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You measured your heights in Imperial and the distance between you in metric.
That's weird.
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And this is difference from average Trek fare how?
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Unless I'm mistaken, it's fairly ordinary for Brits. They also buy their gasoline (sorry... petrol) and sodas (fizzy drinks, those) by the liter, then shop for vegetables priced per pound (lb.) or piss off to the pub for a pint.
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In Canada we measure everything in metric except ourselves.
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Same in Australia - they try to get us to work in cm for heights, but no one ever does, except the police (ie, 'how tall was the offender?')
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I didn't notice the incongruity before. You're right, that does look very strange...On the other hand, that should be fairly normal on this site
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Reminds me of an old Dave Barry story. He was at a radio station in Canada, and the weather man said that it was "eight." He knew this was obviously incorrect, so he asked the guy, who said it was really about forty. Then another guy said fifty. Suddenly the room was full of people shouting out their interpretation of "eight."
Of course the capper was when he said that the scientific definition was "chilly."
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There is no eight. It's in the box with the cat.
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