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The politically correct term is 5'12" -1"
I failed to offer an option where you're just bad at converting out of the metric system, though. As a fan of measurement systems that aren't stupid, I feel this omission deeply.
I am literally a dual citizen that uses both. You can check my post history and see me pointing out that I find it funny 5'11" is 180 cm and this is the cut-off in countries using the metric system, implying women secretly just like round numbers rather than height.
Come to Germany.
But nah man you're right. Preposterous to think I might live somewhere with a higher average height. I'm clearly lying about all of this. Because reasons.
"Damn, reading this note, I forgot how nice of a person she was. I can't help but read it and wonder why I ever broke up with her in the first place."
"You found out she was a Nazi."
"Oh right. I always wondered why she performed the pledge of allegiance with that different hand gesture, but always just assumed it was a Wisconsin thing. Shame about her being a Nazi."
Or her hand was cramping.
Your idea probably better storytelling than mine, though...
One gender isn't worse than the other, in my experience.
I'm 6'0" and I have had women who blatantly must be 6'3" at a minimum try to tell me they're 6'0" and I must have gone through years of my life actually being 5'9" or some shit without knowing it lol.
Tall women and short men seem to be prone to being self-conscious, and the worst of it is when one of them has to insist to you that you're wrong about your height so that theirs remains accurate in their head.
People just need to learn to not give a shit, and IMO the giveaway of someone lying about their height is when they insist upon it. The only people to ever challenge my height are always exactly the people that want to be 6'0" themselves.
Yes, now how many people use this exact system, and how many of them got it wrong when they measured way back in their teens, or willingly got it wrong because they want to be taller/shorter?
I'm 6'. The amount of times I've had people argue with me I'm not 6'0" is absolutely ridiculous. The reason...? My guess is I'm unfortunate to be exactly at that "magic height" that men want to be (and women don't, I've come to discover) so shorter guys (and much more commonly, to my surprise, taller girls) want to insist I can't possibly be 6' because they are 6'.
Any time I happen to come across someone who more casually claims to be 6', lo and behold, worst case scenario, one of us is just like an inch or less off from the other, probably as a result of people rounding to an exact inch instead of involving centimeters.
This system fails for anyone who is 6', because we are the exact people that get grabbed and argued with when our standard rains on somebody's parade and they need to insist to us we're wrong.
I have genuinely not measured my height since I was in my teens and I cannot tell you how many times I've had someone else argue with me about what height we actually were.
Usually it's men shorter than me who want to insist they're 6'0", or more commonly, taller women who want to insist they're 6'0" and not 6'4" or whatever they are. (from my perspective) And never has it interested me enough to actually go and measure again.
Isn't the cut-off in countries that use cm typically 180, which is 5'11"?
Girls don't like a specific height, they just like round numbers.
"GIGACHADS HATE HIM! 5'11" guys can become attractive again with this one easy trick! "
I'm in Europe and occasionally hear the complaint we're not getting summer this year.
Motherfucker look around. Thank your lucky fucking stars we're not getting summer and that Europe is (currently) the only region on earth actually getting colder. The rest of the planet is currently engaging in an experiment to see how high they can get before the wet bulb effect kicks in.
A bit more insight:
The defense was probably focused on avoiding a murder charge at all costs, which is automatic life in prison.
In this particular case, the only definition of murder that could apply by German law is "for profit," AKA, she killed the baby to advance/protect her career.
The defense on the other hand likely focused on arguing this was a spontaneous act, and if it's spontaneous, that means it wasn't planned and that there was zero careful thought about things like profit.
So basically, defense is likely trying to say "she's not greedy and heartless, she just lost her damned marbles for a moment," and somehow this worked. It might seem like they had no plan, but the plan itself might've been to just establish that she had not planned this behavior and that not even the defense attorneys themselves nor the defendant herself can make sense of her own actions.
That's not to say the sentence seems justified. What gets me is they caught her in a lie about not knowing she was pregnant (her internet search history suggests otherwise) and that they also got zero explanation for how the baby wound up out the window. Likewise, while manslaughter isn't an automatic life sentence like murder is, it is open to extremely long sentences, including life sentences.
The minimum is 5, so they somehow looked at everything and decided that 2.5 years above the minimum sentence is the best decision. Makes you wonder if she had friends in high places or money to line some pockets.
What kills me:
1) She was charged with manslaughter, which is a minimum of 5 years in Germany. A murder charge, which the prosecutors were trying for, would've been a lifelong sentence.
2) The defendant claimed she didn't know she was pregnant and was in shock when she had it. Despite this defense, I was unable to find any sources that ever actually showed the defense justifying how the fuck the baby got out the window.
To play devil's advocate, IF there were some good defense made, I could understand the lower charge simply because manslaughter vs. murder is an entirely different beast in Germany, so if they can get it down to manslaughter, that will accomplish a lot. Not saying the lower charge would be justified, but saying in that circumstance, I could see the judges feeling like their hands are tied.
....But how on earth they managed that is beyond me. There is zero defense for how the baby ended up how the window, and there's internet search history shattering her claims she didn't know she was pregnant. My best guess is that it all boils down to it being an alleged spontaneous act (Germany will argue the act of plotting and planning a murder showcases murder and should be treated more seriously), and/or that we've become so god damned soft and ineffective that simply spewing out "I don't recall" like a broken record is now a cheat code to get away with anything.
