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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.
But what if I'm 17.5cm
Just use Millimeter, like a professional.
But what if 175.5mm?
Well... no one wants to use the word micro in relation to their penis.
I'm 75,500 micro meters baby
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Why would you tell that to anyone?
I feel like people on the bus need to know.
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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.
Particularly one who doesn't understand significant figures. Are you certain that you're precisely 74.000 inches, without even a thousandth of an inch of rounding? If not, you don't get to use 5 sigfigs when converting.
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Making me divide by 12: that’s a paddlin’.
> console.log(`${Math.trunc(74/12)}' ${74 % 12}"`)
6' 2"
I never could understand why they made us learn multiplication tables up to twelve. This is why, isn't it?
We only went up to ten in germany, so yea probably.
Also my god those things are pointless.
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Fuck your freedom units. I'll stick to sane units of measurement thank you.
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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.
Your comment made me realize how we take for granted that everyone at least measures time the same way. Imagine the clusterfuck if there was metric time & imperial time.
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That's 0.00934 furlongs!
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.
Unless you happen to be 2 meters tall, yes, you would give your height in cm. You might round it, but you'd never say you're 1.8m tall.
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I just say "one sixty five", and so do most people in the Netherlands (most use different numbers though)
Same in Sweden.
Germany too
Bayern too
Bremerhaven does this as well
In France it's generally in meters with two decimals, so basically the same as giving it in cm
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.
176cm would be given as "eins-sechsundsiebzig" in German, literally translating to one six and seventy (yeah it's backwards), which works exactly like currency.
Yes where I live, we use cm usually. Also height is almost always measured without shoes
Germans do go with meters when talking about their height but they'll give you two decimal places.
Not European, but from a country that also uses the metric system. We give out our height in meters, as you said. Saying it in cm would be okey for medical reasons I suppose. Also there isn't much difference in what unit you use, you just have to multiply/divide by 100, which is easily done in your head
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.
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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
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