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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Farideh on 16 Jan 2022, 18:11
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A new week has dawned.
No poll, more an open-ended question: what kind of design are Millie and Beeps getting?
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Poor Emmett. They must REALLY like Sam if they're willing to put themselves into such uncomfortable situations.
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Wait, are they dating? When did that happen?
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ah, there's the angelic "BE NOT AFRAID."
and the armored hoodie goes back on. :(
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Wait, are they dating? When did that happen?
Well, normally a matching tattoo (or spray in this case) would be indicative of that but, with Beeps and Millie I wouldn't be so sure. It's the sort of thing they'd do because they're platonic BFFs, because 'it sounds fun' or something. Maybe they literally have no idea of the implications and we are going to have a realisation strip later on!
On a related tangent, when was the last time we saw Brun?
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Maybe they literally have no idea of the implications and we are going to have a realisation strip later on!
Oh, and maybe then they just shrug and say "let's date, that actually sounds fun".
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Wouldn't be the first time Millefeuille accidentally went on a date. (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4249)
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Wait, are they dating? When did that happen?
Not necessarily. I have one friend who was thinking of getting a matching one with a former flatmate.
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Wait, are they dating? When did that happen?
Not necessarily. I have one friend who was thinking of getting a matching one with a former flatmate.
Ditto. Me and my best friend from high school almost got matching faction symbols. But we both chickened out.
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Well, normally a matching tattoo (or spray in this case) would be indicative of that but, with Beeps and Millie I wouldn't be so sure. It's the sort of thing they'd do because they're platonic BFFs, because 'it sounds fun' or something. Maybe they literally have no idea of the implications and we are going to have a realisation strip later on!
On a related tangent, when was the last time we saw Brun?
I think we last saw Brun here (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4510)
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My vote in the not-poll:
Dancing skeletons. Puking knives, That are on fire.
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Maybe they literally have no idea of the implications and we are going to have a realisation strip later on!
Oh, and maybe then they just shrug and say "let's date, that actually sounds fun".
I mean, doing everything associated with dating up to and including making ill-considered body art purchases declaring their connection without realizing it would be entirely in character for Beeps and Mille.
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New comic.
Having a space telescope tattoo/spray would be quite cool.
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I've been out of social media since Orkut, except for WhatsApp, that's useful in my job, and some internet forums, and I feel like I'm not losing much.
Also, few years back, I considered tattooing the symbol of a vacuum tube (a penthode, to be more specific). Glad I didn't.
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Maybe they literally have no idea of the implications and we are going to have a realisation strip later on!
Oh, and maybe then they just shrug and say "let's date, that actually sounds fun".
I mean, doing everything associated with dating up to and including making ill-considered body art purchases declaring their connection without realizing it would be entirely in character for Beeps and Mille.
Beeps and Mille fit in well with the rest of the characters in this comic then! - some of whom are notoriously oblivious at times :-D
"Slow-burn realisations" are a thing (a funny thing!) with Jeph's characters.
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I've been out of social media since Orkut, except for WhatsApp, that's useful in my job, and some internet forums, and I feel like I'm not losing much.
Also, few years back, I considered tattooing the symbol of a vacuum tube (a penthode, to be more specific). Glad I didn't.
The only non-forum social media site that's even really worth visiting is tumblr. It's a damn sight easier to curate your experience on it than most of the others I've tried. And a sizable chunk of what's on the other ones (especially tiktok) is lifted directly from tumblr[1]. It's just a shame that the new owner(s) is/are trying to broker a deal to bring in new users through Disney and other fandom promises[2].
[1] Yes, I'm aware there's several screen caps of tweets on tumblr. That one's probably a more even exchange between the two. Possibly imbalanced when considering most of the more annoying tumblrites migrating to twitter after the 2017 tumblr titty ban. And they're rehashing 2015 tumblr discourse.
[2] I don't have all of the details, but (https://64.media.tumblr.com/2ff979cea202365487b9cab4a4884ff2/67377359425118ea-05/s1280x1920/3af8ede3ee9a12a4eeeacda0891c38ef2795f1a4.jpg) source: The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-tumblr-became-popular-for-being-obsolete)
EDIT: Seperated out the pertinent info ftom the blog post it took too long to find during break.
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I've said this elsewhere but my enjoyment of social media is directly proportional to the degree of moderation. Frankly, I have to avoid the comments section on even major commercial sites because they're essentially city-sized landfills that have been on fire for 20 years.
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As a Canadian I never really notice there is an accent untill it is literally spelled out in front of you. It looks weird but I understand everything the way it is spelt.
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You are aware that there isn't just one generic Canadian accent, I hope. There are many regional ones.
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I work with someone from Alberta and she sounds to me exactly like she’s from Wisconsin. :psyduck:
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New comic.
Knowledge is a dangerous thing!
