PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE: Use an INTERNATIONAL SCALE when posting images for ID!!!

[JohnBrewer]

Everyone please use an internationally recognised scale in your images. Coins aren’t good enough. How big is s rupee, or a farthing? I dunno. 

 

 

Of course a marmite jar is the same size worldwide  Vegimite is NOT internationally recognised. I hope you’re taking notes @Jesuslover340 

[thelivingdead531]

Darn, I threw out my jar of Marmite. There goes my scale reference. 

[Heteromorph]

Great post. This is something that many people forget about. And hands also don’t work. How do we know whether you have tiny hands or if you’re Bigfoot? 

[Kane]

A few other possible items : 

 

 

[Bullsnake]

36 minutes ago, JohnBrewer said:

Vegimite is NOT internationally recognised.

How about Marmite soldiers?

[Tidgy's Dad]

I agree. 

Serious point. 

I have no idea how big any American coins are. 

I understand British currency has changed size since my day.

Please be kind and post your fossils compared to something that Moroccans would be familiar with.

[SailingAlongToo]

On 3/10/2018 at 6:19 PM, JohnBrewer said:

Everyone please use an internationally recognised scale in your images. Coins aren’t good enough. How big is s rupee, or a farthing? I dunno. 

 

 

Of course a marmite jar is the same size worldwide  Vegimite is NOT internationally recognised. I hope you’re taking notes @Jesuslover340 

I know how to solve this problem. @aerogrower makes and sells these really awesome scale cubes in inch and 2 centimeter versions. 

[Bullsnake]

On 3/10/2018 at 8:19 PM, Tidgy's Dad said:

I agree. 

Serious point. 

I have no idea how big any American coins are. 

I understand British currency has changed size since my day.

Please be kind and post your fossils compared to something that Moroccans would be familiar with.

 

Ahh, Coca-Cola and cigarettes?

[caldigger]

On 3/10/2018 at 8:19 PM, Tidgy's Dad said:

I agree. 

Serious point. 

I have no idea how big any American coins are. 

I understand British currency has changed size since my day.

Please be kind and post your fossils compared to something that Moroccans would be familiar with.

Because everybody knows how big a jockey Polar Bear is.

[Nimravis]

I was going to use a Giordanos Deep Dish Cheese Pizza, but I forgot that most of you have never had the best pizza in the world- Yum.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 3/10/2018 at 8:34 PM, Nimravis said:

I was going to use a Giordanos Deep Dish Cheese Pizza, but I forgot that most of you have never had the best pizza in the world- Yum.

No idea. 

Is that 1 inch thick or 27?

[Troodon]

Thanks John now I know what is Marmite 

[Nimravis]

Just now, Tidgy's Dad said:

No idea. 

Is that 1 inch thick or 27?

You will have to eat one to find out. 

[Tidgy's Dad]

[Kane]

3 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

No idea. 

Is that 1 inch thick or 27?

Not that this helps much, but one NY pizza is 1/27th the thickness of a Chicago pizza. 

[Tidgy's Dad]

2 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

You will have to eat one to find out. 

I think it may be a bit cold by the time the delivery guy arrives. 

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 3/10/2018 at 8:40 PM, Kane said:

Not that this helps much, but one NY pizza is 1/27th the thickness of a Chicago pizza. 

Yes, that's perfectly clear. 

[piranha]

2 hours ago, JohnBrewer said:

Everyone please use an internationally recognised scale in your images.

 

 

Equally important, when provided, please remember to read the scale!   

 

[Wrangellian]

On 3/10/2018 at 8:34 PM, Nimravis said:

I was going to use a Giordanos Deep Dish Cheese Pizza, but I forgot that most of you have never had the best pizza in the world- Yum.

 

They put the sauce on top of the cheese??  Bizarre...

[caldigger]

2 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

They put the sauce on top of the cheese??  Bizarre...

You'll be so busy trying to gather up the cheese so you can actually eat the slice, you wont even notice the sauce position.

It gives the term "cheese pizza" a whole new meaning.

But gaud, does that picture ever make me hungry! Yum!!!

[Miocene_Mason]

I feel like at some point a show off will use a seven inch long meg as a scale....

@6ix uses a scale dog which I think works great

[Jesuslover340]

On 3/10/2018 at 6:19 PM, JohnBrewer said:

Everyone please use an internationally recognised scale in your images. Coins aren’t good enough. How big is s rupee, or a farthing? I dunno. 

 

 

Of course a marmite jar is the same size worldwide  Vegimite is NOT internationally recognised. I hope you’re taking notes @Jesuslover340 

Awwww, come on! That's discriminatory!

[-Andy-]

How about this? I call it the Sarcosuchus scale. You would know the size of fossils just by placing a Sarcosuchus tooth next to it! Observe.

 

 

[siteseer]

On 3/10/2018 at 6:19 PM, JohnBrewer said:

Everyone please use an internationally recognised scale in your images. Coins aren’t good enough. How big is s rupee, or a farthing? I dunno. 

 

 

Of course a marmite jar is the same size worldwide  Vegimite is NOT internationally recognised. I hope you’re taking notes @Jesuslover340 

 

I thought a "marmite" was a kind of rodent so I was, uh, confused by that photo.  I would think we could still use one of those dinosaur coins we found in cereal boxes back in the 70's or 80's.  Surely, everyone here has at least one of those.

 

 

[Sagebrush Steve]

Or you could print out and use this TFF logo ruler and advertise the forum with every photo.  Be sure when you print the PDF file that you set the printer driver to print with no scaling so the scales come out correctly.

 

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