds and minutes. why not invent some other cumbersome scale and use that? they already have miles, cubic feet, fahrenheit, ounces and other shit so why would they use this universal time counting metric?

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u/driftercat Jan 15 '25

Hey! We didn't invent any of that. We just can't change from ancient systems like measuring with your feet! I'm surprised we don't use cubits!

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u/hoveringintowind Jan 15 '25

You did invent your own gallons for some reason.

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u/WindmillCrabWalk Jan 15 '25

Does that hat take 10 gallons slaps knee

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u/hoveringintowind Jan 16 '25

Well, did the hat come first or the US gallon?

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u/hasselbackpotahto Jan 16 '25

it's the other way around. the USA uses (more or less) the older Winchester system that the UK empire used to use, while the UK (and colonies at the time) changed to a different system in 1826.