I should have known better

[slemslempike]

I googled "16 inches in cm" to get a conversion for circular needles, and while the first hit that comes up is for a calculator, the next two are both about penis size. One the wikipedia entry on Human penis size, and the other is a question on answerbag from a 16 year old wondering if his penis is small. (No, it's not. Also I really doubt the guy who says he's seen a friend whose penis reaches "his collarbone" when erect. Unless I parsed it wrong and it comes up to the viewer's collarbone. Perhaps I've led a sheltered life, though.)

I am now slightly less enamoured with the snow because it's holding up my parcels of knitting stuff. And my boots gave up on being waterproof.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

My goodness! I've lived a sheltered life. I suppose that having a penis of those proportions might be useful in some circumstances - if you were stuck up a creek without a paddle, for instance - but it seems rather unwieldy for sex.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

One of my favourite ever things I read on a forum (which one is lost in the mists of time) was someone relating about a very petite female friend of hers who'd taken a guy home. On their mutual disrobing saw that he had the biggest penis she'd ever seen, porn and all, and just said "I have nowhere for you to put that".

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Reverting to the prosaic, how accurate do you need to be? 12 inches is very close indeed to 30 centimetres. One inch is two and a half centimetres for most practical purposes. That would make 16 inches about 40 cm - which sounds a very likely size for circular needles to be.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I should have said - google did also provide the answer! I love the automatic conversion tool on searches.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

I'm too lazy to do that! I've been shuttling between metric and Imperial since I was 7 so I've got all the key conversions in my head; as well as the ones I mentioned, a metre is 39 inches, 10 kilometres is 6 miles, a litre is 1 2/3 pints, a gallon is about 5 litres, a kilogram is 2.2 lb.

This meant that I was very close - and unique in the method I used - once in a psychology lecture when we were asked how many pints you could get into a box 1 ft by 1 ft by 1 ft. Our professor was looking to see whether we visualised pouring pints of milk or water into the box or remembering formulae we had been taught. I converted the box into cubic decimetres; one cubic decimetre of water is one litre (the definition of a litre); I made the calculation then converted back.

Exercise for the reader: try it yourself by either the visualisation method or my method. Preferably both - do the visualisation one first.