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- cross-posted to:
- anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de
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The Daily Mail readership will not fathom your question. It is a rag for those who would follow MAGA but want to appear intelligent without have either the natural talent or putting in any work to increase knowledge. Baseline racism is a requirement
Reads Daily Mail clickbait, proceeds to blame “scientists”
The thing that’s bothering me is that they ended a question with a period. Why, random person on the Internet, why?
Indeed, why would they do that.
I don’t know?
Halved with a vertical cut.
Bilaterally as is the way.
Probably along the primary axis
americans be using anything but the metric system
Its time to retire the metric system in favor of something base 12. Base 10 is for children who need to count on their fingers, base 12 is easier to divide into quarters or thirds. Babylon was right.
Daily Mail is British
But they’re the sort of British that yearns for the good old days, when we still had shillings and inches and diphtheria and jumpers for goalposts and no womens’ rights and all that great British stuff.
British people old enough to have supported the original nazis be using anything but the metric system
I was thinking this must be metric because only Europeans with their noses firmly in the air would get it.
Americans be using metric all our lives.
Yeah, we measure our soda in liters all the time, but only the 2 litre bottles. Other sizes are in ounces, and milk is in gallons and sometimes pints.
In other words, a large boulder the size of a small boulder
Solomon’s giraffe…
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I don’t get why Americans are doing their best to avoid the metric system. It’s always weird discriptions. Like dishwashers, or in this case, half a giraffe. Just use bananas if (cubic) meters are too complex.
Isn’t daily mail in the UK?
You mean wannabe US? (never truly accepted metric system, even discussed to change back to imperial)
Edit: fair point though. My bad.
As a USian, even we are baffled by measuring things in hands and stone.
Exactly. The only real unit is football fields.
It’s not like we don’t have imperial units to use. It’s just easier to visualize an object you’re familiar with than 20ft/6m or whatever other unit. Giraffes is a strange choice though.
Friends of mine are expecting a child. They have an app to compare the current size of the baby. It has the weirdest choices:
- Wedding cake (they are always the same size? Depends on the budget right? So if you’re rich your child is bigger than when you’re poor, when it’s the wedding cake size?)
- flat box of chocolates (always the same size? Flat child?)
- small popcorn bucket
- small pinguin (there are so many differently sized small pinguïns)
- cotton candy (last one I had was huge, I feel sorry for the woman with a child that size in their womb)
- maki
- jackfruit
- rhubarb (so it’s a stick shaped child?)
- kitten (a grows the most as a kitten. They are kitten for the first year. It’s like saying the size of your baby is the size of a baby.)
I have no clue what these sizes are exactly. I do know what 10cm or 20cm is.
People enjoy when things are compared in this way, it’s really not that shocking.
Other people (me) hate it.
Neat, thanks for letting us all know!
Why do people online caste Americans as the culprit when this is clearly from a British source?
Yeah sorry, based on assumption. Because the US (plus a few tiny islands) refuses to switch to metric even though imperial is obsolete and complicated. It’s also usual practice in the US to use weird things for measurements. Cars, dishwashers, etc.
So in this case it was a wrong assumption on my part.
I’m deeply sorry.
It’s more of a journalist thing. They take the words out of your mouth to reach their own conclusion fast and deliver an answer that’ll fit inside the allocated screen time.
“When you heard that people use things instead of measurements to explain the size of other things, exactly how shocking was it to you?”
They describe these random things to avoid people talking about giraffes for hours.
The anatomical answer is sagitally down the midline.
Even if you think height divided by two, why even describe it that way? Giraffes are tall, but not so unfathomably tall that something half its size is incomprehensible. That’s 7-9ish feet. You couldn’t say the size of Andre the Giant?
People usually measure asteroids by mass (but then, those people are already abnormal, so who knows?), if so, it’s something around the size of a cow.
Or maybe they could use metric…
A big rock, maybe this is the appropriate time to use stone
How many stones does a big rock weight?
Very big stone = big rock Big stone = rock Stone = small rock
Everyone that says metric is easy haven’t figured this out.
Alex Horn wrote it.
Sorry, I don’t get the reference and the Wikipedia page didn’t help!
In his show Taskmaster he is well known for both writing tasks and making jokes through intentionally obtuse language and uncommon phrasing. Frequently the “obvious” interpretation of a task turns out to be non-obvious, or the answer to a riddle is this kind of nondeterministic situation that trips up the contestants and makes for better funny.
Which is to say, the author of the headline is a troll, and did it internationally to bait this very kind of conversation. You won’t know which way they sliced the giraffe unless you read the entire thing! Of course, after you do, you still won’t know.
Ah, no wonder the Wikipedia page didn’t help… the top result when I searched was for a cult leader named Alex Horn. Thanks for the explanation!
The above explanation is correct, but specifically, he uses weird measurements. Like if a task involves counting a distance, he won’t use something reasonable like meters, but how many rubber ducks long.
They meant Alex Horne
You divide the giraffe vertically down the center 🤦♂️
Coronal or Sagittal?
It’s not the scientists, it’s a single journalist who is popping out these headlines. Some of those caught attention.
Easy. Just imagine only the spots part.
