Like most of your standards. No-one knows why, but it's obviously advantageous to defend it religiously as "better than everyone else"

lukas099 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> it's obviously advantageous to defend it religiously as "better than everyone else

Or laugh at ourselves about it, which is what we normally do.

MBCook 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

At a certain point things get so engrained the cost to switch would be huge and the benefits don’t (seem to) outweigh it.

I think switching to metric would make far more sense than this.

	▲	XorNot an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know in terms of saved paper because the printer has somehow switched to Letter again I think an argument could be made...

janderson215 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Here here! I will walk 500 km for this.

cubefox 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was just chosen earlier.

spiderice an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm sorry our paper size offends you. Had we have known it would cause such an inferiority complex we never would have done it.