Comment by beastlykings@sh.itjust.works on Good luck!

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.

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

A4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

export all our media to you (because it’s better)

Lmao. Get back to me when you’ve got something like Taskmaster, Would I Lie To You, or QI.

We can’t do everything for you guys. We’re holding down the imperial system almost single handedly. Help a brother out.

America has the Squid Games reality show and Mr Beast. They’re kind of like Taskmaster if the point of Taskmaster was dangling life changing money in front of poor people.

They’re nothing like Taskmaster then lmao.

You’re proving my point though? Those all look like C rate game shows that show up in the worst time slots here in the states.

If you said Doctor who, like 15 years ago, then I’d give you a solid maybe.

look like

Yeah that’s an American problem. Preferring a glossy looking garbage over something non-glamorous but substantial.

FYI I’m neither American nor European.

American here, you’re straight up wrong. We have no equivalent to their panel shows. Comparing them to game shows is like comparing open heart surgery to being stabbed.

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

8/11.5 but more metric

sips tea and extends pinky

Am I doing metric right?

Actually no, the Brits shit on us for it but by most approaches they’re actually even worse than we are

The bruvs be usin’ STONE out here and acting like they get to crack wise

8/11.5

Not sure if a joke or an actual paper size

Actually a size. More commonly referred to as “letter” sized. It’s 8x11.5 inches, which is pretty close to A4, but it’ll confuse printers if you mix the 2 up.

but it’ll confuse printers if you mix the 2 up.

So far all printers I’ve seen can switch between both. The real problem is your Writer/Word document, because after the slight reformatting it’s now all over the place.

It’s actually 8.5x11 not 8x11.5

More Square root, you mean!

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.

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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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