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122 points

Why make it a card then? If it’s meant to be stored as a document then it should be the size of an envelope, or a standard A4 sheet.

I keep mine attached to the envelope sized paper it came on. But it shouldn’t be a card shape, that encourages people to carry it. My grandpa always carried his.

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55 points

Don’t mention A4 paper, it scares the Americans. If any of them could read, they would be very afraid right now.

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12 points

Hey now, I can read…but, what’s this A4 paper you speak of?

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20 points

8/11.5 but more metric

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It’s a size of paper with an aspect ratio of 1:√2, and the short edge that is 21cm long. The long edge will then be 21√2 = 29.7cm. The aspect ratio has the interesting property that it can be halved and doubled while remaining constant.

This has been your ISO fact of the day.

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45 points

Using entirely reasonable standards that most of the rest of the world has adopted is too hard for us for some reason.

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95 points

A4

Is that a type of rifle? I’ll take 12!

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20 points

You’ll get either 8 ½ or 11 and you’ll like it.

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23 points

Today I’m going to use paper to feel superior to someone else.

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7 points

Amateur, we professionals don’t have to use anything for that

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15 points

To be fair, simply not having to live in the US already gives that rush.

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18 points

This week on “Things Non-Americans Think Americans Don’t Know About!”

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3 points

Right?

Like just because we export all our media to you (because it’s better) and make fun of our stereotypes in that media, doesn’t mean that most of us are like that. Believe it or not we actually have cool stuff that’s uniquely American.

And the reason you see Kraft singles is because we don’t want to share our BBQ with you.

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Idk. Maybe because there’s only a few pieces of info on it. Someone would say “why do you need to use a whole sheet of paper for just this?”

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