2 points

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.

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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.

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You always do it in cm wherever I’ve been. It’s either directly in cm, as in 172 cm or phrased in meters, as in 1.72 m. You cab say you’re around 170 cm tall or around 1.7 m tall, but the ‘default precision level’ is 1 cm

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3 points

10cm is 4inches, you’re not gonna round that much

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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.

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7 points

Dick length is the only thing you can round up to the tens.

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2 points

Japan does too, at least from all the manga etc I’ve read. Not in meters either, just cm.

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8 points

In France it’s generally in meters with two decimals, so basically the same as giving it in cm

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3 points

Particularly for folks with long spines, height can change significantly throughout the day.

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9 points

Do Europeans really give their height in cm?

Yes.

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1 point

continental europeans who know their height in feet must number in the hundreds! (my dad and i happen to be two because of Karl May reasons, but i doubt anyone else bothers…)

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14 points

Making me divide by 12: that’s a paddlin’.

> console.log(`${Math.trunc(74/12)}' ${74 % 12}"`)
6' 2"
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Now if only we used a duodecimal number system. Then I could divide by 2, 3, 4, and 6 while staying within the integers for as long as possible. And someone who is 6’ 2" would just be 6212"

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5 points

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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14 points

How did the first guy manage to measure his height to within 100 microns?

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2 points

He’s European

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3 points

He used an inch tape measure and converted the height to cm I guess.

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6 points

Lasers and shit

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3 points

woah

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2 points

If you can stand very still I could do it here at work.

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9 points

Really accurate tape measure.

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16 points

About 27 Big Macs.

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Wait I’ve checked this, a Big Mac is 3,5 inches in height. That’s 94,5 inches not 74.

Seriously, I’m an European and don’t know what I am talking about. Inches, Feet, Legs, Elbows… Lol only in america.

Historians will get the Elbow joke.

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1 point

Cubits 😁

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8 points

Google said a Big Mac was 2.75” in height, 3.75” in diameter. I then had to convert that to civilised units.

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No joke, I used our European websearch qwant and found a link which says 3.5.

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