Fun penis fact: if you tell people you’re 6.5 inches, it sounds like you’re trying too hard to get that last bit of length. If you instead say 17cm, that’s just how long you are.
You’re welcome, fellow penis owners.
Why would you tell that to anyone?
I feel like people on the bus need to know.
With gusto
I’m roughly 5 attoparsec long
You can see this was made by an American.
Because why would the European use decimals for their own height? Just so it rounds to the nearest inch? Unlikely.
Making me divide by 12: that’s a paddlin’.
> console.log(`${Math.trunc(74/12)}' ${74 % 12}"`) 6' 2"Now if only we used a duodecimal number system. Then I could divide by 2, 3, 4, and 6 while staying within the integers for as long as possible. And someone who is 6’ 2" would just be 6212"
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Wait I’ve checked this, a Big Mac is 3,5 inches in height. That’s 94,5 inches not 74.
Seriously, I’m an European and don’t know what I am talking about. Inches, Feet, Legs, Elbows… Lol only in america.
Historians will get the Elbow joke.
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No joke, I used our European websearch qwant and found a link which says 3.5.
Cubits 😁
Otherwise known as 1 trump of breakfast burgers
Use either School buses, or Football fields pls.
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3 LG fridges. Or one Atlant fridge.
Fuck your freedom units. I’ll stick to sane units of measurement thank you.
So you use SI units?
Most of them, I hadn’t heard of the term until your reply., never used Kelvin, mole or candela before.
How I feel about meters per second that gets changed to miles per hour and I just want kilometers per hour
M/s to km/h is nowhere near as bad as any of the imperial conversions though. (M*60*60)/1000… Or, M*3.6 if you want to simplify it.
How dare you make me do math
Mathless morons should be exiled to the middle of the saharan desert with a 5l bottle of water and a metric measure map to the nearest settlement
0.093 cricket strips.
Oh shit.
Pitches, surely?
Pitches don’t have any standard size, so just the strip.
What? Yeah, they do, it’s 22 yards long and 10 feet wide. The fields don’t have a standard size.
Weird, I thought the pitch was the whole thing, cos people would just call them cricket pitches. No wonder I am exiled from Yorkshire.
I’ve gotten so sick of working with people in multiple timezones that I’ve just started using UTC for everything.
Fuck you for living in a different sliver of the planet. You aren’t gonna make me do all the math. I’m bringing you down with me.
Let’s see them tremble when daylight savings time ends.
I want to use TAI time zone. It’s 37 seconds ahead of UTC and doesn’t have leap seconds.
Haha I work with people in the Midwest and west coast and do this too. But I still have to whip out the UTC time converter, so it’s 90% of the work just to be a bit of a pest.
In windows 11 (and possibly windows 10) you can add additional timezones to your clock. Your primary time shows at all times, and the other time zones show when you hover over it.
I had no idea! Thanks! Now I can be a pest with no extra effort
No worries!
If you really want to be a dick, get in the habit of sending out everything in UTC (make sure you are labeling as UTC to avoid confusion), and then when you work exclusively with people in your own timezone (let’s say EDT), you say something like “let’s sync up at 15:30UTC-4.”
idk if all my calendars around me have been implementing it wrong, but if not, UTC is also affected by daylight savings, making it the same time zone as GMT
Do Europeans really give their height in cm? You’d think they short hand it like to like 1.7m or whatever since height is one of those things that doesn’t really need to be exact and will change by a cm or so based on the kind of shoes you are wearing, or wearing shoes at all.
In my native language we say the equivalent of ‘one and eighty-five’ to refer to 185 cm of height, so basically we give it in meters.
Not europe but yes, we do it in cm. Never heard people rounding up or down to the tenth though, so 164cm is 164cm, not 160cm.
In France it’s generally in meters with two decimals, so basically the same as giving it in cm
Do North Americans really give their weight in lb? You’d think they’d short hand it like to like 15 stone or whatever since weight is one of those things that doesn’t really need to be exact and will change by a lb or so based on the time of day and what you’ve eaten.
No, we give our weight in pounds instead of ounces because weight is one of those things that doesn’t really need to be exact and will change by a couple dozen ounces or so based on the time of day and what you’ve eaten.
No, see, here ounces compare to millimetres. If height and weight fluctuate over centimetres and pounds, and they do, lesser units should be disregarded, right?
Stone isn’t a measurement in America, it’s inorganic material. The next-heighest commonly known weight is a ton, or 2000 lbs. Not very helpful.
A better example would be if europeans really gave their weight in grams. I don’t think they do, they use kilo’s cause they don’t really need the precision of a gram for something like that.
because grams are small, but 174cm makes more sense than 1.7m
“Small” is extremely relative, I’d say centimeters are small too.
