Comment on baby blues

• Thorry@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hate to break it to you, but when someone states anything in metric, I immediately have a feel for how large that is. That’s because we usually state everything in metric, so we don’t need to refer to random stuff and just learn the sizes of everything.

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  • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And yet I still have no idea how big the squid is. Buses range in size dramatically.

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    • nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So do large pizzas.

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      • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How much is that in football fields?

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    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No they don’t? And we can see the proportions.

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      • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A “school bus” can be a local mini that’s like 8-10?m long, or a medium like 15-metre one. A “school bus” (as it would be near me) can also be an articulated main route bus that has three high schools and a major university on both ends of the corridor, at like 30 metres long.

        Ditto pizzas. A “large” is such an arbitrary measurement.

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  • Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Real LPT is always in the comments

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• MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Both school busses and pizzas change in size around the world. Metres do not

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  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sorry. Even feet and inches don’t change. Its easy to use the internet and swap feet to meters (even getting a few common conversions memorised) but whale or bus I can’t really learn that.

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• Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well I’m glad you posted the actual measurements because now I actually know how big it is, so thank you for that.

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• ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is large pizza? The only size of pizza I know is pizza. How many seats does the school bus have? That can easily change by 15 meters.

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  • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the US, pizzas have basically been standardized by the national chains to be 10 inch (25cm) for a small, 12 inch (30 cm) for a medium, and 14 inch (36 cm) for a large.

    Honestly, this is probably the most effective way to communicate circle sizes to me, as I am quite familiar with exactly how big each of those sizes are.

    I’m obviously familiar with other lengths as lengths, but for flat circles, there’s not really a better intuitive comparison.

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    • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In Italy a pizza is a pizza. Size can vary a little bit restaurant to restaurant, but no way you can ask a different size pizza than the one you’re being served.

      Some places may offer slightly smaller ones for kids, but that’s quite uncommon.

      As you can see, this is not at all a reliable way to communicate sizes: I have no way to decypher how large a large pizza is.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s exactly my point. While this may make sense for your average fast food loving American, it just doesn’t in the rest of the world.

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      • JayGray91@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Them there’s also the problem the fast food corpos made themselves when they expand internationally, they have to downsize their portion sizes because the rest of the world doesn’t eat like fast food loving Americans.

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      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Iv always loved how people attack Americans for using dumb refences for measurements by just being racist towards all Americans.

        Xenophobic? Is there a word for attacking a person based on their nation of origin? I guess xenophobic would be accurate.

        Its not like other countries also don’t use stupid refences to every day objects to make comparisons. Nope just an American thing that requires them also to be fat and uneducated.

        We love causal xenophobia and racism here on lemmy!

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      • porkloin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m gonna need you to back up at least 15 Crunchwrap Supremes away from me, me and my Baja Blast feel threatened

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• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  bigger than a school bus describes a Bodega, the eiffel tower, Mexico, Jupiter and the entirety of the universe.

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  • ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Everything except for smaller stuff. You know, things like tires, lug nuts, screws, atoms, electrons, etc.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What about the Uniroyal tire, the Lansing Lugnut , and the JK welding screw?

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      • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Was that when she trash talked the actors?

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• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The thing about a meter is that it’s the same length everywhere. A large pizza and a bus, however…

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• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am the first to shit on the imperialsystelm. I have to admit I agree with you on that one

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• JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Be really easy to say something like “squid the size of a 15 meter bus with eyes the size of a 38cm pizza”

  Now I’m wondering how the search trends look when these stories hit. Does google have a spike of people asking how big a school bus is and/or for average size of large pizza? Is it something they’re doing on purpose to gather more data on us?

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