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Commander Kinsey
Apr 7, 2023, 12:03:31 PM4/7/23
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2023 21:18:30 -0000, NY <m...@privacy.invalid> wrote:
> "Cindy Hamilton" <hami...@invalid.com> wrote in message
> news:FLyTL.2112271$GNG9.1...@fx18.iad...
>> Ah, well. We're ahead of you there. We don't use stones as a unit
>> of weight in the U.S. We just use pounds.
>>
>> Hundredweight might be used in some specialized context, but never
>> in daily life.
>>
>> Incidentally, I buy topsoil in 40-pound bags, but mulch by the
>> cubic foot. I often wish I knew the weight of the latter before
>> I attempt to lift it.
>>
>> I'd like the U.S. to go fully metric, but I'm confident I won't see it
>> in my lifetime.
>
> I think the whole world would like the US to go metric, then the imperial
> system (or the US version of it) would finally die the death it should have
> had many decades ago.
>
> I realised that the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
Why are people obsessed with littering their sentences with "that"? Show me the difference in meaning between:
I realised that the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
I realised the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
> In the UK, it's common
More like always.
> for people to give their weight as "14 stone 5 [pounds]" rather
> than "201 pounds". But that's probably the only context in which stones are
> still used as "folk units".
>
> The thing that made me double-take when I was on holiday in Massachusetts
> (*), was road signs, especially local signs and road-works signs, which used
> feet even for fairly long distances: "Road works in 3000 feet".
It's because they only have math and not maths, it doesn't allow for more denominations.
> Hmm, I need to do a quick calculation: that's 1000 yards or about about 0.6 miles. In
> the UK, distances on road signs tend to be expressed in yards (for small
> distances) or fractions of a mile (1/4, occasionally 1/3, 1/2, 3/4 mile).
> And trip milometers in cars express distances in tenths of a mile. I'm not
> saying that UK's convention is better or worse than US's - just different.
It's a lot better. Smaller numbers.
> On the other hand, dates expressed as MM/DD/YY defy logic
They need more brain cells to use logic.
> because the units
> are not in ascending or descending order of significance: DD/MM/YY (UK) or
> YY-MM-DD (ISO something-or-other standard).
Chinese/Japanese I think, and used in computers so a single number will always be in date order.
> I tend to express months in
> letters because "11 Mar(ch) 2023" means the same throughout the
> English-speaking world,
I don't, I use it properly and to hell with th emorons in the far west.
> even if an American might express it as Mar 11 2023;
There's another complication. If someone writes June 24, is that June the 24th (as in about two months from now) or June 2024 (just over a year from now)? You should always write 24 June.
> on the other hand, "11/03/2023" might be Nov 3 2013. There are exceptions:
> even in the UK, we refer to "9/11" because it happened in the US so their
> rules apply.
I call it 11/9 to piss off the thicko merkins. And to laugh at the mozzies getting one over on them. The US couldn't win a war if the opposition had one hand tied behind their backs. They knocked down two of your big buildings. Refuckingtaliate.
> (*) I can never remember the single and double letters: I need to remember,
> it's 2s, 1s, 2t!
How is that easier to remember? Doesn't work for misssisssisssippisspissi either.
> "Cindy Hamilton" <hami...@invalid.com> wrote in message
> news:FLyTL.2112271$GNG9.1...@fx18.iad...
>> Ah, well. We're ahead of you there. We don't use stones as a unit
>> of weight in the U.S. We just use pounds.
>>
>> Hundredweight might be used in some specialized context, but never
>> in daily life.
>>
>> Incidentally, I buy topsoil in 40-pound bags, but mulch by the
>> cubic foot. I often wish I knew the weight of the latter before
>> I attempt to lift it.
>>
>> I'd like the U.S. to go fully metric, but I'm confident I won't see it
>> in my lifetime.
>
> I think the whole world would like the US to go metric, then the imperial
> system (or the US version of it) would finally die the death it should have
> had many decades ago.
>
> I realised that the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
Why are people obsessed with littering their sentences with "that"? Show me the difference in meaning between:
I realised that the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
I realised the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
> In the UK, it's common
More like always.
> for people to give their weight as "14 stone 5 [pounds]" rather
> than "201 pounds". But that's probably the only context in which stones are
> still used as "folk units".
>
> The thing that made me double-take when I was on holiday in Massachusetts
> (*), was road signs, especially local signs and road-works signs, which used
> feet even for fairly long distances: "Road works in 3000 feet".
It's because they only have math and not maths, it doesn't allow for more denominations.
> Hmm, I need to do a quick calculation: that's 1000 yards or about about 0.6 miles. In
> the UK, distances on road signs tend to be expressed in yards (for small
> distances) or fractions of a mile (1/4, occasionally 1/3, 1/2, 3/4 mile).
> And trip milometers in cars express distances in tenths of a mile. I'm not
> saying that UK's convention is better or worse than US's - just different.
It's a lot better. Smaller numbers.
