13 points

Height in centimeters? I don’t entirely get this.

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It’s what most of the world uses. Tea-ville and Yeehawland are the only two that typically use imperial still.

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Most of London The UK uses Miles Per Hour for speed limits. That’s just the biggest example off the top of my head. Your assertion is inaccurate.

Edit: A weird thing to downvote but ok. It’s more than just London, it’s the whole UK.

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Didn’t downvote you but I’m guessing that’s covered by “Tea-ville” which could be why.

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10 points

Not just tea-ville, but former tea-ville colonies also measure human height in feet and inched. And former tea-ville colonies make up a large portion of the human populace.

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I live in New Zealand, we don’t use inches. In fact, you’re required to use metric if you’re selling a product, as that’s our official measurement system.

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11 points

In Germany, we usually express height in meters and centimeters, like 1 meter 58 or 1 meter 88.

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5 points

Only in informal communication. Medical software and official documents (like you ID card) usually use cm.

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1 point

That’s also quiet common, especially in engineering, which doesn’t use CM.

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2 points

Don’t you guys use decimeters?

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2 points

That makes a lot more sense to a 'Murican like me coming from imperial.

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50 points

We don’t even use the same type of imperial either

If France could just lie for a few years and say that they’re adopting the British system, it might persuade us to finally metricise properly out of spite and I’d be extremely grateful to them

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7 points

UK we use both

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6 points

But no matter where you are you’d better add units!

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3 points

Definitely, there’s no excuse for that.

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17 points

It’s nothing. Without a unit those are just numbers. A can of coke isn’t 12, it’s 12floz.

Or so my metric companions don’t shit themselves in their panic-induced rage at the sight of imperial units, a coke can isn’t 355, it’s 355mL.

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wHaT are yOuR uNiTs?? iS iT 3 PiEs, 3 FrOgS??

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You don’t happen to teach middle school science do you?

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1 point

Nah, I think you just think that because you’re behaving like you’re in a middle school classroom.

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14 points

It’s actually 355 ml.

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I’ll accept the lowercase L (in my East Coast based US education we were taught liters should always be capital L, but that seems to either be flat-out incorrect or have fallen out of fashion), but googling images of the cans shows me no space between the number and the unit.

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21 points

Yeah I had to read it twice to figure it wasn’t years. And I use metric, so I know exactly how tall these two are but for some reason it didn’t click on the first read

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13 points

I think the anime picture adds to it. I thought it was about the “my witch girlfriend is actually 500 just in a childs body so its not pedophilia”

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12 points

It doesn’t help that they didn’t state their units.

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3 points

Seventh Brigade.

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4 points

I guess one upside of living in a country that uses both metric and imperial frequently is that these things tend to click pretty quickly. The lack of consistency is annoying, though.

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16 points

It would be easier if it was 1.88 and 1.56 :)

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8 points

Practice using metric. Not kidding, as an American it’s sometimes frustrating but most things are available in metric and there is a quite large convenience factor

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5 points

I can tolerate distances in metric, but I draw the line at personal measurements!

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3 points

5 cm is perfectly adequate according to my wife

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4 points

not me. my banana seems way bigger in metric than imperial

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2 points

Yes

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11 points

No, in feet, they’re actually giants.

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30 points

Height in centimeters?

Yeah, it’s in centimeters. 158 cm is 0.000853132 and 188 is 0.00101512 in nautical miles, if that helps any.

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Alternatively, as a smaller scale, 158 cm and 188 cm are only 0.01727909011373578 and 0.020559930008748905 football fields, respectively. Hope this helps.

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5 points

Sometimes, that 0.00328084th of a football field makes all the difference in the world…

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7 points

millimeters, they are Irish

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7 points

How is that a meme?

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32 points

How isn’t this a meme?

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11 points

Meme a how isn’t this.

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This meme isn’t a how

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6 points

I think it’s based on an actual photo.

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139 points

dang they’re pretty old

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7 points

And still getting taller. That’s crazy

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11 points

A difference of ~11" 4/5ths, or about 6’ 2" vs 5’ 2". 📐

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6’6" (247.5 Oreo Cookies for those of you who use that measurement). My wife is 5’1" tall.

When I was growing up my mom would always say “the tall girls are going to love you!” Every tall girl I ever asked out shot me down in flames.

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19 points

For anyone else using reasonable units that’s 198,12 cm and 154,94 cm respectively.

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10 points

that’s too many significant figures

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Nah.

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7 points

I’m impressed you were able to convert the Oreos! 😉

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29 points

for everyone who actually uses metric, that’s 198 cm, and 155 cm respectively :)

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-3 points

That’s what I said.

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I am 5’5" I have been flirted with by a surprisingly high number of near or above six foot women. The weird part is that most of them have known damned well I have the emotional capacity of a irate toaster in a research facility. Also I only get that they were flirting years later.

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3 points

How did you end up with that lack of emotional capacity?

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7 points

Autism and being abused as a child will fuck you up. Mind you I have more while by myself and with friends its just all of these instances were at work and well I am nothing but business, and part of business is telling HR that I put in time off as a courteous and I wasnt fucken asking.

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5 points

so many researchers toasting their bagels and yet never using your dedicated bagel button will wear you down.

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