That's some eccentric behavior
Wiggly Worm and Dragon Bosses returns for the DLC: audible groaning
Boat guy is back: LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO
I "watched it" (couldn't make it to the end) because I like bad movies and media. It's fun to watch things so mind-numbingly bad that you can't wrap your head around how it was made or how anyone greenlit it. I've tried (and failed) for a week now to try and find the origins and makers of that "the New Norm Show" on Twitter, for example, because it's just so bad that I both wanna know the release date and who on earth made it. Would 100% watch to see the trainwreck lol. I'm sadly not convinced it's a real show because I just can't find any information on it, nor have any of the (alleged) involved parties commented to provide more info.
But I digress:
Tried to watch Velma, and yeah, it's really bad. Both Velma and High Guardian Spice suffered from the problem that they often weren't (always) cringe or living in their own bubble or unfunny or whatever, but instead they were just boring. Nothing was happening, the plots made no sense, or it was a tedious rehearsal of the same song-and-dance each time, with no interesting twists or surprises.
There is no way to spin Velma into being a good show because there's just so many moments that make no sense and are devoid of any action or meaningful dialog. Even as someone specifically watching to see it be bad, it failed at that. Yes, it was bad, but it was the boring bad, not the laughable bad.
NCR is the most interesting faction to support, because the best thing you can do for the NCR is not support the NCR.
It's riddled with corruption, and if you support them, none of that is going to change. Kimball and Oliver will stay in charge, they will learn "expanding and taking over territory is a good idea!" and the exact wrong people such as Moore get promoted.
I think Indy/House best highlights why you shouldn't support the NCR, because then Hanlon goes back, becomes a successful politician and makes a career out of calling out the leadership's failures, with the 2nd Battle of Hoover Dam serving as phenomenal evidence, precisely because they removed Hanlon from his power position and failed horribly.
The NCR is a democracy, but it's very corrupt during the events of the game. The best way to save it is to simply let it fall flat on it's face so that it can learn everything it's doing right now just simply isn't working.
It's fucking weird, isn't it?
It's like that specific sub is just a club of a group of friends that desperately wants to suck each other off in full view of the public eye. The mods make sure the same people always get promoted, and those same people bot upvotes to make themselves seem more liked than they actually are.
Like wtf why do you guys need a public subreddit? Just go be good supportive friends of each other in private. Lying to themselves instead with the whole charade is just warped and weird, and it's little surprise so many of them absolutely crumble and flip out in the face of actual criticism.
Like seriously, in settings like fallout even the "good guy" faction always has some fucked up flaw or something
And with the NCR in particular, if you support them, you are supporting their WORST tendencies.
They will learn that being imperialist, corrupt warhawks is the way to go, because you've rewarded them for it. If you like the NCR, the best thing you can do for the NCR is...not support the NCR.
The mod said I glorify r##e by not hating the Legion.
I have to wonder how people like this end up loving New Vegas to the point they want to mod a subreddit for it.
To me, the entire point of the game is it's a thought experiment. It highlights strengths and weaknesses of autocracy, capitalism, anarchy and yes, democracy. The entire point is to look at them all and give them all a fair shake so that you can better understand them, even if you ultimately decide to support someone else. After all, even if you hate one of these, understanding them better is how you best combat them.
Gotta be honest, every time I meet someone that just dismisses the Legion with rabid vitriol, never looked at another faction besides the NCR because "hurrdurr democracy good," and clearly never tried to examine the Legion beyond "SLAVERY BAD," for me that's just a sign I'm talking to someone that isn't very intelligent. The point isn't that you gotta support the Legion (most won't choose them as their best choice to rule the Mojave, myself included) or even that having the end decision of supporting the NCR is bad, (it's not. Very flawed, but a perfectly valid choice for a person to make) but if your thought process is to dismiss entire factions based on first impressions and black-and-white thinking of "DEMOCRACY GOOD, DICTATOR BAD," then yeah, you might be kind of a dumbass lol.
We even have an example of this dynamic in history: Pedro II was Brazil's last monarch and he led Brazil into it's golden age. Was ousted under the pretense of "nah bro we need to install democracy now," and Brazil has been worse ever since. Yes, democracy is still great, but what was going on here is that Pedro (and his daughter) abolished slavery, so all the rich coffee farmer barons wanted him gone and decided to use a call to democracy as their trojan horse with which to sell the regime change. (which btw, was unpopular, but Pedro himself was tired and wanted to step down, unfortunately) Brazil has been a corrupt hellhole ever since, and that dictator was the greatest leader it's ever had. Someone who blindly wanted him gone in the name of democracy would've burned Brazil much sooner. The world is not all black-and-white.
New Vegas subreddit but you're only allowed to be a milquetoast NCR supporter.
Why don't the mods understand that bear bull bear flag divide courier bear bull war bear flag old world bull?
My ban was some comic claiming that people hate the Velma show because they're racist.
I responded and said it's because all the Velma show is, is a bunch of terrible writers basically buying a beloved IP and selling a show about their characters (aka not the actual Scooby Doo squad) under the guise of being the Scooby Doo gang to promote viewership they otherwise wouldn't get if they were expected to stand on their own two feet based off their original ideas alone.
It's basically like an axe murderer just murdered beloved characters and started wearing their skin, thinking it'll make people like them as much as they liked those beloved characters. Instead, we all react with disgust and horror because they're ruining something we love just to springboard their show/careers off a famous, established name.
Banned for racism lol.
When I asked where I was racist, they just quoted my entire post and then blocked me so I couldn't respond.
I've noticed this too! The taller countries seem much less likely to care.
Maybe seeing plenty of supply of height means it starts to lose value...? Or it's such a given that they simply mention it less...? Hell if I know.
Fact: Most girls can't tell difference between a 5'10 and 6
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