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[–] 175 points 6 months ago (20 children)

Anything but metric.

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  • [+] -32 points 6 months ago* (19 children)

    Yeah like two extremely relatable and immediately identifiable sizes that are much more visceral than saying ~13.3-16m and ~38cm

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    What is large pizza? The only size of pizza I know is pizza. How many seats does the school bus have? That can easily change by 15 meters.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    In the US, pizzas have basically been standardized by the national chains to be 10 inch (25cm) for a small, 12 inch (30 cm) for a medium, and 14 inch (36 cm) for a large.

    Honestly, this is probably the most effective way to communicate circle sizes to me, as I am quite familiar with exactly how big each of those sizes are.

    I'm obviously familiar with other lengths as lengths, but for flat circles, there's not really a better intuitive comparison.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    In Italy a pizza is a pizza. Size can vary a little bit restaurant to restaurant, but no way you can ask a different size pizza than the one you're being served.

    Some places may offer slightly smaller ones for kids, but that's quite uncommon.

    As you can see, this is not at all a reliable way to communicate sizes: I have no way to decypher how large a large pizza is.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    That's exactly my point. While this may make sense for your average fast food loving American, it just doesn't in the rest of the world.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Them there's also the problem the fast food corpos made themselves when they expand internationally, they have to downsize their portion sizes because the rest of the world doesn't eat like fast food loving Americans.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    bigger than a school bus describes a Bodega, the eiffel tower, Mexico, Jupiter and the entirety of the universe.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Everything except for smaller stuff. You know, things like tires, lug nuts, screws, atoms, electrons, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Be really easy to say something like "squid the size of a 15 meter bus with eyes the size of a 38cm pizza"

    Now I'm wondering how the search trends look when these stories hit. Does google have a spike of people asking how big a school bus is and/or for average size of large pizza? Is it something they're doing on purpose to gather more data on us?

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