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Re: Milestones
[quote name="Choson"][quote name="Quétinbec "][quote name="Choson"][quote name="Quétinbec "][quote name="Fussbett"]Is metric really your first instinct when talking about human height and weight? I'm tempted to say that being older than you I'm a relic of a bygone age who couldn't even guess their weight in kilos, but then again I interact with other non-mom Canadians all the time and no one looks at me weird if I say "6 feet". I still get the coffee I ordered or what have you.[/quote] If you're on the wrong side of the 6ft milestone, you list your height in cm's. I'm not but another reason for listing my height in feet is because 196cm is too close to the freakish sounding 200cm, whereas 6'6 sounds a long way from the freakish 7 feet. If you're American, though, you'll be too stupid to have any choice in the matter. [/quote] What the fuck are you talking about? You live in New Zealand, of course you're going to answer that. We're talking about Canadians here, dummy.[/quote] I don't give a fuck what you're talking about. People in countries familiar with both systems are able to pick the system that produces the number that most modestly describes the shameful characteristic they are measuring. For instance, everyone knows the average white penis is 5.5 inches long, so that's your "6 feet" of dick length, but there's no <i>metric</i> milestone for dick length. Say your dick is 4.5 inches long. If you want to hide how small that is, you say it's 11.5cm because that way, you don't fall short of a milestone. [/quote] By "you", you literally mean you, the idiot in New Zealand. Because no one else does that.[/quote]