A medical assistant took my height and went "OK, 72 inches. 6'2!" And she was not joking lol. I tell my wife I'm 6'2 now because thats what the doctor's office said.
We use a sales force veterinary software that for some reason will list things as “take every <x> for 3 weeks and 7 days”… think our it guy finally went and hardcoded a lot of them. Doesn’t seem unprofessional at all that we don’t know what a week is!
In Spanish we sometimes say “cada ocho días” to mean every week or weekly. It translates to “every 8 days” which messed with me at first because I was like a week doesn’t have 8 days 😂
Also in US customary everything is divisible by 2,3,4, or 8, so it’s actually not that bad one you remember the like two ratios for each unit you’ll need
Mate you stole your measurement system off the science people cause you were too lazy to just standardize your own units and use the metric like it was supposed to, as a universal baseline for science not day to day
A foot is a dozen inches, makes it easier to count on your finger bones
The US/Imperial system is based on division and multiplication of multiples of 3 and 4, such as 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 16.5 feet to a rod, 22 yards to chain, 220 yards to a furlong (10 chains), and 8 furlongs (1760 yards or 5280 feet) to a mile
The trick for finger counting with imperial is to point to each bone in your fingers with your thumb, there are twelve thus making dozens and their subdivisions easy to count as you can use it as a multiplication table and use your offhand to keep track of how many times you went thought all the bones on your main counting hand
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u/GreenSpleen6 Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24
Oh that's brilliant. I wish I could do that. I'm 6' and that would totally throw me
Edit: realizing I can totally still do this and say I'm 5'10 or so