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It blows our hivemind that the United States doesn’t use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang).
Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America’s little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via your banking app, but come on - look how absolutely great it is to be European:
The American mind cannot comprehend this diagram
[Diagram of paper sizes as listed below]
ISO 216 A series papers formats
AO
A1
A3
A5
A7
A6
Et.
A4
Instead, Americans prostrate themselves to bizarrely-named paper types of seemingly random size: Letter, Legal, Tabloid (Ledger) and all other types of sordid nonsense. We’re not even going to include a picture because this is a family-friendly finance blog.
First they (wrongly) complain about the metric version not being divisible while their stupid format even has a fucking prime number in it. Can’t make this shit up.
I think we’re on different levels. I’m solely here to make fun of both groups thinking they’re superior.
Apart from the simple fact that the metric system is superior in every way, it was actually meant tongue-in-cheek too. But reading it again it absolutely doesn’t sound like it.