• @PugJesusOP
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      142 hours ago

      lmao that’s much more perfect than the version I posted

    • @Etterra
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      Women: I only date TALL men!

      Tall men:

      • @[email protected]
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        Reminds me of a Billy Crystal joke.

        105 year old man and his 99 year old wife go to the judge to ask for a divorce.

        “Are you sure that you want a divorce at your ages?”

        “Yes, your honor, we haven’t been happy for a while and it’s time to end things.”

        “Why did you stay together for so long?”

        “We were waiting for the children to die.”

    • @OCATMBBL
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      I assumed a vampire anime.

    • BougieBirdie
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      Weirdly, I thought years. Like these were elves or something.

      I’ve been playing too much D&D, I need to spend some time in the real world.

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    917 hours ago

    dang they’re pretty old

  • @solrize
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    Height in centimeters? I don’t entirely get this.

    • @Rolando
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      Height in centimeters?

      Yeah, it’s in centimeters. 158 cm is 0.000853132 and 188 is 0.00101512 in nautical miles, if that helps any.

    • @captainlezbian
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      Practice using metric. Not kidding, as an American it’s sometimes frustrating but most things are available in metric and there is a quite large convenience factor

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        I can tolerate distances in metric, but I draw the line at personal measurements!

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      It’s what most of the world uses. Tea-ville and Yeehawland are the only two that typically use imperial still.

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        Not just tea-ville, but former tea-ville colonies also measure human height in feet and inched. And former tea-ville colonies make up a large portion of the human populace.

      • manucode
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        In Germany, we usually express height in meters and centimeters, like 1 meter 58 or 1 meter 88.

        • @nl4real
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          That makes a lot more sense to a 'Murican like me coming from imperial.

        • @[email protected]
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          Only in informal communication. Medical software and official documents (like you ID card) usually use cm.

      • Skua
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        We don’t even use the same type of imperial either

        If France could just lie for a few years and say that they’re adopting the British system, it might persuade us to finally metricise properly out of spite and I’d be extremely grateful to them

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        Most of London The UK uses Miles Per Hour for speed limits. That’s just the biggest example off the top of my head. Your assertion is inaccurate.

        Edit: A weird thing to downvote but ok. It’s more than just London, it’s the whole UK.

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          Didn’t downvote you but I’m guessing that’s covered by “Tea-ville” which could be why.

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            That was not me.

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              What was not you?

              One person said the UK is using imperial measurements and you responded that this is wrong and showed in an example at the same time, why the original statement would be true

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      It’s nothing. Without a unit those are just numbers. A can of coke isn’t 12, it’s 12floz.

      Or so my metric companions don’t shit themselves in their panic-induced rage at the sight of imperial units, a coke can isn’t 355, it’s 355mL.

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          I’ll accept the lowercase L (in my East Coast based US education we were taught liters should always be capital L, but that seems to either be flat-out incorrect or have fallen out of fashion), but googling images of the cans shows me no space between the number and the unit.

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            I hadn’t even noticed that you didn’t put a space between the number and the unit. Looking it up online, the Bureau international des poids et mesures states that a space is to be used in front of all units, except for °, ’ and ". Dropping the space is very common though.

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      Yeah I had to read it twice to figure it wasn’t years. And I use metric, so I know exactly how tall these two are but for some reason it didn’t click on the first read

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        I think the anime picture adds to it. I thought it was about the “my witch girlfriend is actually 500 just in a childs body so its not pedophilia”

      • @[email protected]
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        I guess one upside of living in a country that uses both metric and imperial frequently is that these things tend to click pretty quickly. The lack of consistency is annoying, though.