• @snf
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      Reminds me of this dialogue from Ghost World

      Enid : You know, we need to find a place where you can go to meet women who share your interests.
      Seymour : Well maybe I don’t want to meet someone who shares my interests. I hate my interests.

      • @funnystuff97
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        169 months ago

        “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”

        -Groucho Marx

  • Margot Robbie
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    289 months ago

    Wait a minute, I know her, that’s the woman who’s responsible for causing all the problem in my life!

    I’ll bet she’s posting something really dumb on the Internet right now.

  • JonC
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    279 months ago

    It bothers me that the height chart suggests there are 10 inches in a foot

    • @lancecobra
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      129 months ago

      What about the fact that 4 feet is ankle height yet his entire torso is only 1 foot tall?

    • @[email protected]
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      89 months ago

      I just had to look it up, you guys really don’t have it easy with your measurements. Miles, Yard, foot, inch and nothing matches up.

      • Liz
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        49 months ago

        And yet every time we suggest switching to metric the very vocal minority claims it’s all actually very easy and switching wouldn’t be worth the hassle anyway. We’d actually save money if we switched to metric, by reducing the number of errors caused by bad measurements, but whatever, kermudgeons gonna kermudgeon.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        So it’s all super weird, but not as hard as it sounds. How often do you need to convert between feet and miles anyways? We don’t really use yards for anything, converting between inches and feet is the length conversion that’s obnoxious

        It’s very human though, they apparently picked a giant when they standardized it… It still roughly works

        An inch is the last joint on your thumb, a foot is your foot length, a yard is a stride (one step with each foot), a mile is 1k strides.

        It takes 20 minutes to walk a mile at a normal pace, a healthy person can consistently travel about 20 miles in a day. 10k steps is 5 miles, the somewhat arbitrary goal we picked for pedometers.

        It’s weird, but it feels very natural when talking about the physical world around you. It’s a great measure of distance, but it’s not a good measure of length

    • @bisby
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      29 months ago

      I was at a track meet once and the lady running high jump was doing a horrible job. She was finally figuring out what she was doing and said : OK, we got this. Next height will be 5’12"

      • Liz
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        29 months ago

        This lady is one of the many reasons we need metric.

    • @trashgirlfriend
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      89 months ago

      By being white you are actually contractually bound to go jogging by blood

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        As a white person, I feel the need to arbitrate these contractual obligations and negotiate more favorable terms.

  • @budgard
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    99 months ago

    Wait… I don’t enjoy my interests.

  • @Fuckfuckmyfuckingass
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    99 months ago

    This makes me think of a friend’s child years ago, who was going around asking all the adults, “how tall are you for your height?”

    Which was met with confusion, and the child asking more and more emphatically. I think what the kid was trying to get at was, “are you tall for your age?”.

  • StrikerM
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    59 months ago

    Wow. You’ve got me.