The abbreviation for miles is 'mi', 'm' is meters so apparently the American here is smarter than you OP.
SMH
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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Given that it's a shitpost I think the seeming incongruity is deliberate.
Wow lemmings really cannot comprehend the concept of a shitpost. The neverending unironic us political posts in this community is annoying but this is just sad.
Weird place to pull out a high horse to dramatically fall off.
100 m = 100 meters = 0.1 kilometers. Miles is abbreviated mi, as in 100 mi. I'm disappointed in you, The Picard Maneuver. Your jokes, shitposts, and memes are usually so much better than this. Are you ok?
Thank you, lol. I didn't make this one, but in its defense, I read it as an anti-joke shitpost. I believe it's intentional.
Yes, hats off to you. This one is a gem.
Thanks. I knew it wouldn't land for a lot of people. Anti-jokes don't usually play well, but I thought it was amusing.
anti-what? Is that like a negation on an actual joke that turns it into a non-joke but you can still read off the joke from its remnants?
basically. to make an anti joke you take the template of a normal joke and swap the punchline to something that isnt a punchline anymore.
here is a anti-meme for example
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Dude's busy posting half the memes here daily, not surprising some things slip through the cracks
The Picard Maneuver
Around here I think we're supposed to refer to them as TPM.
Until today I had assumed it was derived from "total percentage of meters" but now I just don't know.
I'm confused and probably stupid, but...should the guy not be crawling 100 meters versus 1 km (1,000 meters)? What part of my brain has damage from being dropped as a child?
Yeah, it's just a shitpost with layers of irony and edits to the intended joke.
I'm.... Not really getting it
It's an anti-joke playing on expectations. Like, you expect the joke to be that the guy is crawling the wrong way, or to be making fun of Americans not using the metric system, but it's been edited so that neither of those fit.
Screw you and you intelligent cyber-bullying!
It's pure brainrot, don't even bother. Just clowns jerking off to their own content
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The previous edit to this joke was the American man dying of thirst went to the right because 1<100 and as a math illiterate, he didn't check the units.
The original joke was the American man dying of thirst went straight between the two signs because he couldn't read.
Less a shitpost and more a shit post
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I think the m is supposed to stand for miles. I guess the sign is in a desert between usa and canada
Thank you. I've only ever seen "mi." for miles.
'm' is definitely meters, 'mi' is for miles
You're a doctor for Christ's sake. Get ahold of yourself!
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He's going so fast, he took the optimal racing line, this American is truly a professional racist.
We joke, but the metric conversion act of 1975 means that most Americans are more familiar with metric than we care to admit. It’s on most everything. Mostly, it’s the professional class — engineers who don’t want to learn to visually estimate in liters/second rather than gallons/second — who have resisted switching over, rather than Joe and Jane American.
Well the US units are defined by their metric conversion these days, so technically you are just using metric with some weird factor slapped on.
So while the rest of the world uses meters with factors of 10, 1000, 1/100 etc., the US uses meters with factors like 3.280839895013123, 0.000621371192237, 39.37007874015748 etc.
Factors of 10 are overrated. Mebibtyes are objectively a better measure than megabytes.
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A meter is defined as 1/299,792,458 the distance light travels in one second, so everybody is using weird factors.
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Except that’s not what “using metric” means
I'm convinced that the majority of whinging about metric in the US is actually coming from old machine operators tucked away somewhere in the industrial sector who don't want to give up their old decimal inch Bridgeports and Shipleys, or have bosses who wouldn't buy them new machines anyway. Everything else stems from there, bubbling on up through the pipes as it does.
As an engineer, I'd rather use the metric system. Is it harder for me to visualize since I didn't grow up with it? Yes, but its so much easier to work with.
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Huh? In my electical engineering studies almost everything is in metric. Are you thinking of certain holdover generations?
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Excellent shitpost, I believe that's what it's called.
Took a minute to understand the 'm' means 'miles' not meters.
Thank you. I was looking at it thinking, "but 100m is only 10% of the other distance".
BTW for any curious non-muricans, miles is abbreviated "mi" so it doesn't get confused with meters. The only slight exception is when you are dealing with transportation, where none of the units are abbreviated properly:
- miles per hour = "mph" (should be mi/hr)
- miles per gallon = "mpg" (should be mi/gal)
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Which is wrong, miles should be mi.
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That’s 1/10th of a kilomile
I don't get it : 100 meters is closer than 1000... 👀
I can't find the original, but the old but classic image of this is something like this:
Hence the play on expectations in OP's meme.
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