system of a measurement

This is one of the things I´ll probably never get. I am used to the metric system. Which means I am 184 centimeters tall. I also weigh kilograms, not pounds. I drink litres, not gallons nor pints. And inches are reserved for computer screens and drainpipes.

So if a girl tells me, she is 5'5" tall I don´t get it at all, she may be somewhere between a midget and a giant.

Usually I get over this handicap by stacking my old computer screens. I know, this one was a 15" screen, the others were 17", 19" and so on... So with plenty of screens and some easy math I am able to tell whether said girl is tall or not.
Quite interesting for the neighbourhood to watch the old nerd stacking screens again.

But recently, German law (and Austria always imitates what Germans start, even if it´s complete nonsense) decided, that computer screen manufacturers and sellers have to declare the screen width in centimeters.

So this is the utter madness how the world of normally grown people will end. You may be big as King Kong standing on Godzillas shoulders, I´ll never find out.