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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:29 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:31 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: kallisto at November 10, 2023 02:32 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: ballyhoo kallisto at November 10, 2023 02:33 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: dantesed at November 10, 2023 02:33 PM (88xKn)
Posted by: Ex GOP at November 10, 2023 02:34 PM (qS8WV)
Posted by: ace
I bow to you for being able to watch SNL for *one* funny skit in forever.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 10, 2023 02:34 PM (sRF2S)
oooh, my ace is back
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 02:36 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: Diogenes at November 10, 2023 02:36 PM (uSHSS)
The metric system was created by the bloodthirsty French during the Great Terror as a way to wipe away the old world in every form.
Acting like the imperial system supplanted the metric system is wrong.
Also, I find it funny when British people get haughty about Americans using the imperial measurements, preferring the metric ones. The English invented the imperial measurements mostly. Their long-held rival the French came up with the metric system, while bathing in the blood of those that wouldn't go along.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:36 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:36 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: NBC at November 10, 2023 02:37 PM (lZVy/)
*Looks at calendar* My God, it's been almost 30 years for me. How time flies when you're not exposed to poorly written and performed comedy.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 10, 2023 02:37 PM (CwhoI)
Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at November 10, 2023 02:37 PM (w2k7f)
I would like to kill something just to watch it die.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2023 02:37 PM (ZLI7S)
Jane, you ignorant slut!
Posted by: Dan Akroyd at November 10, 2023 02:37 PM (8I1xD)
In fact, the metric system did not even exist in our Rev War... it was not invented until the French Rev War.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 02:38 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2023 02:38 PM (Cus5s)
You can try to retell his jokes but they're not near as funny as when he does them, because of that.
Posted by: Bayesian Prior at November 10, 2023 02:38 PM (q1I67)
Strong disagree. It was great in the mid-to-late 80s and early 90s. Norm MacDonald is the GOAT.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2023 02:39 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2023 02:39 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 02:40 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:40 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: It's all in the delivery at November 10, 2023 02:40 PM (8I1xD)
Posted by: ace
He did a bunch of 'da bears' skits. Wasn't that SNL?
Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at November 10, 2023 02:41 PM (w2k7f)
Posted by: JT at November 10, 2023 02:41 PM (T4tVD)
Marie Antoniette was asking what a "quarter pounder with cheese" was when the blade came down.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 10, 2023 02:41 PM (CwhoI)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
SNL has sucked moose cock since the early 80s when John Candy left them.
John Candy was SCTV, not SNL. He was immensely funny there. His Johnny LaRue doing a Christmas Eve "street beef" in downtown Edmundton, AB is hilarious from start to finish.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 02:41 PM (xG4kz)
Marie Antoniette was asking what a "quarter pounder with cheese" was when the blade came down.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 10, 2023 02:41 PM (CwhoI)
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A royale avec fromage.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:42 PM (GBKbO)
he was not in those sketches. You may be thinking of Chris Farley.
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:42 PM (KRtlO)
It just goes to show you... it's ALWAYS something!
Posted by: Roseanne Roseannadanna at November 10, 2023 02:42 PM (8I1xD)
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Ethan Allen returned to England after the war, and the British made fun of him. One day they put a picture of George Washington in an outhouse where Allen would be sure to see it. He used the outhouse but said nothing about the picture. Then the British asked him about it and Allen said it was a very appropriate place for an Englishman to hang the picture because “nothing will make an Englishman shit so quick as the sight of General Washington.”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 10, 2023 02:42 PM (l10hq)
Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2023 02:42 PM (gmo/4)
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That was George Wendt -- Norm Peterson.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 02:42 PM (krqg6)
Most standup comedy these days, isn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 10, 2023 02:42 PM (QBaJw)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 02:43 PM (enJYY)
You ought to see what the French Revolution tried to do with the clock and calendar. That didn't take at all.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 02:43 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: steevy at November 10, 2023 02:43 PM (FQmDC)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:43 PM (GBKbO)
Candygram.
Posted by: Chevy Chase at November 10, 2023 02:44 PM (8I1xD)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:44 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 02:44 PM (bWsRe)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:45 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 10, 2023 02:45 PM (l10hq)
Posted by: ace
Yeah, that's gotta be it.
In any case, i'm brain dead from jet lag. Been in the air or waiting on a plane since 1pm yesterday. Still have about another three hours to go on this last leg of the trip home.
Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at November 10, 2023 02:45 PM (w2k7f)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 02:45 PM (X98Jy)
Posted by: Jane & Dan at November 10, 2023 02:45 PM (8I1xD)
SCTV was hilarious, I still remember the Bobby Bitman skit and Dialing for Dollars with Walter Cronkite.
Posted by: dantesed at November 10, 2023 02:46 PM (88xKn)
Yes, it's "US customary units". Definitions are a bit different from the old Imperial system.
While I readily cede the superiority of SI for physics and engineering calculations, I "think" in US customary, and always will.
If you tell me the temp is 35C, I have no idea if that's warm or cold until I do a quick mental conversion. Same with everything, weight, distance, etc, etc.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 02:46 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 02:44 PM (bWsRe)
Only the funny ones
Posted by: Inogame at November 10, 2023 02:46 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: Garrett Morris at November 10, 2023 02:46 PM (8I1xD)
The imperial system did it with slide rules and cigarettes.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 02:46 PM (TzW+Y)
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Garrett Morris
Head of the New York School for Deaf People
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 02:47 PM (krqg6)
Shouldn't they call it "Stunning and Brave New World"?
Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2023 02:47 PM (2ocoG)
US was going to use the metric system initially. Jefferson wanted it. It's a wild story, but the reason it didn't happen was a Frechman who was coming over to the US to set it up, got taken hostage by pirates and never made it. And it kind of petered away after that.
Here's the story:
https://tinyurl.com/32chvcp9
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 02:47 PM (bWsRe)
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 02:44 PM (bWsRe)
Well they certainly don't have the balls to have either a "hahaha black people" or "hahaha muslim people" component.
Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2023 02:47 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Minuteman at November 10, 2023 02:47 PM (LaNzR)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: Weekend Update at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (8I1xD)
As I have not watched NBC network shows in decades, I have not watched SNL in that long a time, either.
I sometimes watch SNL clips on YT -- Celebrity Jeopardy, Norm MacDonald, or Chris Farley's "van down by the river guy" -- but that is it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Citizen Cake
Hardee's tried to out compete McDonald's. They offered a 1/3 lb burger. McDonald's 1/4 pounder still outsold Hardee's because people thought 1/4 was bigger than 1/3.
THAT'S why I don't argue with people on the internet.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (X98Jy)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: steevy at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (FQmDC)
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he was not in those sketches. You may be thinking of Chris Farley.
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:42 PM (KRtlO)
No, Da Bears sketch was Jackie Gleason. On the Steve Allen show.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (QBaJw)
Posted by: Azjaeger at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (0rxs/)
0 = pretty cold. 100 = kinda hot
Celsius:
0 = kinda cold. 100 = dead
Kelvin:
0 = dead. 100 = dead
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (ScR16)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2023
***
I shot a moose in Moose Jaw, just to watch it die.
Posted by: Johnny "the Canadian" Cash at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (KRtlO)
US was going to use the metric system initially. Jefferson wanted it. It's a wild story, but the reason it didn't happen was a Frechman who was coming over to the US to set it up, got taken hostage by pirates and never made it. And it kind of petered away after that.
Here's the story:
https://tinyurl.com/32chvcp9
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 02:47 PM (bWsRe)
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I think Jefferson is one of the big reasons we Americanized English as well. I think one of the changes he wanted to make but could get to catch on was changing "through" to "thru".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:49 PM (KRtlO)
Same. SI is great for scientific stuff, but Fahrenheit maps much better to actual human experience. For most of the Earth, you'll experience temperatures in the 0-100 F range, and it has better resolution for that range. You can feel single-degree F changes. Single-degree C changes are significantly larger steps.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2023 02:49 PM (2ocoG)
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This is dangerous misinformation.
Agreed. Their 30 year record of unfunniness is safe.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 02:49 PM (I/Qkd)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 10, 2023 02:49 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (KRtlO)
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Is he done saving the children?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
If you tell me the temp is 35C, I have no idea if that's warm or cold until I do a quick mental conversion.
There's nothing superior about a truncated scale that relies on incessant decimal points. Really? You think 30.555 degrees C is superior to 96 degrees F?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 02:50 PM (enJYY)
The imperial system did it with slide rules and cigarettes.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
And plain black coffee.
God Bless Gene Kranz and his flatop haircut.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 02:50 PM (X98Jy)
Posted by: steevy at November 10, 2023 02:50 PM (FQmDC)
During school I worked in a machine shop where things were
measured in thousands of an inch.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 02:50 PM (gfCY0)
Aaaahhkctchually,
US was going to use the metric system initially. Jefferson wanted it. It's a wild story, but the reason it didn't happen was a Frechman who was coming over to the US to set it up, got taken hostage by pirates and never made it. And it kind of petered away after that.
