• Fleur_
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    Finally a height meme where I can understand the heights given

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    I immediately thought they were talking about weight.

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      Weirdly, I thought years. Like these were elves or something.

      I’ve been playing too much D&D, I need to spend some time in the real world.

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        Reminds me of a Billy Crystal joke.

        105 year old man and his 99 year old wife go to the judge to ask for a divorce.

        “Are you sure that you want a divorce at your ages?”

        “Yes, your honor, we haven’t been happy for a while and it’s time to end things.”

        “Why did you stay together for so long?”

        “We were waiting for the children to die.”

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

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          That’s what I said.

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              No, but it doesn’t matter. I just provided the exact measurements because I was copy pasting anyways.

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                When the original value is only precise to plus or minus half an inch, it makes no sense whatsoever to do a conversion that’s a hundred times more precise.

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                  It’s more precise and took no extra effort. 🤷

                  Why is it bothering you so much?

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              If you actually contributed by providing the information to begin with I would agree.

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                Are you just being stubborn, or do you really still not understand why adding too many decimal places / significant figures is wrong?

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                  I just copy pasted. Deal with it.

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

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

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        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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        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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            I’m in yeehawland and I loved the nicknames

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              What was not you?

              One person said the UK is using imperial measurements and you responded that this is wrong and showed in an example at the same time, why the original statement would be true

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

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      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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        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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        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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      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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          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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            I hadn’t even noticed that you didn’t put a space between the number and the unit. Looking it up online, the Bureau international des poids et mesures states that a space is to be used in front of all units, except for °, ’ and ". Dropping the space is very common though.

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              It’s cool to learn the official guidelines; thanks for doing the legwork here!

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

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            Whatever dork. Me and my friends are gonna be out playing four square if you got anymore sick burns.

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      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