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That's the thing about dehydration and heat exhaustion. They both sneak up on you and suddenly lay you out.
Also a couple pinches of salt can be extremely beneficial if you've been moving and/or sweating a lot and drinking only water all day and have had little to no food.
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Where I live 27 °C isn't hot at all.
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They'd better not be trying to give Emmett conversion therapy!
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The answer to Emmett's final question is "one", to a close approximation.
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Where I live 27 °C isn't hot at all.
Hard pass for me then.
I'd rather be cold than hot.
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Hard pass for me then.
I'd rather be cold than hot.
Ditto. If you're cold, you can bundle yourself up until you look like a marshmallow and no one will bat an eye. If you're hot, there's only so many layers of clothing you can take off before people start yelling.
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Maybe it's true that comfort is mostly in the head. So long as Emmett didn't know and understand that it was hot, they could fool themself that it wasn't hot.
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Maybe it's true that comfort is mostly in the head. So long as Emmett didn't know and understand that it was hot, they could fool themself that it wasn't hot.
right up until they actually fell over, which was apparently imminent...
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Why do they have a fan without a cover? I'm beginning to think that safety isn't one of their strengths.
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It might have been in their pile of 'dismantle for scrap' appliances.
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Re: the text under the comic: are those Gregorian or sidereal years?
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Wassat in meters?
Ooh this is bringing back memories of having to figure out what was meant by "miles", out of 12 different possibilities.
Only around 8 kilometers difference (thats...5... miles? ) - hours of Funfun funfunfunfun! :grumpypuss:
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Wassat in meters?
Ooh this is bringing back memories of having to figure out what was meant by "miles", out of 12 different possibilities.
Only around 8 kilometers difference (thats...5... miles? ) - hours of Funfun funfunfunfun! :grumpypuss:
I read the quoted part of your post out loud for whatever reason and it finally hit me why "Wassat" was bugging me so much. I actually do say 'wassat' when saying 'what's that' out loud, though there is a hint of a th in there.
Whenever I do km/mi conversions I have reference numbers I go by. If it's miles to km, I just take 60% of the miles (it's not the 0.62 needed for an accurate number, but it's close enough). For km to miles, I know that 5km is a tad over 3mi, so I go up from there. So 10km=6mi, 50km=30mi, etc. Even in four digit distances, it's only a 20mi deviation per 1000km, so for ballparking it works out fine.
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Oof, I feel Emmett in that last panel. I want to be a tree, personally.
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I'm sure Emmett would like to believe that, but I'm of the strong opinion that dogs (and their wild ancestors) have the full/same emotional range we do.
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Maybe it's true that comfort is mostly in the head. So long as Emmett didn't know and understand that it was hot, they could fool themself that it wasn't hot.
A pleasant and comforting notion fore sure, but sadly one that is easily refuted. I've worked a myriad of jobs and can tell you if you're outside or the HVAC system is terrible, a hot day will mess people over regardless of their awareness of the temperature.
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I'm sure Emmett would like to believe that, but I'm of the strong opinion that dogs (and their wild ancestors) have the full/same emotional range we do.
They can get quite a few of the same mental health disorders as humans too.
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Where I live 27 °C isn't hot at all.
27 C is nice hoodie weather imo. Unless I'm standing in direct sunlight... but in the shade or inside, sure. I probably wouldn't have a long sleeve tee on underneath it though, just a tank or singlet.
Hard pass for me then.
I'd rather be cold than hot.
Ditto. If you're cold, you can bundle yourself up until you look like a marshmallow and no one will bat an eye. If you're hot, there's only so many layers of clothing you can take off before people start yelling.
So many people say this but it's zero comfort to me in winter. It doesn't matter how much extra clothing I bundle up in (including gloves, scarf and multiple hats!), I will still be too cold unless I'm either in the shower or under the covers in bed. Not being able to get warm all winter long is way worse than being too hot in summer for me. We don't even have particularly bad winters here from an objective perspective. Perhaps I need to move to the tropics.
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I'm sure Emmett would like to believe that, but I'm of the strong opinion that dogs (and their wild ancestors) have the full/same emotional range we do.
Dogs show joy and fear and anger, and when I visited a sanctuary for rescued wolves, the staff told me about grief. Howling is routine and they know what it normally sounds like. One of their wolves died of natural causes and the humans were excruciated by the pain in his widow's howl.
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Oof, I'm trying not to project onto Emmett here, but this sounds like dysphoria could be involved. I suffer from severe social anxiety, and I never quite understood why my anxiety isn't about embarassing myself or anything like that, but instead about just being seen or noticed makes me feel very uncomfortable.
It was only with realising I'm definitely not cis (so at 26), that I understood that what is so uncomfortable is being seen as "a man".
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Oof, I'm trying not to project onto Emmett here, but this sounds like dysphoria could be involved.
