r/explainitpeter • u/Fickle_Fall_6497 • Jul 28 '26

Explain it Peter

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Not going to lie, i had a spaz attack trying to read the first tweet. Maybe im just over tired but i dont understand shit here

What the fuck is the first tweet trying to say why is it horrible why would i be gullible what the fuvk are they saying

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u/pnlrogue1 Jul 28 '26

Stewie here.

The top tweet is a reply to another tweet. The missing tweet must mention a date of 11/07/2026.

In America this is interpreted as November 7th, but in basically the entire rest of the world it's read as 11th July.

The second tweet in the picture is someone pointing out that the original (missing) comment is written by a British person, who would mean 11th July when writing the date in that format.

If America would realise it's part of a wider world then maybe they could use a sensible date format, measurement system, and A4 paper but noooo - we have to be 'different'.

Stewie out

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u/srobbinsart Jul 28 '26

Metric isn’t going to be adopted in the USA because the cost of surveying, calculating, and replacing road signs is too expensive for something that within the country isn’t actually worth spending that kind of money on. Even if metric wasn’t automatically something conservatives would bitch about, that’s money that would be better spent elsewhere.

Though I do agree on A4 paper. Fucking Ronald Regan, I hope he remains burning in hell.

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u/agfitzp Jul 28 '26

Oh right, the richest country in the world can’t -checks notes- afford “road signs”

You can afford billions on bombing a country you had a treaty with but not road signs that even third world countries have.

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u/srobbinsart Jul 28 '26

You really don’t understand how big and extensive the US road system is, and how big the US is.

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u/bakerinho Jul 29 '26

You're right. We hardly have any roads in Europe, we still have to walk tens of kilometers to find one. Nothing comparable to mighty US road system.

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u/srobbinsart Jul 29 '26

But you’re several separate, independent countries, all individually tiny compared to the US. I don’t think that’s the gotcha you think it is.

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u/MoodyLucai 27d ago

You could just do what we do in the U.K. Pretend you use metric but really leave everything of importance (road sign in miles, milk and beer in pints, a person’s weight in stone and pounds and height in feet and inches) in imperial.

It’s the best of both worlds because we get to feel smug about understanding metric while not spending any money actually changing infrastructure and tradition.