{"id":561,"date":"2008-06-30T15:29:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T05:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=561"},"modified":"2010-02-23T09:54:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T23:54:05","slug":"mops-versus-height","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/06\/30\/mops-versus-height\/","title":{"rendered":"Mops versus Height"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people appreciate charts as a key method of conveying information in a graphical format.<\/p>\n<p>For those people:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mop-sizes.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mop-sizes-300x183.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mop Size Satisfaction\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mop-sizes-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mop-sizes.png 1397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some people appreciate rants as a key method of conveying information in a cynical format.<\/p>\n<p>For those people:<\/p>\n<p>I am about 180 cm (5&#8242; 11&#8243;) tall. That&#8217;s not absurdly tall. I am not a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/04\/16\/outliers\/\">statistical outlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, why the hell won&#8217;t anyone sell me a damn mop with a handle that comes up past nipple height? I want to clean the floor, not ruin my back by applying force while bent almost in two. Do I really have to spend my time working out how to custom-build my own mop handles?<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t 1940 anymore; men use mops too.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausstats.abs.gov.au\/Ausstats\/subscriber.nsf\/Lookup\/CA25687100069892CA256889001F4A36\/$File\/43590_1995.pdf\">Ref for height data<\/a> &#8211; an interesting read, as it documents another phenomenon I have frequently noticed: people tend to grossly exaggerate their own heights. Never trust self-reported heights, including mine.)<\/p>\n<p>Update: Based on a recommendation in the comments, I bought a commercial-grade long-handled mop, which I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/09\/25\/long-handled-surface-cleaning-system-a-review\/\">reviewed in excruciating detail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the hell won&#8217;t anyone sell me a damn mop with a handle that comes up past nipple height?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21],"tags":[289,288,100],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cathartic-rant","category-observation","tag-graphs","tag-mops","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}