Can someone measure a dvd box for me please?

[Flamesparrow]

How wide is it?

I need to buy a wrist support, I can't find the tape measure but I found string... turns out that my wrist is the same circumference as a dvd box is wide

13.5cm or 5 and 2 little bits inches.

Good grief your wrist is tiny!

13 1/2 cm wide, 19 cm long

or if you prefer old-style: 5 inches and two little bits wide and 7 1/2 inches long

was I first, please tell me I was the first one to get the tape measure out

(sorry about your wrist btw)

bugger. I wasn't first

Beat you

serenity didn't know what those little bits of inches are called either

Aren't they called 'fractions of an inch'?

Catchy!

I made it 13.7 and 5 and 4 little bits..

I think, going on the concensus, 'little bits' is the official term (or it should be anyway).

Thank you - and now I am even more

X-small - 11.5-13cm
Small - 14-15.5cm

I have a feeling my one for my left wrist was an XS because she had to go away and hunt out the rarely used box

Yes, I do have teeny wrists, dainty little hands too, not entirely sure what happened with the rest of me!

concensus consensus, bugger.

The little bits are indeed called little bits.

Tis taught in schools.

Or it would be if they used inches.

(No "little bits" on the site though, hence going for the cms measurements)

Which size do I get?

How does your current one compare to your piece of string? If it's smaller it must be an XS, so get that - if it's a bit bigger get the S instead. You know, you post on MN, you should have proper truck drivers hairy wrists, then you wouldn't have this problem.

You're just getting cocky now

So... the original support it seems still has a label (I was convinced it had washed off) - with a size, and a company name

pmsl

Now I have to pay silly postal prices to get it couriered otherwise it won't get here til after the strike

That cost a fortune in the end... do you think I can write it off as a business expense and say it is carpal tunnel?