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Bad experience buying Chinese tape measures on EBay

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Cas77 wrote: Chinese men calling 10 inches a foot...Chinese women should be outraged for being lied to all this time.
(Trying to be) Funny guy obviously didn't read the post above his.
joeyjoejoe wrote: Chinese inch is 32mm. Chinese foot is 10 Chinese inches 32mm * 10 = 320mm
Imperial inch is 25.4mm. Imperial foot is 12 Imperial inches 25.4mm * 12 = 304.8mm
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I'm hoping it's not a case of 10 inches to a foot and 12 toes to two feet.

Shoe sizes will need to be reassesed as well.
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you could have just gone to dollarama, spent less, got it faster and saved yourself the aggravation
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joeyjoejoe wrote: This thread is jokes... but to be honest, I wouldn't have known about the 10 inches in a Chinese foot.
At first I was gonna joke about "Metric Imperial" system....didn't know about different measurements
I mean all the books in school show you old school "hands" to measure a horse etc
I should take note of this next time I'm in pmall!
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trilinearmipmap wrote: Not where I live - we don't all live in a big city. If there were one locally, I would have bought it.
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the best part about this thread is the fact that OP stops responding after his mistake is pointed out.

This wins for my thread of the year!

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