Germans do go with meters when talking about their height but they’ll give you two decimal places.
I guess its just because saying “one-seventy-nine” rolls better off the tongue than “one point seventy nine” or “one point eight”
Particularly for folks with long spines, height can change significantly throughout the day.
I use a wheelchair on occasion - when I’m unwell and use my wheelchair I measure about 3cm taller than when I’m well and have been walking!
You always do it in cm wherever I’ve been. It’s either directly in cm, as in 172 cm or phrased in meters, as in 1.72 m. You cab say you’re around 170 cm tall or around 1.7 m tall, but the ‘default precision level’ is 1 cm
Japan does too, at least from all the manga etc I’ve read. Not in meters either, just cm.
When using feet and inches, its fine to use precision of 1 inch as it’s much smaller unit than 0.1 m.
If one says that they are 5’11" (180.34 cm), they can be 5’10.5" (179.07 cm) to 5’11.5" (181.61 cm) tall. That’s 1.4% variance.
If using meters with one decimal place, and say they are 1.8 m (5’10.9"), they can be 175 cm (5’8.9") to 185 cm (6’0.8") tall. That’s 5.6% variance.
Thus it’s not really viable to use only one decimal place when using metres as unit, so in many languages it’s easier to just say the length in centimeters compared to use two deeimal places.
In German, you’d probably say 1 Metre 85 (Ein Meter Fünfundachtzig), or 1 85 (Eins Fünfundachtzig) to be more brief. I’m relatively certain that it very much differs from language to language, and probably regionally within languages.
I just wish people would step up to a bigger scale when it’s needed or to a smaller scale for the same reason. I hate seeing big massive boats measured in thousands upon thousands of centimeters instead of just using meters or feet, and it’s annoying when people say their height in hundreds of millimeters.
Or when knife-blade thickness gets measured in hundredths of decimal inches or weird fractional measurements instead of just using millimeters since it’s a smaller unit.
Yeah, I never heard anyone tell their height in centimetres. It’s always like “I’m 1 metre 71” or so.
IDK about english-speaking places, but in Hebrew we’d say “meter 70”. I never thought about whether this is strictly grammatical in Hebrew, but by the descriptive approach I guess it must be because it’s commonly used.
Edit: but it doesn’t really work when you want to write it as a number so you’d have to write either 1.70m or 170 cm (if you prefer 1m 70cm that’s fine but it’s two numbers)
I also don’t really know about English-speaking places, in writing we also go for 1,70 m over here
In my language 100 is just tree letters so most of the people just say 170 insteand of meter 70 because its shorter
I hear americans measure tire thread depth in 32ths of an inch?? I mean it’s nice that you’re using powers of two but huh?
7.4 decainches
All these comments, and I’m wondering who would ask someone about their height like this…it’s pretty easy to estimate someone’s height just by observation.
Eh, I’ve seen it as a smalltalk topic, to just want to know what the height is precisely, especially when someone is particularly tall.
I don’t get why Americans and some other countries don’t use metric system. Guys! x10, x100, x1000 or mm, m, cm, km is way easier than 🦶, ", ', mile, yard or whatever weapon you use to hurt yourself lol. I know scientists get that, but its easy for them to convert anyway. Imagine that 120 cent is 1$ haha
I’m familiar with both, but only use inch for screen size and for some specific pipes that are made in ". And yeah, the guy from the picture is 188 cm tall or 1,88 m. Don’t think anyone use 10th of the mm for that and even if they did they would probably say 1879,6 mm
Imagine that 120 cent is 1$ haha
It’s not that crazy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_pound_sterling#Pre-decimal_coinage
- £1 = 20 shillings (20s).
- 1 shilling = 12 pence (12d).
I’m big on metric but there’s nothing weird or wrong about non-decimal subdivisions. People have intuition about whichever system they’re used to. The true sin of so-called imperial units is that they’re ambiguous: a mile can be a nautical mile or a survey mile or any of these other miles. Volume is totally broken: US and UK have incompatible definitions for fl oz, ‘cup’ has many different definitions and is easily confused for “however much liquid fits in your cup” so is basically meaningless, and ‘gallon’ has three values that are wildly different from each other. If you follow a recipe from the other side of the pond, you better make sure you’re using the right foreign measuring cup.
A base 12 system is better then base10 objectively, because divisors are what make numbers useful and avoid decimals and fractions.
6’2"
Dividing by 12 isn’t that difficult
Man it’s been 2 days since I saw this and it fucking gets me every time. 🤣
Now every time I remember how tall I am, I also* remember this.