Here's the story:
https://tinyurl.com/32chvcp9
Posted by: Montec
Metric System Mansplaining! Only at AoSHQ!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 02:50 PM (xG4kz)
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This is dangerous misinformation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:29 PM (GBKbO)
So you're saying you don't get it?
Posted by: Doof at November 10, 2023 02:50 PM (5hJvA)
Posted by: Chevy Chase at November 10, 2023 02:51 PM (8I1xD)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023
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Human body temp is right around there, 38 C. I think? So that's 98.6 F. You start getting into the 30s with Centigrade, it's warm to hot.
Posted by: Johnny at November 10, 2023 02:51 PM (J2vNu)
During school I worked in a machine shop where things were
measured in thousands of an inch.
*cough*microns*cough*
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 02:51 PM (I/Qkd)
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 02:51 PM (gfCY0)
GW: Football is in yards.
Solider: So baseball will be too?
GW: Of course not. It will be in feet of course.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 02:51 PM (bWsRe)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:29 PM (GBKbO)
So you're saying you don't get it?
Posted by: Doof at November 10, 2023 02:50 PM (5hJvA)
He's saying it's no Prometheus.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2023 02:51 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Founders at November 10, 2023 02:51 PM (altPX)
"Nobody knows"
whenever I cook I am confronted with metric to customary conversions and I always have to look it up, and then I forget it a second later. it's truly a "nobody knows."
The whole customary system for liquid measure is just bizarre. How many cups in a quart? Nobody knows.
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:52 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 10, 2023 02:52 PM (fxCK2)
"Nobody knows"
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 10, 2023
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"Close to four, sir!"
Posted by: Johnny at November 10, 2023 02:52 PM (J2vNu)
The whole customary system for liquid measure is just bizarre. How many cups in a quart? Nobody knows.
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:52 PM (KRtlO)
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Use weights instead! Get a kitchen scale.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:52 PM (GBKbO)
Pffffft. It's 20 pecks per cubit. Duh.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 02:53 PM (I/Qkd)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:49 PM (KRtlO)
Except the William Perry part, for which they used an actual refrigerator.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 10, 2023 02:53 PM (QBaJw)
I saw where Frank Borman -- Apollo 8 and Eastern Airlines -- "departed this life in Thy faith and fear" on Tuesday. Our Space Race heroes are dwindling away to a precious few, folks.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 02:53 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)
US was going to use the metric system initially. Jefferson wanted it. It's a wild story, but the reason it didn't happen was a Frechman who was coming over to the US to set it up, got taken hostage by pirates and never made it. And it kind of petered away after that.
Here's the story:
https://tinyurl.com/32chvcp9
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 02:47 PM (bWsRe)
Yeah... I know Math is verboten on here... but... dates?
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 02:53 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:52 PM (GBKbO)
Why would anyone need to weigh their kitchen??
Posted by: Doof at November 10, 2023 02:53 PM (5hJvA)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 02:54 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:54 PM (KRtlO)
Coming soon, a feature-length movie mocking the metric system.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2023 02:54 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:52 PM (GBKbO)
Why would anyone need to weigh their kitchen??
Posted by: Doof at November 10, 2023 02:53 PM (5hJvA)
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To know how to properly divide it by their bathroom.
Duh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:54 PM (GBKbO)
They've emailed me with interest and have several short tests for me to take. I've looked the company up; it's Russian and about ten years old. Would I be contributing to helping AI replace real human writers?
(NB: "honest" and "harmless" are probably not in the same wheelhouse)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 10, 2023 02:54 PM (J2vNu)
Is there anyone today who can compare to the astronauts as heroes? None come to mind.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 02:54 PM (I/Qkd)
"Nobody knows"
Those who are 29 enough may recall in the early 80s that Shell changed all their gas stations to price by the liter. It lasted about a month. I remember my dad pulling into a station, deciding since he didn't know how to do the conversion that they might be ripping him off, and going elsewhere.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2023 02:54 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:52 PM (KRtlO)
4
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 10, 2023 02:54 PM (/HDaX)
Coming soon, a feature-length movie mocking the metric system.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2023 02:54 PM (RIvkX)
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Straight to Peacock! Subscribe to Peacock! We have all the SNL movies!
