Post #939296
2026-04-05 09:01 UTC
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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online 2026-04-05 09:27
@cflynnbooks@mastodonapp.uk @mrundkvist@archaeo.social "Does the fact that the UK still uses MILES on all our roadsigns, and sells beer in PINTS (bigger than a USA pint btw 😉) make us all hicks?" Of course not. Hicks is a US thing. When the UK keeps using archaic, stupid measurements it's because they're all Tea-aboos who refuse to accept the loss of the British Empire and stubbornly cling on to anything that lets them pretend they're still a world power. We're not culturally ignorant, you know. We target our insults.
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@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems 2026-04-05 17:27
@cflynnbooks@mastodonapp.uk @mrundkvist@archaeo.social I think this is the most American cope post ever. It absolutely is fine to mock America for using archaic units based on a king’s foot and it should openly be encouraged. We ARE provincial backwards people, in the way we think, the way we vote, the way we relate to the “world” (which suspiciously is often not outside this continent), the way we travel (most Americans never leave the country and plenty never leave their home state), the way we talk down to everyone else, and the way we insist we are always right about everything “so shut up.” And also our insistence that our way is the correct way. #17 in the world standard of living and consistently declining world status. And now look at the price of gas. Clearly correct.
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@twinkle@sweet.succubi.services 2026-04-05 17:35
@cflynnbooks@mastodonapp.uk @mrundkvist@archaeo.social since when did the topic of IQ or intelligence come into play