• GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      There’s an old joke about that to piss off Texans. If Alaska was split in half, Texas would be the third largest state.

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    2 months ago

    Of course all the needlessly, wastefully large sizes are named after American states.

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      2 months ago

      In metric land we simply state the size of the mattress. I’ve got a 160cm wide and 220cm long bed, for example.

      Length is typically 200cm, but sometimes I encounter 190cm beds in hotels (which are too short for me, as I’m 1,92m tall). 220cm beds are extra long (and mine was 200x220 before I cut the aluminum profiles to reduce it to 160x220 after I divorced)

      Note how we also measure humans in meters and beds in centimeters, but it’s just a matter of a decimal point/comma.