Especially Pat!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:54 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 02:51 PM (gfCY0)
Nein! - Nazi scientists at NASA
Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM (gmo/4)
Especially Pat!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:54 PM (GBKbO)
Dear G_d, no!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM (HfNu5)
Everything... Soc Sec numbers, voter ID stuff, Tax Info...
Holy shit.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM (gfCY0)
A quart is 32 oz.
Posted by: dantesed at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM (88xKn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZHpPeacOuk
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM (l10hq)
Posted by: Chevy Chase at November 10, 2023 02:44 PM
Hey...you're that Landshark guy, aren't you?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 02:56 PM (vqhPW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Everything... Soc Sec numbers, voter ID stuff, Tax Info...
The Russians supposedly recently stole all Federal government emails, including DOJ/FIB. I'm still hoping they get released.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2023 02:56 PM (2ocoG)
The International System of Units (SI) has supplanted the metric system. There's a French name for it, of course.
Fookin' Frogs
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 02:56 PM (xG4kz)
The whole customary system for liquid measure is just bizarre. How many cups in a quart? Nobody knows.
Posted by: ace
When you cook, you add seasonings "as the spirit moves you".
When you bake, you break out the atomic weights and measures with a truck stop certified scale.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 02:56 PM (X98Jy)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 10, 2023 02:56 PM (HfNu5)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 10, 2023
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An artifact of the Napoleonic Wars?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM (J2vNu)
Nobody knows.
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:54 PM (KRtlO)
2 pints in a quart. And the expression "mind your Ps and Qs" is about pints and quarts at a pub. Keep track of how much you drank so you can pay your tab.
Posted by: Doof at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM (5hJvA)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM (l10hq)
Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM (2ocoG)
If it isn't the theme to Star Trek TOS, then the heck with 'em.
Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM (gmo/4)
Everything... Soc Sec numbers, voter ID stuff, Tax Info...
The Russians supposedly recently stole all Federal government emails, including DOJ/FIB. I'm still hoping they get released.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2023 02:56 PM (2ocoG)
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*spins up 1500 page anti-Trump novel with this as the base*
-Stephen King
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM (GBKbO)
Wow, just announcing it, but it looks like every piece of information known by the State of Maine, has been stolen via an exploit in a file transfer program.
Everything... Soc Sec numbers, voter ID stuff, Tax Info...
Holy shit.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM
Send James Taylor to sing "You've gotta friend", I think he lives there.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM (enJYY)
Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: kallisto at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd
Who drinks a hogshead?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM (X98Jy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZHpPeacOuk
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM
My office was at the state Veterans' Day ceremony this morning. They played a medley of service songs, and when the Space Force song was played at the end, you could see and hear people in the hall saying "what the hell is that? Dunno...Space Force?"
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM (vqhPW)
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But don't worry about CBDC it is totally safe...
Posted by: Founders at November 10, 2023 02:58 PM (altPX)
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 02:51 PM (bWsRe)
Which begs the question, why 60 feet and 6 inches?
Is there some obvious answer that has eluded me all these years?
Posted by: BurtTC at November 10, 2023 02:58 PM (QBaJw)
but there's some liquid measure where there's three x in one y, isn't there?
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:58 PM (KRtlO)
The whole customary system for liquid measure is just bizarre. How many cups in a quart? Nobody knows.
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:52 PM (KRtlO)
In all seriousness, I have a Le Creuset refrigerator magnet big enough to tack down a recipe and more importantly, has a huge-ass table of conversions for all the standard and metric stuff.
Beats thinking about it, that's for damned sure.
/seriousness off
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 10, 2023 02:58 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: kallisto at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM (dCxaZ)
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So, you love Gremlins 2, huh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E2K1vqcuuc
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:58 PM (GBKbO)
Every branch of the military has one. Theirs should be Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle" though.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2023 02:58 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: jhawk90 at November 10, 2023 02:58 PM (WQtL9)
Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2023 02:57 PM
That's exactly what I sad.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 02:58 PM (vqhPW)
Are you sure? I heard it was for an elevator, where you are supposed to mind your poots and queefs.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 02:59 PM (I/Qkd)
Every branch of the military has one. Theirs should be Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle" though.
