• littletranspunk@lemmus.org
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    18 hours ago

    Not to mention the new flagpoles at the white House, both measuring 88 feet.

    Yes, it sounds like it’s not real, but you’ll find it easy in a search

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      18 hours ago

      I believe it could be true, but why would anyone bother. No one’s measuring the things. They could just say they were. I mean who’s going to try to prove how many feet below the surface they are buried. So if the flag pole is 80ft above the surface and 10% below like a standard bury, it’s 88ft. Don’t understand why you would make them taller than the white house though.

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          17 hours ago

          Nah I get it, would have bothered me if I re-read what I wrote. 8.8. I just meant no one is going to measure above or below and such. The old shifty decimal deci system make it easy math thing haha.

          Side note there was a large pole like that in front of the office building I worked at. Huge metal pole. The flag was taken down before a hurricane, the hole thing came down anyways. Bent and snapped. To be fair the entire building was fucked as well. Made the front page of the newspapers in LA. Never a good thing to hear on the east coast