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[–] 122 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why make it a card then? If it's meant to be stored as a document then it should be the size of an envelope, or a standard A4 sheet.

I keep mine attached to the envelope sized paper it came on. But it shouldn't be a card shape, that encourages people to carry it. My grandpa always carried his.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Don't mention A4 paper, it scares the Americans. If any of them could read, they would be very afraid right now.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This week on “Things Non-Americans Think Americans Don’t Know About!”

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Right?

    Like just because we export all our media to you (because it's better) and make fun of our stereotypes in that media, doesn't mean that most of us are like that. Believe it or not we actually have cool stuff that's uniquely American.

    And the reason you see Kraft singles is because we don't want to share our BBQ with you.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    export all our media to you (because it's better)

    Lmao. Get back to me when you've got something like Taskmaster, Would I Lie To You, or QI.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    America has the Squid Games reality show and Mr Beast. They're kind of like Taskmaster if the point of Taskmaster was dangling life changing money in front of poor people.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    You're proving my point though? Those all look like C rate game shows that show up in the worst time slots here in the states.

    If you said Doctor who, like 15 years ago, then I'd give you a solid maybe.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    look like

    Yeah that's an American problem. Preferring a glossy looking garbage over something non-glamorous but substantial.

    FYI I'm neither American nor European.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Tell me what country you're from, then, so I can look up how to roast it in the book of Places No One Gives a Shit About.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Hey now, I can read...but, what's this A4 paper you speak of?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    8/11.5

    Not sure if a joke or an actual paper size

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Actually a size. More commonly referred to as "letter" sized. It's 8x11.5 inches, which is pretty close to A4, but it'll confuse printers if you mix the 2 up.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    but it’ll confuse printers if you mix the 2 up.

    So far all printers I've seen can switch between both. The real problem is your Writer/Word document, because after the slight reformatting it's now all over the place.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's a size of paper with an aspect ratio of 1:√2, and the short edge that is 21cm long. The long edge will then be 21√2 = 29.7cm. The aspect ratio has the interesting property that it can be halved and doubled while remaining constant.

    This has been your ISO fact of the day.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • ISO 7304-2:2008 defines a standard for cooking spaghetti. Subsection 3.9 "Completeness" closely resembles "al denté" but isn't true al denté; as 3.9 states "no white core visible" when a noodle is inspected crosswise with a razor blade. Al denté phase is sensed via the teeth for texture differential of the inner and outer part of a spaghetti. No agreement has been reached by international consortium of Italian food preparers and dentists as to which tooth is to be used. Thus, the standard must be reviewed every 5 years by sensory analysis.

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