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Anything but metric.
Yeah like two extremely relatable and immediately identifiable sizes that are much more visceral than saying ~13.3-16m and ~38cm
Well I'm glad you posted the actual measurements because now I actually know how big it is, so thank you for that.
Both school busses and pizzas change in size around the world. Metres do not
I hate to break it to you, but when someone states anything in metric, I immediately have a feel for how large that is. That's because we usually state everything in metric, so we don't need to refer to random stuff and just learn the sizes of everything.
And yet I still have no idea how big the squid is. Buses range in size dramatically.
So do large pizzas.
How much is that in football fields?
About a 200th of a football field.
No they don't? And we can see the proportions.
A "school bus" can be a local mini that's like 8-10?m long, or a medium like 15-metre one. A "school bus" (as it would be near me) can also be an articulated main route bus that has three high schools and a major university on both ends of the corridor, at like 30 metres long.
Ditto pizzas. A "large" is such an arbitrary measurement.
as for "seeing" the proportions... if you gave me that picture and told me it was shrimp-sized (also a bit ambiguous), I couldn't question it. At best, the "pizza" and "bus" provide order of magnitude estimates.
It says bus-sized, and it's long. That makes it a standard bus, not a short bus. And we can assume it's not a city bus, because it says school bus. It's pretty clear what the approximate size is.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m gonna need you to back up at least 15 Crunchwrap Supremes away from me, me and my Baja Blast feel threatened
How much is that in AR-15s?
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.
bigger than a school bus describes a Bodega, the eiffel tower, Mexico, Jupiter and the entirety of the universe.
Everything except for smaller stuff. You know, things like tires, lug nuts, screws, atoms, electrons, etc.
What about the Uniroyal tire, the Lansing Lugnut , and the JK welding screw?
I am the first to shit on the imperial system. I have to admit I agree with you on that one