Guess What We Have in Common With Myanmar and Liberia
As of 2007 we are the only countries in the world that have not mandated the metric system.
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How about dictatorial governments where elected officials get unbelievably lucrative governemt contracts where they make literally billions from marketing a fake war?
That too…
Oh yeah? If it’s so great, why do they still order their beer in pints on the other side of the pond?
I’ll walk a hundred km for a PINT! OK, not really, but I would walk one.
Actually, the pints are set to go away…
Oh, and we both are really crappy about getting aid to flood-ravaged poor people.
Good one.
Let’s not forget making political prisoners out of democracy activists. That and the inability to resuce people after a huge hurricane.
Oh I almost forget, both dispatched paramilitaries to the disaster area that are accountable to no one. With Katrina it was Blackwater and in Myanmar it was the regime’s mercenary force.
I think counted by tens is too hard! We should go back to biblical means of measurement – like the cubit.
Oh and shouldn’t we be calling the country Burma in protest. Every other news agency I watch. heard or read based outside the US says “Burma” (the BBC, Al Jeezera, the CBC, Reuters, etc.)
Siam, Burma, French Indo-China, Bengalen …what’s the dif?
I guess every other news agency outside the US refuses to recognize the name that some military junta uses for the country. I do notice that every ex-pat I’ve heard on TV or radio in the US, like college professors from there, say Burma. My dentist is also Burmese and says Burma. I’ll have to ask him the next time I’m in for a cleaning.