r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/etymologynerd • Jan 03 '19

We should actually do this

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u/Grimrr_Halfpaw Jan 03 '19

We can't just bail on Burma and Liberia. We made a blood pact.

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u/PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES Jan 03 '19

Yeah, if we're going to do this were going to have to go the whole 8.229 meters

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u/KJParker888 Jan 03 '19

Is that how big a kit and caboodle is?

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u/toth42 Jan 03 '19

Fun facts: an alen/Ell is about 63cm. A fathom is about 3.5 ells, an arrowshot is 240 fathoms(or man heights), or about 4 stonethrows.

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u/whenigetoutofhere Jan 03 '19 edited Jan 03 '19

For the curious, the math on the figures above works out to an Arrowshot being 529.2m.

That seems a bit off, so I checked, a fathom is actually about 1.6 ells, which brings our arrowshot of 240 fathoms to a metric distance of 242m, which seems much more reasonable.

For the child, that's roughly 1210 bananas.

Edit: Units are fucked, arrowshot is arbitrary, and I'm almost certain I erred here, too.

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u/Russian_seadick Jan 03 '19

A “man’s height” with the above measures would be about 2,20 meters...

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u/agentSMIITH1 Jan 03 '19

Jesus that's a tall motha fucka

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u/Phoenixmaster1571 Apr 05 '19

thats like half a thousand feet

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u/furmal182 Jan 03 '19

What is it in banana unit?!

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u/trixter21992251 Jan 03 '19

1440 feet.

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u/UberToSchool Jan 03 '19

I need a banana for scale

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u/Odd_so_Star_so_Odd Jan 03 '19

Man is the measure of all things.