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.
this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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Why would you tell that to anyone?
I feel like people on the bus need to know.
With gusto
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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: thatβs a paddlinβ.
> 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 62~12~"
About 27 Big Macs.
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.
Google said a Big Mac was 2.75β in height, 3.75β in diameter. I then had to convert that to civilised units.
No joke, I used our European websearch qwant and found a link which says 3.5.
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Otherwise known as 1 trump of breakfast burgers
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Fuck your freedom units. I'll stick to sane units of measurement thank you.
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
0.093 cricket strips.
Pitches, surely?
Oh shit.
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
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.
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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
Germans do go with meters when talking about their height but they'll give you two decimal places.
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.
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I guess its just because saying "one-seventy-nine" rolls better off the tongue than "one point seventy nine" or "one point eight"
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
Particularly for folks with long spines, height can change significantly throughout the day.
I use a wheelchair on occasion - when Iβm unwell and use my wheelchair I measure about 3cm taller than when Iβm well and have been walking!
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.
Japan does too, at least from all the manga etc I've read. Not in meters either, just cm.
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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.
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7.4 decainches
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?
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 π¦Ά, ", ', 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
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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.
Don't disturbe the enemy when it is making a mistake.
Man it's been 2 days since I saw this and it fucking gets me every time. π€£
Now every time I remember how tall I am, I also* remember this.
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