Is referring to the bathroom as “the jacks” strictly an Irish thing, or is it used in the UK as well? Think it’s just Irish but IDK.
So when it’s midday in the States is that 12am or 12pm? What about midnight, is that 12am or pm? So very confusing!
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Midday (noon) is 12pm. Midnight is 12am.
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You guys should change into the metric system. Nothing makes sense, I even had to buy American cups for baking when I was at Walmart to make it right 
and don’t get me started on miles vs Swedish miles (or km for that matter)
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I thought we measured every thing by football fields 
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For formal things and all things authority in Sweden we also write or names that way. Daily speaking we pick one to use. My Pa for example is known only by his family/last name.
You mean American football, right?
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As opposed to Australian or Canadian football ?
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Or Gaelic football for that matter
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In Swedish, soccer-football and football is American football no matter what country playing.
In Dutch it’s voetbal and (American) football
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And Gaelic football is an own sport, just like Rugby is something different too, right?
I’m not really inti sports though if it’s not MLE (competitive eating) but I’ve been to a few American football games, my best friends teen was a kicker.
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It is. Sort of rugby played with a round ball.
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Up here (and with that I mean the Finnish Lapland) people used to have “reindeer’s pissery” as a term to define distance. A reindeer can’t pee while running so they need to be allowed stop every now and then. They can run approximately 7km/ 4,3mi between pee breaks.
I think this measurement could be adopted to world wide use 
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Wait, didn’t that have something to do with the ability to swim? 
so if its 4 hours past 20 why doesn’t it just say midnight??
We write it like that, because we put men on the moon, and then brought them back.
'cause 'merica!
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I agree about the US adopting the metric system. That’s what the standard should be. Must be a lot of lobby monies involved to keep us from switching.
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To me the date should be yyyy/mm/dd
END OF DISCUSSION!!
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It’s mostly just lack of political will. Americans have been involved with the metric system since the 19th century - in fact, the yard is officially defined as 0.9144 metres - but when they set up an American Metric Bureau in the 1970s they made adoption voluntary, so it wasn’t done. Some companies did it here or there; some local and state governments experimented with it. Then in the 1980s the federal government cancelled it, and no one has revisited it since.