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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Height in centimeters? I don't entirely get this.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only in informal communication. Medical software and official documents (like you ID card) usually use cm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

True, I didn't think about that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Feel free to say it any way you like, it makes no difference:

  • 1.58 meters
  • 158 centimeters
  • 1 meter 58 centimeters

It's all the exact same thing, nobody will bat an eye.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

except it would be 1,58 meters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't you guys use decimeters?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's also quiet common, especially in engineering, which doesn't use CM.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I live in New Zealand, we don't use inches. In fact, you're required to use metric if you're selling a product, as that's our official measurement system.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But no matter where you are you'd better add units!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Definitely, there's no excuse for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

~~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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I'm in yeehawland and I loved the nicknames

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Alternatively, as a smaller scale, 158 cm and 188 cm are only 0.01727909011373578 and 0.020559930008748905 football fields, respectively. Hope this helps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Sometimes, that 0.00328084th of a football field makes all the difference in the world...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

It would be easier if it was 1.88 and 1.56 :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

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] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It doesn't help that they didn't state their units.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Seventh Brigade.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'll accept the lowercase L (in my East Coast based US education we were taught liters should also 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It's cool to learn the official guidelines; thanks for doing the legwork here!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

No, in feet, they're actually giants.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

not me. my banana seems way bigger in metric than imperial

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

5 cm is perfectly adequate according to my wife

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

millimeters, they are Irish