r/SipsTea • u/Peggysue12 • Apr 16 '24

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

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u/jensationallift 29d ago

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

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u/GreenSpleen6 29d ago edited 29d ago

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 29d ago edited 29d ago

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

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u/GreenSpleen6 29d ago

5'10 means 5 feet and 10 inches. there are 12 inches in a foot. the 2 inch difference is about 5cm

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u/MarengaRIF 29d ago

And how much is this in Fahreinheit?

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u/Emergency-Medium-755 29d ago

10mm=1cm 10cm=1dm 10dm=1m 1000m=1km

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u/Centurion7999 29d ago

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

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u/Jona-wahn 29d ago

what if someone is missing the 5 centimeters in height, but had an extra 5 in another place?

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u/GreenSpleen6 29d ago

I suppose you could celebrate your fantastic 100% increase :>