• @Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    08 months ago

    Don’t mention A4 paper, it scares the Americans. If any of them could read, they would be very afraid right now.

        • EbbyA
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          18 months ago

          sips tea and extends pinky

          Am I doing metric right?

          • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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            08 months ago

            Actually no, the Brits shit on us for it but by most approaches they’re actually even worse than we are

            The bruvs be usin’ STONE out here and acting like they get to crack wise

          • Actually a size. More commonly referred to as “letter” sized. It’s 8x11.5 inches, which is pretty close to A4, but it’ll confuse printers if you mix the 2 up.

            • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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              08 months ago

              but it’ll confuse printers if you mix the 2 up.

              So far all printers I’ve seen can switch between both. The real problem is your Writer/Word document, because after the slight reformatting it’s now all over the place.

      • @UnityDevice@startrek.website
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        08 months ago

        It’s a size of paper with an aspect ratio of 1:√2, and the short edge that is 21cm long. The long edge will then be 21√2 = 29.7cm. The aspect ratio has the interesting property that it can be halved and doubled while remaining constant.

        This has been your ISO fact of the day.

          • ISO 7304-2:2008 defines a standard for cooking spaghetti. Subsection 3.9 “Completeness” closely resembles “al denté” but isn’t true al denté; as 3.9 states “no white core visible” when a noodle is inspected crosswise with a razor blade. Al denté phase is sensed via the teeth for texture differential of the inner and outer part of a spaghetti. No agreement has been reached by international consortium of Italian food preparers and dentists as to which tooth is to be used. Thus, the standard must be reviewed every 5 years by sensory analysis.

      • @fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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        08 months ago

        Right?

        Like just because we export all our media to you (because it’s better) and make fun of our stereotypes in that media, doesn’t mean that most of us are like that. Believe it or not we actually have cool stuff that’s uniquely American.

        And the reason you see Kraft singles is because we don’t want to share our BBQ with you.

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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          08 months ago

          export all our media to you (because it’s better)

          Lmao. Get back to me when you’ve got something like Taskmaster, Would I Lie To You, or QI.

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            You’re proving my point though? Those all look like C rate game shows that show up in the worst time slots here in the states.

            If you said Doctor who, like 15 years ago, then I’d give you a solid maybe.

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              08 months ago

              look like

              Yeah that’s an American problem. Preferring a glossy looking garbage over something non-glamorous but substantial.

              FYI I’m neither American nor European.

            • @yuriy@lemmy.world
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              08 months ago

              American here, you’re straight up wrong. We have no equivalent to their panel shows. Comparing them to game shows is like comparing open heart surgery to being stabbed.

          • @Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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            08 months ago

            We can’t do everything for you guys. We’re holding down the imperial system almost single handedly. Help a brother out.

          • @IronKrill@lemmy.ca
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            08 months ago

            America has the Squid Games reality show and Mr Beast. They’re kind of like Taskmaster if the point of Taskmaster was dangling life changing money in front of poor people.