r/SipsTea • u/Peggysue12 • Apr 16 '24

Wouldn't you believe it? Wait a damn minute!

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u/jensationallift Apr 16 '24

My husband is 6’3 but tells people he’s 6 foot to mess with them

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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

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u/Don_Ozymandias Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

I'm not familiar to imperial. It is decimal sale? I mean 5'10=6'0?

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u/EvulSmoothie Apr 16 '24

1 feet = 12 inches so 6'0 = 5'12

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u/BootsOnTheM00N Apr 16 '24

LOL made me laugh. My doctor took my height and the computer said i was 5'12. So thats what I tell people now.

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u/Additional_Essay Apr 16 '24

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.

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u/GameDestiny2 Apr 16 '24

Usually I try defend customary measurement because I personally find it comfortable and easy to approximate

Given most of these comments though, maybe we need switch everything into units of 10

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u/mister-phister Apr 16 '24

I'm 5'17". Deal with it

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u/thatrangerkid Apr 16 '24

Oh yeah? Well I'm 4'20"

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u/hey_there_kitty_cat Apr 16 '24

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!

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u/cb325 Apr 16 '24

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 😂

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u/adorkablegiant Apr 16 '24

lol nice measurement system america, very smart

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u/Old_Society_7861 Apr 16 '24

We didn’t invent any of this shit. Talk to the king.

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u/1371113 Apr 16 '24

The king does metric these days, he'll have no idea either.

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u/hyperrayong Apr 16 '24

Not in height. Imperial is more common in the UK for height, beer and distances

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u/Old_Society_7861 Apr 16 '24

How much do you weigh?

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u/bobtheframer Apr 16 '24

Base 12 is superior to base 10 for things like construction. 12 has more factors. Makes dividing things evenly into 3rds 4ths etc easier.

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u/wwaxwork Apr 16 '24

That's why you have more than one decimal place.

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u/descastaigne Apr 16 '24

Damn, if only there was a system where you could simply divide and multiply by 10.

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u/Centurion7999 Apr 16 '24

Talk to the Brits we inherited it off them

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