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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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  So do large pizzas.
  
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  - Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    How much is that in football fields?
    
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    cenzorrll@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    About a 200th of a football field.
    
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- RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  No they don’t? And we can see the proportions.
  
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  - rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It says bus-sized, and it’s long. That makes it a standard bus, not a short bus. And we can assume it’s not a city bus, because it says school bus. It’s pretty clear what the approximate size is.
    
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