Americans have a special talent for measuring things in anything but the metric system. From everyday household objects to completely ridiculous units of measurement, apparently, anything can become an official measuring tool if you believe in it enough. Who needs centimeters when there’s a perfectly good alternative lying around?
We’ve rounded up 20 hilarious memes that celebrate this uniquely American approach to measurements. These gems have been curated from the subreddit r/anythingbutmetric, where the metric system is clearly nobody’s first choice and common sense is occasionally optional.
