Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.

• toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Us metric people usually say metres. I’m one meter 86.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Leave off the word “metre” and it doesn’t matter whether you’re using metres or cm. You’re “one eighty-six”. Is that a lazy way of saying “one [hundred and] eighty-six”, quite common when talking about numbers in the hundreds, or the lazy way of saying “one [metre] eighty-six [centimetres]”, a common shorthand similar to shortening “six [feet] five [inches]”? The answer is it doesn’t matter!

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    • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Unless you’re reaaaally small

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      • toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m one eighty six… kilometers!

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m American and that’s how I’ve started giving my height. I’m 191.

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