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For years, I told people that I was 5'11&3/4", while my brother said he was 6'2" and my father said he ruled over us at 6'3"

Then one day, we actually measured.  The results:

Me: 5'11&3/4"
Brother: 6'1&1/2"
Dad: 6'2&3/4"

Since that time, I've been 6 foot even, at the round up.

There's a point when it's a good idea to stop measuring ...

the big black hat helps

That and the boots will put me at 6'2" easy!

The Metric System?  Is that thing still around???

I know, it's pretty scarce.  It only exists in the countries in green on this map:

Yeah I’m pretty good at guessing people’s heights.  It helps me to calculate how many karate chops it’d take to kill ‘em.

When I was younger I used to pick out the cutest female in any given restaurant, airline, church, school room, office, whatever so I’d know which one to rescue in the event of an apocalypse to ensure the continuation of the species.

But I guess I’ve had my fill of women over the years.  I’m by no means misogynistic. I still find them fascinating and I like to speculate how well each one can make pie and what pie she’d make but I really wouldn’t want to be beholding to any more than the one I got.

So now in social situations I do the karate chop calculation so that I can back the fatal blow out of calculation.  I wouldn’t want to accidentally kill somebody just cause the shit jumped sideways.  

You know?

so, how many karate chops to kill an average height guy like Utee or I at 5'10"?

About 147’ give or take, I’d guess.

I’m no Chuck Norris.

I’m equally conversant.  As a scientist I think day to day in metric at work.  Having married into an Argentine family, our scales are in kg and we use either F or C equally for temperature.  But I live in a country that still uses the Imperial system that the UK has given up, and you can’t fight city hall.  When we cook we mostly use Imperial measures because that’s most of the recipes, etc.

So it doesn’t matter to me either way.  I’d rather OU win another MNC than have the USA catch up with the rest of the world on this system of measurement.  I can think equally in pounds or kg, and in km or miles, and so who cares.