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Quite. I suspect the narrator might have confused grapefruit with satsuma - easy to do if you ignore size and colour ... morphology and a few other things but

Quite. I suspect the narrator might have confused grapefruit with satsuma - easy to do if you ignore size and colour ... morphology and a few other things but all citrus so all good. Much better to stick with silly old normal and sensible measurements. This thing is roughly 0.9 linguine across - https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver... Standards are important, that's why we have so many of them.

bimguy 3y ago
Hahaha. I've never seen this standards page before. I work in Australia's building industry so I find this page particularly enjoyable. Thank you for sharing the page and your sharp wit with me.
- gerdesj 3y ago
  Those "standards" were the result of long forum threads back in the day. Some of the discussions are hilarious. Did you spot the Other units are links, eg: https://www.theregister.com/2016/10/25/oz_trams_equivalent_to_30_skateboarding_rhinos/ https://www.theregister.com/2016/10/25/oz_trams_equivalent_t... Searching the Register for other keywords should yield some gems.