Oh good, so I am not the only person who had the thought. I got the exact same vibe.
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New comic. Puberty is really a metamorphosis.
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This is true.
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Oddly enough, the only larvae I can think of that's fully reliant on their parents/family are social insects. With most of those examples being from Hymenoptera.
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This is true.
I really wish that I could have spent it in a cocoon.
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"I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis, than having that old pre-made opinion on everything"
Roughly the translation of part of a song called "metamorfose ambulante"
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Faye and Bubbles may have incompatible ideas on starting a family ("WE ARE WORKING ON THAT TECHNOLOGY"). They should talk this through.
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I consider this strip as a reminder about why we'll never see any of the characters in QC start a family in the conventional biological way. It's because Jeph dislikes babies to the point where it's close to a phobic aversion and, because of that, he cannot draw or write them at all.
That isn't a criticism; we all have weird quirks after all. However, it is something that people need to bear in mind when addressing their own expectations for the future of the strip.
This aside, I think that Sam and Emmett are very, very cute together. They are very obviously deeply into a puppy-crush. Sam, at least, doesn't know it.
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Wassat in meters?
Ooh this is bringing back memories of having to figure out what was meant by "miles", out of 12 different possibilities.
Only around 8 kilometers difference (thats...5... miles? ) - hours of Funfun funfunfunfun! :grumpypuss:
I read the quoted part of your post out loud for whatever reason and it finally hit me why "Wassat" was bugging me so much. I actually do say 'wassat' when saying 'what's that' out loud, though there is a hint of a th in there.
Whenever I do km/mi conversions I have reference numbers I go by. If it's miles to km, I just take 60% of the miles (it's not the 0.62 needed for an accurate number, but it's close enough). For km to miles, I know that 5km is a tad over 3mi, so I go up from there. So 10km=6mi, 50km=30mi, etc. Even in four digit distances, it's only a 20mi deviation per 1000km, so for ballparking it works out fine.
I do something similar for inches to centimeters; 65in = 165cm.
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Wassat in meters?
Ooh this is bringing back memories of having to figure out what was meant by "miles", out of 12 different possibilities.
Only around 8 kilometers difference (thats...5... miles? ) - hours of Funfun funfunfunfun! :grumpypuss:
I read the quoted part of your post out loud for whatever reason and it finally hit me why "Wassat" was bugging me so much. I actually do say 'wassat' when saying 'what's that' out loud, though there is a hint of a th in there.
Whenever I do km/mi conversions I have reference numbers I go by. If it's miles to km, I just take 60% of the miles (it's not the 0.62 needed for an accurate number, but it's close enough). For km to miles, I know that 5km is a tad over 3mi, so I go up from there. So 10km=6mi, 50km=30mi, etc. Even in four digit distances, it's only a 20mi deviation per 1000km, so for ballparking it works out fine.
I do something similar for inches to centimeters; 65in = 165cm.
Oddly enough, speeds, distances, and temps have never been any issue for me, but weights and especially liquid I have never been able to fully internalize. From lbs to kg is OK (mostly because we also have the 500-g pound, close enough to the lbs) but anything on ounces/gallons to mL is a disaster and I've given up on it.
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Same here. No problem with inches, feet, miles, pounds, and I grew up using metric. Ounces, gallons, are way less intuitive for me. Fahrenheit is a different story, since it not only have a different value for each degree, but also a different reference point (the freezing temperature of water, 0°C and 32°F). This brings an extra factor to the calculation, so it's not just to multiply by something. Do you guys get me?
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I can work well enough in either system as long as I don’t have to convert. I know what hot/cold, near/far, light/heavy are in both, so that’s enough for daily needs.
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Wassat in meters?
Ooh this is bringing back memories of having to figure out what was meant by "miles", out of 12 different possibilities.
Only around 8 kilometers difference (thats...5... miles? ) - hours of Funfun funfunfunfun! :grumpypuss:
I read the quoted part of your post out loud for whatever reason and it finally hit me why "Wassat" was bugging me so much. I actually do say 'wassat' when saying 'what's that' out loud, though there is a hint of a th in there.
Whenever I do km/mi conversions I have reference numbers I go by. If it's miles to km, I just take 60% of the miles (it's not the 0.62 needed for an accurate number, but it's close enough). For km to miles, I know that 5km is a tad over 3mi, so I go up from there. So 10km=6mi, 50km=30mi, etc. Even in four digit distances, it's only a 20mi deviation per 1000km, so for ballparking it works out fine.
I do something similar for inches to centimeters; 65in = 165cm.
Oddly enough, speeds, distances, and temps have never been any issue for me, but weights and especially liquid I have never been able to fully internalize. From lbs to kg is OK (mostly because we also have the 500-g pound, close enough to the lbs) but anything on ounces/gallons to mL is a disaster and I've given up on it.
