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[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 138 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Claims to be in the American wilderness

uses Metric

[–] schmidtster@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Some Americans do see sense.

[–] dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

South Americans.

Every red white and blue blooded American uses the foot!

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well you gotta use both feet if you're going hiking

[–] dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

JUST ONE FOOT YOU COMMIE

[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Perhaps lost some.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unlike with longer distances and temperature, Americans don't strictly use imperial for shorter distances (m, cm, mm). It's on all of the signs and stuff, but we learn metric in school as well as how to convert to and from. In university-level physics classes, they almost solely use metric. So as an American myself, I didn't bat an eye at him using meters. But if they said that it was 30C outside...

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It helps that meters and yards are very similar in size. Of course they drift as the distances get larger but in my mind 300m is a pretty reasonable thing to visualize. Just a tad larger than 300yd—about 3 football fields (Inb4 stereotype)

Km though? I still struggle to compare it to a mile. When someone says "50km" my mind has a hard time imperializing it. What's that, like 35 miles?

Maybe memorizing how the km lines up with the mi on my car speedometer would help.

[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

50km is about 30 miles. An easy way to remember if you're into fast cars is 0-60mph =~ 0-100kph

[–] azulavoir@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

think fibonacci sequence and you're in good shape

34 comes before 55, then 3 comes before 5, so 50 km is (55-5) km = (34-3) mi = 31. It works shockingly well

[–] virku@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is so incredibly much complicated to me than just multiplying or dividing by 1.6.

And also 55 km is 34 miles, not 31. I had to run it through a converter tool just to be sure.

Edit: I reread your comment. The goal was 50 kilometers. Then the math checks out. Sorry!

[–] azulavoir@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

just multiplying or dividing by 1.6 is about as accurate as my strategy in the other direction - the real value is almost exactly between them.

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[–] S410@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Personally know several metric nuts who insist on using metric in their day-to-day life.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 years ago

Well, a metric nut would be screwed trying to go imperial...

[–] Setarkus@feddit.de 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Metric nut" sounds like there's a measurement to their insanity in the metric system

[–] LostXOR@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For the Americans: that's 0.00005965 furlongs.

[–] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

also called M12-nut

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

I find metric nuts and bolts are much easier to acquire cheaply

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 6 points 2 years ago

On holiday?

[–] TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

How many inches is that?

[–] Feirdro@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A big chunk (a majority?) of the North American wilderness is in countries that use metric.

[–] schmidtster@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No Canadian would go into the wilderness and say they went into the American wilderness…

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe they went to Detroit?

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 117 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Family has never walked 300m

American

[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I swear yal post/upvote the most normie greentexts. Where's the crazy off the wall shit?

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago
[–] Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The crazy ones I've posted get downvoted to hell. People seem to equate laughing at Anon with supporting whatever craziness Anon has written.

[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lemmy has no chill lol. We might even be more prudish than Reddit. My guess is our demographic skews older so people here don't care for "dank" content as much.

[–] SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.org 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Almost ever community is way too serious. They need to remove the stick from their ass.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, lemmy is a strange audience

[–] stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like a failure to set good expectations. Sure there are times people just don't listen, but if everyone else is saying this kind of thing, maybe there's a common factor...

[–] amio@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Maybe. On the other hand, 300m takes about 3-4 minutes, so you'd have to wonder about what the expectations were.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The best way to find people to go on hikes with is on hikes

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Also good way to find psychopaths

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[–] Irishred88@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm fat and lazy and still love hiking. I'd pull on my hiking boots and join in a heartbeat.

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[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 years ago

Annon's family is pathetic.

[–] Fleur__@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Couldn't you have just asked beforehand though.

[–] calypsopub@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmy hiking club when?

I would join a 4chan hiking club too but out of sheer curiosity alone.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Wta plug. Find one for your area.

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hate hiking. I just don't get it, it's boring

[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Agreed. I respect nature and it's beauty but I've never understood hiking.

Best I was every personally motivated to do was climb to The old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. 5km round trip. Worth it, but cold, raining and very windy the whole.steep-ass way up and down. My wife went 100m up with me and said "Fuck this" and turned around so I ended up doing it alone.

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