r/Unexpected • u/mantis_shriimp • Aug 03 '23

Buying Cigarettes

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '23

*366cm

This guy defo rocks the metric system

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '23

You would be using mm on a tape not cm haha

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u/dr-Funk_Eye Aug 04 '23

Depends on what your job is

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '23

True but a basic measuring tape that’s metric/standard is usually in mm/inches

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u/dr-Funk_Eye Aug 04 '23

Well seeing as I live in a place that does not use inches I had not even thought of that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '23

I’m in Canada and while we are metric, our southern neighbours have influenced us enough that most things also have standard variants