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[-] rhacer@lemmy.world 34 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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.

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

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.

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

Trait alexithymia for the win

[-] grozzle@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] lud@lemm.ee 15 points 17 hours ago

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

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago
[-] grozzle@lemm.ee 11 points 11 hours ago

nobody is measuring people to a tenth of a millimeter.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago

4channers who blame their lack of muff action on their diminutive height are.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] grozzle@lemm.ee 6 points 10 hours ago

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.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

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

Why is it bothering you so much?

[-] grozzle@lemm.ee 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It's not more precise. A man says he's 6'2".

Sure. If he's anywhere between 6'1½" and 6'2½", that's true.

You say he's 198.12cm tall. The range of this being true is now thinner than a needle. It has gone far beyond what anyone actually measures. In over 99% of cases, it's not true, and if it is, it won't be for long, because the human body isn't nearly that consistent from breath to breath.

The conversion with spurious false precision has made the number go from true to not true.

The man is six foot two, yes, true. The man is 198.12cm - no he isn't.

[-] di_Bonaventura@futurology.today 4 points 8 hours ago

This is exactly right. 👏🏼

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

It really doesn't though.

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 7 points 16 hours ago

that's too many significant figures

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago
[-] rhacer@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

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

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