It would be so much better if the rest of the western world could agree on speaking norwegian or another proper germanic language instead of the english variant of germanic. (that should get some interesting replies

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I blame our public school system (which still rarely teaches the metric system) and my stellar IQ of 76.
But 'mericans did bomb the snot out of most of the world (at some point from 1776 to present), so I guess that makes it okay.
Flame-suit on
(And for non-English speakers, this is all a joke)