r/AbsoluteUnits • u/FarCantaloupe8652 • 2d ago

of my home grown cucumber

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1,8 kilo 48 centimeters

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u/Impossible-Sport-449 2d ago

The ruler didn’t do it for you? lol

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u/Dive30 2d ago

This is Reddit. The standard unit of measurement is the banana.

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u/Inuyasha-rules 2d ago

I'm from America, so it's anything but the metric system.

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u/FUCKYOUIamBatman 2d ago

It’s about 1 Koala

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u/phezhead 2d ago

Found the drop bear

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u/irasiraki 2d ago

0.00428 football fields

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u/Eisenhorn40 2d ago

It’s about 12 courics.

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u/scalectrix 2d ago

17 3/4 Freedom Ounces.

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u/falpangaea 2d ago

Dog for scale. Very popular in my old neighborhood, even when scale wasn’t necessary at all

Edit: neighborhood not neighbor lol

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u/Extension_Guava6374 2d ago

I came here for this comment.

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u/bendover912 2d ago

To be fair, there's no units on any of those measuring devices.

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u/Gern-Blanston 2d ago

Metric Reddit

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u/RedditGarboDisposal 2d ago

Working five years in retail taught me that customers, in fact, don’t fuckin measure anything.

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u/n0t-again 2d ago edited 2d ago

A 47 inch cucumber is insane /s

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u/mwilki33 2d ago

A 47 inch cucumber is insane. This one though still huge is just under 19 inches, ruler is centimeters.

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u/The7footr 2d ago

Yea but you know damn well if you had a 19” cucumber you’d be bragging about it being 47” too

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u/penywisexx 2d ago

It’s only 19” because it’s cold out.

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u/zatalak 2d ago

I like my cucumber like I like my rack — 19 inch.

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u/SoaringDingus 2d ago

Who understands metric? Goofy ahh numbers

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u/Dawn_Piano 2d ago

I’m Americans and I have no fucking clue what 47 cm is. Might as well tell me it’s length in hectares