Posted by: Ian S
Rocketman.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 02:59 PM (X98Jy)
Teaspoons and tablespoons. 3 tsp in 1 Tbsp.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 02:59 PM (Mzdiz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZHpPeacOuk
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM (l10hq)
I sooooo thought that, due to yer nic, it was gonna Rick Roll me over to the I dream of Jeanie song.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 02:59 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023
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More important, is the hog done with it?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 10, 2023 02:59 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:59 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 02:51 PM (gfCY0)
Nein! - Nazi scientists at NASA
Posted by: Archer
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So, We put a man on the moon using Imperial measurement.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 02:59 PM (gfCY0)
The whole customary system for liquid measure is just bizarre. How many cups in a quart? Nobody knows.
Posted by: ace
Now do the pennyweight system for nails (fasteners), Shelvy McShelverson.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 02:59 PM (xG4kz)
If it isn't the theme to Star Trek TOS, then the heck with 'em.
Posted by: Archer
No it isn't. It's lame and and gay. Very gay.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 10, 2023 02:59 PM (l10hq)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 03:00 PM (krqg6)
But they had a subplot in this one! The black guy being completely ignored was pretty funny and raises this one to Genius Level - SNL Division.
Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2023 03:00 PM (CaJIi)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd
You get 25% more beer. Think about it!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 10, 2023 03:00 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:52 PM (KRtlO)
In all seriousness, I have a Le Creuset refrigerator magnet big enough to tack down a recipe and more importantly, has a huge-ass table of conversions for all the standard and metric stuff.
Beats thinking about it, that's for damned sure.
/seriousness off
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy
I just use an app on my phone.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 03:00 PM (X98Jy)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 10, 2023 03:00 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 02:59 PM (I/Qkd)
Queef is NEVER not funny!!
Posted by: Doof at November 10, 2023 03:00 PM (5hJvA)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 03:00 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 03:01 PM (gfCY0)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 03:01 PM (MeG8a)
Then there is the measurement system from the days of the Spanish Main --
"How many quartz in a galleon?"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 03:02 PM (xG4kz)
Scuttlebutt in this area is that a South/Central America gang is targeting Main Line* Philadelphia homes. Watching homes between 4 in the afternoon and 10 pm. Owners go out to dinner, house gets robbed. Many peeps involved.
They're pissing off the wrong people I suspect. Early bird special might make a return.
* snobby upscale predominately (D) area
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 03:02 PM (enJYY)
---Perigrine Took
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 10, 2023 03:02 PM (HfNu5)
The imperial system did it with slide rules and cigarettes.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
And plain black coffee.
God Bless Gene Kranz and his flatop haircut.
Posted by: rickb223
And a Black woman that wasn't given an opportunity to use a bathroom.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2023 03:02 PM (2rbYh)
Scuttlebutt in this area is that a South/Central America gang is targeting Main Line* Philadelphia homes. Watching homes between 4 in the afternoon and 10 pm. Owners go out to dinner, house gets robbed. Many peeps involved.
They're pissing off the wrong people I suspect. Early bird special might make a return.
* snobby upscale predominately (D) area
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 03:02 PM (enJYY)
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The solution is to increase police presence in their neighborhood and push the thieves to the poors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:03 PM (GBKbO)
Metric is so they remember they have ten fingers. It's a start.
Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2023 03:03 PM (HjfVN)
Posted by: Queef Olbermann at November 10, 2023 03:03 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd
You get 25% more beer. Think about it!
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It was mentioned last night, but Biden solved the age old question of why packages of hot dogs have 10 frankfurters but packs of the hot dog buns only contain eight buns.
Now the hot dogs come in packs of 8, and only cost 30% more than two years ago.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Get a gun, learn that gun, never ever give up that gun at November 10, 2023 03:03 PM (o/smN)
Everything... Soc Sec numbers, voter ID stuff, Tax Info...
Holy shit.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM (xaFKb)
We should have given Maine back to Canada when we still had the chance.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 10, 2023 03:03 PM (QBaJw)
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Because the imperial system is based on hundreds of years of actual, real world experience measuring things by people who had no measuring cups or tapes.
Thus, a cup is almost exactly two handfuls. A foot is ... a foot.
Then it's all just multiples of the wholes or halfs of halfs from there.
Mega-point: none the beautiful buildings in the world were built with the metric system
All of the ugly buildings, were.
That's why it feels more natural.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 03:04 PM (TzW+Y)
Posted by: steevy at November 10, 2023 02:50 PM (FQmDC
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Yep. We had a metric unit in fifth grade math around that time. Our teacher told us that the U.S. would eventually be converting to the Metric system, so we will need to learn it.
