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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 70 points 3 days ago
[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (4 children)

☝️🤓

Surely a yard (3ft, ~90cm) is the most equivelant to a metre, not a foot

[–] flughoernchen@feddit.org 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

We call him Big30.48centimeter in Europe.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 11 points 3 days ago

And I think it’s beautiful.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

3.048 decimeters*

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Big decimeter

[–] abcd@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

That equals 5.143 bananas

[–] rustyricotta@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Makes sense in theory, but I already call the house down the street bigyard.

[–] portuga@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if they have an iron cast foot somewhere, like we have for iso metrics. I mean feet vary greatly in size, who was it that the first foot was measured from? See, this is what keeps me awake at night.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

You're asking the wrong questions. Did they measure from heel to big toe? Or did they use the foot of one of those "second toe is longest" freaks?

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Respira, respira.

Let them handle those issues, we've settled ours already.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

And we don't park our car in Harvard yard. We leave our bicycle at the Technical University of München meter.

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Call him Bigmet (pronounced "big-meat") for short.