> On the other hand, dates expressed as MM/DD/YY defy logic
They need more brain cells to use logic.
> because the units
> are not in ascending or descending order of significance: DD/MM/YY (UK) or
> YY-MM-DD (ISO something-or-other standard).
Chinese/Japanese I think, and used in computers so a single number will always be in date order.
> I tend to express months in
> letters because "11 Mar(ch) 2023" means the same throughout the
> English-speaking world,
I don't, I use it properly and to hell with th emorons in the far west.
> even if an American might express it as Mar 11 2023;
There's another complication. If someone writes June 24, is that June the 24th (as in about two months from now) or June 2024 (just over a year from now)? You should always write 24 June.
> on the other hand, "11/03/2023" might be Nov 3 2013. There are exceptions:
> even in the UK, we refer to "9/11" because it happened in the US so their
> rules apply.
I call it 11/9 to piss off the thicko merkins. And to laugh at the mozzies getting one over on them. The US couldn't win a war if the opposition had one hand tied behind their backs. They knocked down two of your big buildings. Refuckingtaliate.
> (*) I can never remember the single and double letters: I need to remember,
> it's 2s, 1s, 2t!
How is that easier to remember? Doesn't work for misssisssisssippisspissi either.
Pepe Ron Cini
Apr 7, 2023, 1:08:12 PM4/7/23
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Commander Kinsey wrote:
> Why are people obsessed with littering their sentences with "that"? Show me the difference in meaning between:
>
> I realised that the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
> I realised the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
I don't think that it matters.
> Why are people obsessed with littering their sentences with "that"? Show me the difference in meaning between:
>
> I realised that the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
> I realised the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
Peeler
Apr 7, 2023, 1:45:31 PM4/7/23
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 13:07:43 -0400, Pepe Ron Cini, another demented
troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered:
>> I realised that the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
>> I realised the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
>
> I don't think that it matters.
What matters to him is whether you pay attention to his absolutely idiotic
trolls or don't, troll-feeding senile asshole!
troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered:
>> I realised that the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
>> I realised the US didn't use stones for measuring weights.
>
> I don't think that it matters.
trolls or don't, troll-feeding senile asshole!
Commander Kinsey
Apr 15, 2023, 3:27:26 PM4/15/23
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Here's a worse example only Americans use:
"Now what you're gonna wanna do next is turn on the switch".
Instead of:
"Turn on the switch".
Max Demian
Apr 16, 2023, 6:50:03 AM4/16/23
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saying it's what you "wanna do".
--
Max Demian
Commander Kinsey
Apr 16, 2023, 8:51:42 AM4/16/23
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On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 11:55:24 +0100, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Max Demian <max_d...@bigfoot.com> writes:
>> It shifts responsibility for what happens to you in case it goes bang by
>> saying it's what you "wanna do".
>
> One should not confuse the greek "υ" with the latin "v".
>
> I was listening to lecturers, and when they want to instruct
> you to do something, they usually use "go ahead", e.g.,
> "Now go ahead and flip the switch!".
That also implies they believe it's safe to do so.
> Max Demian <max_d...@bigfoot.com> writes:
>> It shifts responsibility for what happens to you in case it goes bang by
>> saying it's what you "wanna do".
>
>
> I was listening to lecturers, and when they want to instruct
> you to do something, they usually use "go ahead", e.g.,
> "Now go ahead and flip the switch!".
That also implies they believe it's safe to do so.
Commander Kinsey
Apr 16, 2023, 8:52:01 AM4/16/23
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Peeler
Apr 16, 2023, 9:47:42 AM4/16/23
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On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 11:49:57 +0100, Max Dumbian, the REAL dumb, notorious,
troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered again:
> It shifts responsibility for what happens to you in case it goes bang by
> saying it's what you "wanna do".
Who but a retarded troll-feeding senile asshole like you would ever give a
shit about what that retarded trolling attention whore says!
--
Max Dumb having another senile moment:
"It's the consistency of the shit that counts. Sometimes I don't need to
wipe, but I have to do so to tell. Also humans have buttocks to get
smeared due to our bipedalism."
MID: <6vydnWiYDoV1VUrD...@brightview.co.uk>
--
And yet another senile moment:
"A fawn bowl will show piss a lot less than a white one."
MID: <tv1of3$1v4qg$1...@dont-email.me>
troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered again:
> It shifts responsibility for what happens to you in case it goes bang by
> saying it's what you "wanna do".
shit about what that retarded trolling attention whore says!
--
Max Dumb having another senile moment:
"It's the consistency of the shit that counts. Sometimes I don't need to
wipe, but I have to do so to tell. Also humans have buttocks to get
smeared due to our bipedalism."
MID: <6vydnWiYDoV1VUrD...@brightview.co.uk>
--
And yet another senile moment:
"A fawn bowl will show piss a lot less than a white one."
MID: <tv1of3$1v4qg$1...@dont-email.me>
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