Posted by: Turn 2 at November 10, 2023 03:04 PM (JfxgE)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 03:00 PM (X98Jy)
Spills sauce on magnet and rickb223's phone.
I'm still in business.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 10, 2023 03:04 PM (/HDaX)
Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit is easy. Just multiply by 9/5 (i.e., 1.
and add 32. Multiplying by 1.8 is also easy: just multiply by 2 and subtract 10% from the result.Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:05 PM (PNB8i)
I'm still in business.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy
*snort
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 03:05 PM (X98Jy)
Actually, that was an odd one to make a joke about. The answer is 4. One reason liters have caught on for certain items is that they’re basically a quart.
In other words, they’re one of the few metric measurements that reflect real human usage.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Azjaeger at November 10, 2023 02:48 PM (0rxs/)
I think you mean: "plantation". Because it sounds like a plantation
Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (l10hq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Please! I come here for the 'no math' content.
You're dividing us!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (2rbYh)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (HfNu5)
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (gxokI)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Turn around on your right foot three times.
Not two unless proceeding to three. Four is right out.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (X98Jy)
Posted by: you know it's true at November 10, 2023 03:07 PM (yM+LC)
Yep, that's the quick mental conversion formula I used. Take the temp in C, double it, take off 10%, and add 32.
So 35C, doubled is 70. Take off 10% to get 63, add 32 and you have 95F.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 03:07 PM (Mzdiz)
I might have smiled once during the second.
Is this guy what modern comedy is?
Posted by: egd at November 10, 2023 03:08 PM (cOB2v)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZHpPeacOuk
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM (l10hq)
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Needs more cowbell.
Posted by: Just Lily at November 10, 2023 03:08 PM (0zVlk)
BTW, the Anglosphere prefers to credit inventors, I've heard, so prefers using Celsius to centigrade!
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 03:08 PM (krqg6)
14 lbs. to a stone? 16 ounces to a pound? 12 inches to a foot? 6 feet to a fathom? God knows how many feet to a furlong?
Hell, even their currency was chaotic until they went to decimal currency ... in 1971 (IIRC).
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:08 PM (PNB8i)
Unless you’re in Australia. Their teaspoons are the same as ours, but their tablespoons are four teaspoons.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 10, 2023 03:08 PM (EXyHK)
The solution is to increase police presence in their neighborhood and push the thieves to the poors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:03 PM
But why do they rob the rich neighborhoods they asked Willy Sutton? But you're probably correct, they'll get action and instead of demanding border closings they'll get the police action they want and go back to feeling superior again.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 03:08 PM (enJYY)
Posted by: Adlib at November 10, 2023 03:08 PM (p7g/T)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 10, 2023 03:08 PM (abhjw)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:09 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 02:43 PM (Mzdiz)
The best part was the names of the months, which were named about what the weather was like in France that month. Hey, at least the Roman months were named after the numbers, or a god, or early emperors.
Imagine living in CA, or the southern hemisphere when "Foggy" month started
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:09 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
Just guessing as I didn't follow the link - Up in the Air Junior Birdman?
Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2023 03:09 PM (2rbYh)
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Because the imperial system is based on hundreds of years of actual, real world experience measuring things by people who had no measuring cups or tapes.
One place where it's nice? Working on an engine.
Bolts and nuts are either 7, 9, or 10.
WTF is 7/32's?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 03:09 PM (X98Jy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)
How much in a Coors party ball?
Posted by: Doof at November 10, 2023 03:09 PM (5hJvA)
And then there was a span from roughly mid 70s to early 80s when speed limit signs and speedometers had dual markings.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 10, 2023 03:09 PM (nfrXX)
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In space, no one can hear you scream.
Or sing.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:09 PM (lf83v)
"Yea, we took a look at your newfangled, more logical metric system where everything supposedly makes sense. Our decision? Fuck you."
Oh and the Brits still use gallons, except their gallons are larger than ours.
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 10, 2023 03:10 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 03:10 PM (fwDg9)
I still see vining in this comment section, though.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy MAGA Extremist at November 10, 2023 03:10 PM (NYzgN)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (HfNu5)
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Cars in the US still do. There are two concentric sets of numerals on the speedometers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:10 PM (PNB8i)
There is some dispute over the scaling of the Fahrenheit scale. The low point, 0, was almost certainly some mixture of ice and brine which was the lowest consistent temperature they could achieve at the temp.
