I cant remember, what is the friction coefficient for a giraffe?

This is the way. And from experience, it will result in sub-nanometer size differences.

Sorry, I don’t get the reference and the Wikipedia page didn’t help!

A big rock, maybe this is the appropriate time to use stone

Maybe in a shop vac.

As it turns out, the emergence and popularization of Zoos during the Victorian era was largely driven by the work conducted at the Royal Institute for Volumetric Measurements in London.

Similarly the expansion of the British empire was mostly driven by the need to find ever larger exotic animals in order to establish comparative volumetric weights for the ever larger ships and constructions of that era.

"25.678 standard volume foxes", was starting to become a bit unwieldy when describing a cargo vessel's size.

Nah, there's a list somewhere of typical weights, dimensions, volumes, etc. of common items. They just put in their value and it pops up. They're nerds first, and scientists second. You KNOW this exists somewhere, and they all have it bookmarked.

Ah yes the Newfoundland garden giraffe, often times overlooked due to the Canadian House Hippo.

The Smurfs were 3 apples tall.

Assume a spherical giraffe.

Even if it is not if you are just looking at the toal volume or mass it makes no difference when you halve it.

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

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.

Oh no; I saw it was the DM... I just assumed that the writer must have been American.

You are SO correct, as I should have realized by the giraffe unit of measure.

I'm at a loss as to the Venn diagram where giraffe and imperial would overlap....

I don’t know?

You mean wannabe US? (never truly accepted metric system, even discussed to change back to imperial)

Edit: fair point though. My bad.

Other people (me) hate it.

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.

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.