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[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago

I don't get why Americans are doing their best to avoid the metric system. It's always weird discriptions. Like dishwashers, or in this case, half a giraffe. Just use bananas if (cubic) meters are too complex.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

It's not like we don't have imperial units to use. It's just easier to visualize an object you're familiar with than 20ft/6m or whatever other unit. Giraffes is a strange choice though.

[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Friends of mine are expecting a child. They have an app to compare the current size of the baby. It has the weirdest choices:

Wedding cake (they are always the same size? Depends on the budget right? So if you're rich your child is bigger than when you're poor, when it's the wedding cake size?)
flat box of chocolates (always the same size? Flat child?)
small popcorn bucket
small pinguin (there are so many differently sized small pinguïns)
cotton candy (last one I had was huge, I feel sorry for the woman with a child that size in their womb)
maki
jackfruit
rhubarb (so it's a stick shaped child?)
kitten (a grows the most as a kitten. They are kitten for the first year. It's like saying the size of your baby is the size of a baby.)

I have no clue what these sizes are exactly. I do know what 10cm or 20cm is.