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Dissy:
For all you American types:
169 cm is 66 inches
178 cm is 70 inches
13 stone is 182 lbs
Any others I missed?
Ozymandias:
Guys, why isn't this thread talking about me at all as a paragon of basically being the perfect male?
Someone feed my ego. Feeeeeed.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: redglasscurls on 16 May 2008, 13:40 ---I guess I just wish there were a commonly used term in the metric system, even if it were decimeters, to refer to something about a foot long. It's probably from growing up thinking in inches/feet, but I think the foot measure is very handy.
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Builders sometimes seem to work in units of 300mm (30cm) which they call a "metric foot". It's like in France and Germany, when buying food they may refer to 500g (1/2 kg) as a "pound" (well, as they're foreign, "pfund" etc).
--- Quote from: n0t_r0bert_b0yle!! on 16 May 2008, 14:39 ---Not only is it small, but it's more accurate
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<pedant>It's not more accurate - it's more precise</pedant>
Paul
Tom:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 16 May 2008, 17:05 ---Guys, why isn't this thread talking about me at all as a paragon of basically being the perfect male?
Someone feed my ego. Feeeeeed.
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Sorry Ozy, you're not.... but this man is!
CardinalFang:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 16 May 2008, 15:12 ---It all boils down to metres, you see? It makes sense! And the system is not based on the arm length of greasy-slicked-back-haired businessmen trying to lure off an extra foot of rope with long arms, like yours is. One metre is, according to science (we should all believe in science), 1⁄299,792,458 of a light-second. So if you really want to fuck with people, start giving up your height in light-seconds.
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Oh sure it's based on the speed of light now.
Before that it was the krypton-86 atom
and before that it was a bar of platinum-iridium
and before that it was just a regular old platinum bar
and before that it was equal to one ten-millionth of the length of the Earth's meridian along a quadrant through Paris, that is the distance from the equator to the north pole
and before THAT it was equal to the length of a pendulum with a half-period of one second
I'll wait until they make up their minds.
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