The upper end 100F, maybe corresponded to the rough human body temperature -- there are other ones. Melting point of butter is one I hadn't heard of.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 03:10 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 03:08 PM (enJYY)
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The Philly mayor will probably end up needing to make noises against unlimited illegal immigration like Eric Adams, but mayors have no power over immigration other than to refer arrestees to ICE.
So, we'll see if that happens. I'm not holding my breath.
So, rhetorical nonsense about how immigrants need to stay in Texas followed by protecting those who pay his bills.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
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Unless it falls off the wall, then you have to pass it around.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 03:10 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 03:10 PM (KRtlO)
If it isn't the theme to Star Trek TOS, then the heck with 'em.
TOS theme was supposed to have lyrics. Thankfully they got dropped.
https://tinyurl.com/3atu324t
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 10, 2023 03:10 PM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2023 03:10 PM (ZLI7S)
In other words, they’re one of the few metric measurements that reflect real human usage.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (EXyHK)
Well, not quite, but I guess if it doesn't really matter, it's close enough.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 10, 2023 03:11 PM (QBaJw)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2023 03:11 PM (2rbYh)
Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2023 03:11 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: dantesed at November 10, 2023 03:11 PM (88xKn)
Posted by: zombie Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in Paris at November 10, 2023 03:11 PM (krqg6)
SCTV was hilarious, I still remember the Bobby Bitman skit and Dialing for Dollars with Walter Cronkite.
Posted by: dantesed at November 10, 2023 02:46 PM (88xKn)
The one where a Russian station, CCCP1 jammed their new satellite and started playing Russian shows over theirs used to make me literally fall of the chair laughing.,,
Uzbeks: The Weak Link in the Great Chain of Socialism
Or What fits into Russia where they drop cutouts of other countries into Russia and laugh about how tiny they are
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:12 PM (eoQWY)
Every branch of the military has one. Theirs should be Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle" though.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2023 02:58 PM (2ocoG)
"Into the Void" Black Sabbath
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 03:12 PM (xPJvm)
Everything... Soc Sec numbers, voter ID stuff, Tax Info...
Holy shit.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 02:55 PM (xaFKb)
Maine, and a number of other states, uses the GenTax system for their state revenue, and that program links into all the other agencies' databases because it is set up to automatically monitor wage and employment status, and issue garnishments automatically. (It has trouble in Oregon determining non valid SSNs though) The information is stored out of state, if they are like Oregon.
oopsie.
POS Database that does nothing well but issue automatic garnishments, by the way.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2023 03:12 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: dantesed at November 10, 2023 03:11 PM (88xKn)
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It's impossible to maintain a set of measurements when the definitions keep changing like the ton continually getting heavier.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:12 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 03:12 PM (MeG8a)
They could have had some fun with how many shillings are in a pound.
Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2023 03:12 PM (HjfVN)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 02:43 PM (Mzdiz)
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They tried to impose a 10 day week, but got pushback because it meant several extra days of work.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:12 PM (PNB8i)
= a metric shit-tonne
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 03:12 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:13 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (HfNu5)
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Cars in the US still do. There are two concentric sets of numerals on the speedometers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Drive from Texas to Canada. See speed limit signs. Then realize "we got this" because it's on the inside ring of the speedometer.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 03:13 PM (X98Jy)
Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2023 03:13 PM (Cus5s)
my friend Steve_in_HB used to quote that a lot.
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 03:13 PM (KRtlO)
How much in a Coors party ball?
Posted by: Doof at November 10, 2023 03:09 PM (5hJvA)
I had one of those in my fridge in college. Didn't care because it fit with the pump attached.
But I think it was whatever the Budweiser version was called.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: dantesed at November
I loved Count Floyd.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 10, 2023 03:13 PM (HfNu5)
Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2023 03:12 PM (HjfVN)
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I've never understood British pre-decimal currency. I've read (don't know whether or not it's true) that shops used to close for a day at the end of the month to count up their takings. The currency was that complicated.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:14 PM (PNB8i)
So 35C, doubled is 70. Take off 10% to get 63, add 32 and you have 95F.
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Yeah, its as simple as measuring the temperature by cricket chirps per minute.
But only if it's the right species of cricket.
That's the metric system.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 03:14 PM (TzW+Y)
"Hey, these pants don't have a fly!"
"Hai!!!!"
