And a perfect lawn is easy. Start with some good grass and roll it every day for 500 years.
We should establish a distance measure called a “league”, which would be 5Km, or about 3.1 miles, that might give us a handy way to transition.
Furlongs per fortnight.
yeah, let us not get started on that
The hell it isn’t!
'Fess up, furriners. Our political system is nucking futz, isn’t it? It’s ok, some of us won’t take offense.
Wait. Maytag is the name of a cheese? Or the name of a vacuum cleaner?
Meh, I don’t mind your political system all that much. I wish it didn’t take so damned long to elect a president: although it is somewhat entertaining at times.
Maytag is a washing machine, silly! 
We do it for the entertainment because things start to suck right after the election.
Some non-Americans think we’re shallow because we constantly go around asking “How are you?” while clearly giving absolutely not one tiny shit about the response.
It’s beyond unfair to compare mass-market from one place to “the best stuff from other places.” For your post to make any sense, you’d have to be saying that Mars/M&M/Hershey’s are “the best stuff” from America … and I hope to all hell you ain’t sayin’ that.
All this talk of cheese and chocolate. Perhaps I never not been exposed to a quality product, but I cannot be terribly excited by either.
It seems there is a lot of that going on. “Your Bud Lite sucks compared to our best beer”. “Your yellow cheddar sucks compared to our farmland hand made cheese”. Maybe folks from outside the US don’t realize we have things other than the mainstream, mass-market products. Do bland, generic products not exist outside the US? Or is everything small-batch, hand-crafted and exquisite once you escape the bounds of bland ole USA?
I just had a Russell Stover dark chocolate orange cream. It’s hard to imagine anything better than that, but perhaps it can be done.
Same family, different business.
I thought the USA was part of this world. 
Bland, generic products exist. They’re generally just not as bland and as generic. Tesco’s (the major UK supermarket chain) own-brand cheddar is better than, say, Kraft cheddar. Carlsberg (it’s Danish) is the closest thing the UK has to a Budweiser equivalent (that is, a mass-market watery pilsner) and it’s 100 times better than Bud Light. You can say the same thing about almost every mass-market watery pilsner or lager in Europe. Stella is better. Amstel is better. Kronenbourg is immeasurably better.
It’s not because Anheuser-Busch doesn’t know how to brew beer. Their World Select was fantastic stuff (and it’s now been discontinued, which is annoying.)
We are understandably trying to keep that quiet.
After the first half dozen, who gives a damn?
Aside from that, we seem to be bickering about which Junior High School football team is best.
You’re not supposed to leave a baguette on the counter for days. You don’t buy it until you want to eat it, and you don’t eat it unless you just bought it. If it’s old and stale it gets recycled into breadcrumbs or pain perdu or croutons or panade or any one of the other hundred uses for stale bread. If you want to eat bread today you go to the bakery and buy bread today.
And I love, love, love the idea from that anti-metric link from above that you can divide a foot by half, thirds, fourths, or sixths, but if you wanted to divide a meter by thirds it would be impossible. Nope, no such thing as 1/3 of a meter, because you can’t express metric in fractions I guess, so you’d have to say 0.333333333333… meters and you’d never get to stop writing down threes.
Eh, three hundred thirty three millimeters is close enough.
Unfortunately, no. We’ll be chip and sign for the foreseeable future. From what I read somewhere recently the reason is that “we didn’t think the consumer could learn two new things at the same time.”