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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

Carlos looks like a cool guy. We should use Carlos in more measurements.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Which one is which?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Those are some nice slip-ons

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

But how many bananas tall is Carlos?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Looks about two and hald freedom eagles tall

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I really hope Carlos is getting paid to work there. Bet he has abs of steel, though! Dudes rockin' washboard abs but is far too modest to show them off.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You can literally see his beer belly, what are you on about.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Carlos is a master of deception!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Lmao. Fair enough xD

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago) (1 children)

Idk... is Carlos an SI-compatible unit? Because if not, this could be any size. Maybe he is a dwarf, maybe a giant. It could be anything! /j

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Carlos is 5 meters.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

That ain't nothin on Great A'Tuin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Of course you don't get giant turtles that small

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Ssh, you'll give the flat-earthers ideas!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

Thank you Carlos, very cool

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Okay but is Carlos standing on a platform with a wall behind him, or is Carlos planking on a platform with the floor behind him?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Pretty sure he's just been hung vertically. For we know he's a stuffed exhibit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

He's just lying on a box sticking his legs out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

I came to ask if we were witnessing the plank master at work. Glad I wasn't the only one.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

God, the way my laugh echoed in this house.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Carlos can melt steel beams.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

If your axe melts, maybe you're using the wrong metal

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

And my dick!

Edit: Bow! I meant bow, I swear!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Looks like he's laying next to a giant Tollhouse cookie.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Is that a standard Carlos, or an imperial Carlos?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

Given that South America has a greater native genetic pool but still mixed genealogy, International Standard would be adept.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

I'm gonna need a Carlos to Cubit to Banana diagram.

With a slinky for scale.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Having accidentally stood between a galloping leatherback and the ocean, I can confirm that some turtles are still as big as cars, or at least they look a lot like it when approaching you at 40mph.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Death by turtle stampede would be a unique way to die.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Slow and unique.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I need Carlos to hold a banana for scale .... who knows ... Carlos could be a dwarf ... or a ten foot giant.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Never seen this applied to South America before. Pretty sure they'd be just as pissed off if you called them Americans as Canadians are if you call them Americans, even if America is in their continents name.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This is Stupendemys geographicus from Urumaco, Venezuela, and Rodolfo Sánchez from Coro, Venezuela.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Thank you!

So why did it say Carlos? Just to make a joke on 'car'?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Hmmm

Take concept of e.g. “Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston” -> Audrey Hepburn…

Add “stereotyping”…

¡Hola Carlos!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

Carlos is smaller than a turtle! LOL

He smol.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not good with car sizes, how many Dr Pepper is that ?

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