I learned recently that Alton Brown lied when he said the mnemonic “A pint is a pound, the world around.” A pound is 454 grams. A pint (in the United States, anyway) is 16 fluid ounces, which, if a fluid ounce is an ounce, should thus be 454 mL. But a fluid ounce is not an ounce. Which means that a pint is actually 473 mL. :psyduck: It gets even weirder when you consider that the FDA actually uses its own definition of the fluid ounce, which is exactly 30 mL.
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I'm just glad that my local serves 20oz pints.
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Jeph and babies. Dora and 'poo-larvae'.
Seeing this for the first time, I'd think Sam was a boy and Emmett was a girl.
( you wanna see that spray or not )
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I'm just glad that my local serves 20oz pints.
Thing is, the US version of the volume measurements almost makes sense. Everything is powers of two. Two tablespoons in a fluid ounce. Eight fluid ounces in a cup. Two cups per pint, two pints per quart, four quarts per gallon. It’s just that the fluid ounce is defined stupidly. Oh, and the teaspoon. Screw teaspoons.
The UK version, on the other hand, doesn’t even attempt to make sense. Its only advantage is larger pints of beer.
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I'm just glad that my local serves 20oz pints.
The UK version, on the other hand, doesn’t even attempt to make sense. Its only advantage is larger pints of beer.
I would say that is a pretty compelling advantage.
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My thought exactly.
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If you like beer, I guess.
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Where I live 27 °C isn't hot at all.
Same. We just finished a six-day streak of 40+°C temperatures and are now enjoying the pleasant relative coolness of the low 30s. And it's not even the hottest part of summer yet, which is usually February here - though I'm really hoping we don't get a repeat of that next month.
The air conditioner is still running nonstop but at least this week I've been able to do more than just lie in front of it quietly.
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Some imperial person: Please move 3 feet
Me: Whats that in meters ? ... Lightyears !? ... Ångström ???
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I don’t know, “feet” seems kind of self explanatory. Most people have two of them.
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Exactly one short. :roll:
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I don’t know, “feet” seems kind of self explanatory. Most people have two of them.
That doesn't follow at all - just because the imperial measure's name is "foot" doesn't mean anyone is going to assume that their own foot is meant to represent that length. After all, this is the quirky English language we're talking about here - the old imperial system is full of weird names that bear no apparent resemblance to reality..."chains", "rods", "yards", "pecks", "gills", "grains"...why should anyone assume that the "foot" as a measure of length had anything to do with human feet?
[Also, I measured my foot and it's way short of 30 centimeters (which is roughly an imperial foot) in length. If I used my foot's length to measure my height, I am apparently just shy of seven feet tall] :-D
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Wasn't it some random king's foot?
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The 'foot' as a unit of measurement has a rich and varied history (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit)). On a first skim, the only reference to it being a specific person's foot was in ancient Rome (Nero Claudius Drusus).
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I seem to remember an Astérix comic, where they said that the Olympic stadium was paced out by Hercules, deducing from that that he should have had a size 42 boot.
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“feet” seems kind of self explanatory.
Sure.
Just like, for example, "stone". Another imperial unit that "is kind of self explanatory" and yet I have no clue what it means.
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Eh, stones are not self-explanatory. Is it a big stone? A little stone? A small boulder the size of a large boulder? But most people have feet, and they're usually within a certain range of sizes that are within a factor of 2 or so of the unit of measurement.
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Still I have no clue what that size is.
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You don't know what size your feet are?
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Still I have no clue what that size is.
It's about the length of an adult human foot. Yes, those vary in size considerably, but they are within the same order of magnitude, and that's about how long one standard foot is.
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With boots on, three for me is almost precicesly 1m. At least for me, memorising a few common reference points made things easier.
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FWIW, the Imperial Foot is about 0.31m. Please don't ask me to be more precise than that.
I'm sure that there was a time when it was the length of some royal foot, just as the yard is probably one stride length, toe-to-heel of a particularly notable person.
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You don't know what size your feet are?
I dont know what distance that is.
You tell me 3 feet and unless I would actuall try to measure that with my feet I have no clue what 3 feet actually means.
You tell me a meter and I immediately know what that is because I've measured things in meter all my life.
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And in some countries, the whole thing is a mess:
(https://i.redd.it/cs4pnrfixfv71.jpg)
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I’m tempted to make a version of that for here in Canada… there are some notable differences to that UK version. Canada is mostly metric… unless you’re setting the temperature on your oven (Fahrenheit), or buying meat at the butcher shop (pounds, but grocery stores use kg for meat). A person’s height can be in either cm or in ft/in. Milk is in liters only (typically in the form of a 4L bag that contains 3 smaller 1.33 L bags). Beer comes in 16 US fluid ounce cans, but it’s labeled in mL (specifically 473 mL). Butter comes in 454 g blocks (1 lb, of course).