You have a point, but how am I supposed to know Michelle Obama is on the tall side? All the pictures I can picture with her, she's not really standing where there's any frame of reference to show she is indeed a tall person.grindcore wrote:Hilary is a lot of things but she sure ain't 5'11''.dhkendall wrote:WLT Michelle Obama on TALL $200, other than "5'11" and "lawyer"? Are we supposed to know how tall Ms. Obama is? (I said Clinton, since she was also a lawyer and the first lawyer first lady I could think of, but I"m sure there's a few more)
Will check the "I had the extra "the" in my response" box on the weekly poll - TBH, I didn't know the "the" was incorrect!
Oh, another beef I had with the TALL category, in "Jim Carrey's native Canada", we almost never, especially in casual conversation, use metric for personal measurements like height and weight. I am 6'3", 200 lbs and, like most of you reading this, I have no idea what that is in metric. (I remember back in the early 90s I was chatting online with a German girl when I mentioned my height when I said that I was tall, and she had no idea what that was in her mind, I had to go grab a metric tape measure, measure myself fresh, and report back.) Canada is an odd mix: officially metric, and measurements such as speed limits, gas purchases, and temperature and weather forecasts are metric (in km/h, litres (and 100km/l instead of mpg for fuel efficiency), and Celsius respectively), but in ordinary day to day use we use imperial for things like personal measurements such as height and weight. Official things seem to be in metric regardless, when my kids see the doctor their height and weight is taken in metric, and their vitals are measured in metric when they are born but announced to new parents in imperial. My driver's license says I am 191 cm. Cooking temperatures are usually in Fahrenheit and measurements are usually in imperial (1/4 cup, etc.), but I do see metric equivalents printed on the boxes of the food (and our stove has dual systems on the temperature dial, but the imperial is more prominent.) We also have metric measuring spoons, with their rough imperial equivalent written on them as well (we also have a pure imperial set, which is more commonly found here). Plus, I've noticed urban Canadians tend to use metric for distances in every day conversation, while rural ones tend to use Imperial (or time (as in "it's an hour away" instead of "it's 60 miles away")), perhaps because the grid roads are laid out in miles, before Metrication was introduced.
In short, if the US ever officially metricates I think in time the usage will wind up being like Canada's
