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wait, do they actually use their feet to measure things?
I've seen it done. Not for precision, but for rough estimates, I've seen someone toe-heel their way across a job site. Honestly, that and the fact that an inch is usually pretty close to the length of a finger knuckle are really the biggest redeeming qualities of the imperial system in terms of making quick length guesstimates
no I highly doubt anyone does that but that's what the meme here implies as a funny haha
Nah I've definitely done a quick heel-toe walk across an area to get a ballpark of distance. Along with basically any other body part I could reasonably use to measure something when I don't have a tape measure on me at that moment.
I've also previously measured and I know that for example my bare foot is about 11 inches long heel to toe and that my shoe makes it about 12. I could do exactly the same thing with metric.