Iirc a ship was carrying the metric standards to the US in like 1790 and sank and they just said fuck it
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its this EXACT same thing but with soccer and football, granted there is actual history there, im going to ignore it because it's funnier that way.
europe created the term soccer, and then got rid of it, and then took up football, so the US started using soccer, because it had already used football, for well, football. Shocker i know. And so now we still use soccer, but they use football.
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Which other colonies use imperial?
Myanmar and Liberia.
Liberia exists because of Americans who didn't love the idea of freed former slaves in northern states having the right to vote (or rights in general). So they shipped these former slaves back to Africa so they could have their own country. Liberia is the second oldest black republic (Haiti came first). They just kinda kept using US customary units once they got there.
No idea why Myanmar uses US units.
I mean, Myanmar was a british colony… basically they fucked up everything, everywhere.
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In the meantime to "take advantage of Brexit" it will be possible to sell wine by the pint... A push to go back to the imperial system was axed though. Maybe brexiters should move to the US if they like the imperial system so much.
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use English as an official language for EU Brexit
USA should have switched to metric just because they are pals with France.