Height-Weight-Nationality Poll

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  1. communism

    communism poof

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    vegetarian small son, vegans are fags
     
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  2. complete_

    complete_ lamer

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    my body fat is 5.3%. im a bodybuilder man
     
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  3. Mahtipakarat

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    182cm 108kg winland.
    Damn you, ice cream! Come to my mouth! How dare you disobey me!
     
    Mahtipakarat, Oct 21, 2011
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  4. Chris0132'

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    30 BMI fuck yeah I'm winning.
     
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  5. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    what, BMI is mass per square meter? that sounds quite radom - why isnt it per cubic meter?

    if i find time today i gonna read up on this.
     
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    flasche, Oct 21, 2011
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  6. Chris0132'

    Chris0132' Developer

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    Because as far as I'm aware, it has absolutely no basis whatsoever in biology, it's an arbitrary statistical measurement invented by a statistician for some reason about a hundred years ago.

    As to why it's used as a measure of health? Fuck only knows.
     
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  7. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    so the BMI basically is a pseudoscientific excuse for calling someone fat and sell them overpriced pseudoscientific diets ...

    btw, according to wiki, the square of your height is about the surface area of your body.
     
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  8. Mahtipakarat

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    Basically this. On funland they also use it on like life insurances and such. I remember a case where a finnish body builder wanted to get an life insurance, but they wouldn't sell him one because according to his body mass index he was overweight (muscle weighs more than fat and so on), so there was a small shitstorm about that. Silly thing is that BMI is still used as a definite fact.
     
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  9. Devourawr

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    187, 91kg, Australian

    Also, seeing as how the average for humans is far shorter than what we're seeing here, gamers are either unnaturally tall or suffer from the penis size problem.
     
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  10. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    its our genes of awesome :D
     
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  11. Chris0132'

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    "Penis size problem"?
     
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  12. Mahtipakarat

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    Or most gamers come from countries that have money for food AND computers?
     
    Mahtipakarat, Oct 21, 2011
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  13. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    You added waist size but I have no idea how that works in metric countries. We do it in inches in the UK, and of course they'll do that in the US, but idk how it works in European countries, if it's metric or if they still use imperial.
     
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  14. Chris0132'

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    Europe never used imperial.
     
    Chris0132', Oct 21, 2011
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  15. ImSpartacus

    ImSpartacus nerf spec plz

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    Use cm, it's presented in the following intervals, but a direct inch=>cm conversion is fine:
    {72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100, 104, 108, 114, 120, 126, 132, ...}
     
    ImSpartacus, Oct 21, 2011
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  16. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    The occasional niche thing still uses imperial stuff, so I just wondered if this was one of them. That's what I heard anyway, I doubt I could name then. Also, is there a standardised Beer size in Europe? Because a large or a small could be different in each pub, and no-one will say "Can I have half a litre/500ml of Beer?". The "Pint" does have a use there, it's the same in every pub.
     
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  17. flasche

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    i think 0.33 and 0.5liters are the most common ones and in most countries ive been they understand "half a liter".
    but you get 0.2, 0.25 and 1l+ too, depending on region ...

    given your waiter is able to do the simplest unit conversions you should be able to get 500ml aswell, but i think the chance is quite high that you blow his/her mind, at least in the average "pub" here in austria :P
     
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  18. ImSpartacus

    ImSpartacus nerf spec plz

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    I thought the metric system was supposed to be easier...
     
    ImSpartacus, Oct 21, 2011
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  19. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    Metric system is easier 90% of the time but for Alcohol, the Pint still reigns supreme.
     
    Trickster, Oct 21, 2011
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  20. ImSpartacus

    ImSpartacus nerf spec plz

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    Ok, then give me your waist size in your lovely metric system.
     
    ImSpartacus, Oct 21, 2011
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