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Confused metric person... I'm guessing 3 inches is significantly less than 1 foot?
3 inches is ~7.6 cm and a foot is ~30 cm.
Got it, thanks. Hope I didn't spoil the joke for everybody.
If this is true, I envy you for being shielded from the abomination of a measurement system USC is 🥲
People in Australia still use feet and inches for height even though they use it practically no where else, and I'm guessing most people could not use it reliably in any other context.
"That guy is 6 feet tall"
Australians: "Oh, okay"
"That's 50 feet away"
Australians: "What"
Drives me nuts. I will be that annoying person who prompts people to say it in metres or cm. "I'm 180" (said as "one-eighty") is just as fast, and in a system we actually understand.
Ugh.
A foot is 12 inches.