I'm 5'15" in this case
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You understand there are some major benefits to the English system of measurement, right?
The metric system isn’t anchored to practical physical reality. The jump from centimeter to decimeter is too small to be practically useful, and the jump from decimeter to meter is too large to be practically useful. There’s a lot of stuff in physical reality that’s larger than cm/dm scale but smaller than meter scale. The metric system has no easy way of representing that.
Inch = roughly the distance from the tip of my thumb to the first knuckle
Foot = roughly the length of my foot
Yard = roughly the distance of a full stride
I had to double check what a decimeter is because I've never heard of anyone using that, everyone uses either centimeters or meters and that works just fine. I don't know how you think there's a problem for something "larger than cm/dm scale but smaller than meter scale" when people just say things like 58 centimeters, or 9.45 meters, etc.