Comment on how do you slice it??

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not like we don’t have imperial units to use. It’s just easier to visualize an object you’re familiar with than 20ft/6m or whatever other unit. Giraffes is a strange choice though.

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Friends of mine are expecting a child. They have an app to compare the current size of the baby. It has the weirdest choices:

    • Wedding cake (they are always the same size? Depends on the budget right? So if you’re rich your child is bigger than when you’re poor, when it’s the wedding cake size?)
    • flat box of chocolates (always the same size? Flat child?)
    • small popcorn bucket
    • small pinguin (there are so many differently sized small pinguïns)
    • cotton candy (last one I had was huge, I feel sorry for the woman with a child that size in their womb)
    • maki
    • jackfruit
    • rhubarb (so it’s a stick shaped child?)
    • kitten (a grows the most as a kitten. They are kitten for the first year. It’s like saying the size of your baby is the size of a baby.)

    I have no clue what these sizes are exactly. I do know what 10cm or 20cm is.

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• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People enjoy when things are compared in this way, it’s really not that shocking.

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s more of a journalist thing. They take the words out of your mouth to reach their own conclusion fast and deliver an answer that’ll fit inside the allocated screen time.

    “When you heard that people use things instead of measurements to explain the size of other things, exactly how shocking was it to you?”

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Other people (me) hate it.

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Neat, thanks for letting us all know!

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      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah sorry, based on assumption. Because the US (plus a few tiny islands) refuses to switch to metric even though imperial is obsolete and complicated. It’s also usual practice in the US to use weird things for measurements. Cars, dishwashers, etc.

        So in this case it was a wrong assumption on my part.

        I’m deeply sorry.

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• morkyporky@suppo.fi ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t daily mail in the UK?

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean wannabe US? (never truly accepted metric system, even discussed to change back to imperial)

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As a USian, even we are baffled by measuring things in hands and stone.

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      • wischi@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Exactly. The only real unit is football fields.

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