Posted by: Sharkman at November 10, 2023 03:14 PM (29vZj)
Every branch of the military has one. Theirs should be Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle" though.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2023 02:58 PM (2ocoG)
"Into the Void" Black Sabbath
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 03:12 PM (xPJvm)
David Bowie has entered the chat.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 10, 2023 03:14 PM (QBaJw)
Posted by: gourmand du jour
They are knot the same.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 10, 2023 03:14 PM (l10hq)
Their long-held rival the French came up with the metric system, while bathing in the blood of those that wouldn't go along.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:36 PM (GBKbO)
Since when to the Frogs bathe?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 10, 2023 03:14 PM (n+4am)
Cars in Canada once had both mph and kph.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 10, 2023 03:06 PM (HfNu5)
Canadians crack me up.
"DUDE!!!! We were going so fast! Like, 145Kmh!!!!"
"So, like 73 MPH?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)
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I was recently on a road trip and saw a pristine Airstream trailer painted up to look like a Coors can. it was fantastic. Probably an official corporate ad/vehicle that goes to events or what-not, but it was really neat to see and a great idea.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Get a gun, learn that gun, never ever give up that gun at November 10, 2023 03:15 PM (o/smN)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2023 03:11 PM (2rbYh)
One of John Varley's protagonists had the nickname "QM" - Quarter-meter.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2023 03:15 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: dantesed at November
I loved Count Floyd.
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SCTV was the first comedy show to do Jeopardy in the format that became famous with Will Farrell on SNL. Basically, SNL plagiarized it outright.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:15 PM (lf83v)
I used to know but it's all a haze now. Has to do with measuring latitude measured at the equator blah, blah, blah.
Since we aren't using sextants much anymore not really all that useful.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2023 03:15 PM (ZLI7S)
They apparently still use the old system for a lot of things, and just convert to metric to follow the law. When doing some vintage cooking laster year I needed some golden syrup, which is only commonly available from Brit sources. The cans come in some weird number of grams. While doing conversions I discovered the reason is, that’s the number of grams in a pound.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 10, 2023 03:14 PM (QBaJw)
He did a cover of "Up and Away Junior Birdmen"?
Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (xhaym)
A nautical mile is one second of angle of latitude (or longitude at the equator) so that kind of makes sense. I have no idea where the 5280' mile comes from.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (nfrXX)
Or vice versa, I guess.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (QBaJw)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (8D/rU)
SCTV was the first comedy show to do Jeopardy in the format that became famous with Will Farrell on SNL. Basically, SNL plagiarized it outright.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:15 PM (lf83v)
Well, both Will Ferrell and SNL aren't funny, so......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)
It would pass today because it would mean several extra days of weekend.
Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2023 03:17 PM (HjfVN)
Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:17 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2023 03:13 PM (Cus5s)
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I spent years trying to explain the difference between mass and force to business guys. I tried explaining to them that when you jump on a scale you momentarily appear to weigh a lot more, although your mass obviously hasn't changed. They never grasped the difference.
Not being too bright, they also never grasped the mole concept. ("It refers to a collection of atoms/molecules. Just like a battalion refers to a collection of soldiers.") Bovine expressions ensued.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:17 PM (PNB8i)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 10, 2023 03:14 PM (QBaJw)
He did a cover of "Up and Away Junior Birdmen"?
Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (xhaym)
"Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows!"
--- Eh, David? I don't think she DOES know.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 10, 2023 03:17 PM (QBaJw)
https://tinyurl.com/4zdxx662
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (8D/rU)
F*ck........
YOU LEARN HISTORY SO YOU DON'T REPEAT IT, f*cking assholes..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Yes, it could have been a great “who’s on first” skit. But it would require knowing history.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 10, 2023 03:17 PM (EXyHK)
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Allegedly, a thousand strides of a Roman Legion.
But even that doesn't make sense because a mile is 1,760 yards.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:18 PM (lf83v)
From George Washington. Weren't you listening?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2023 03:18 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023
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Human body temp is right around there, 38 C. I think? So that's 98.6 F. You start getting into the 30s with Centigrade, it's warm to hot.
Posted by: Johnny at November 10, 2023 02:51 PM (J2vNu)
Farenheit made his scale so there would be 100 degrees between the coldest thing he could make - ice water bath with salts I think it was and the hottest summer days which makes it useful in normal weather in temperate climes. Celsius is pinned to thing people don't deal with nearly as much, and doesn't have good resolution.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:18 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2023 03:11 PM
I know, man, they don't know what the fuck a footlong is.
Posted by: Vincent Vega at November 10, 2023 03:18 PM (vqhPW)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy MAGA Extremist at November 10, 2023 03:18 PM (NYzgN)
The whole customary system for liquid measure is just bizarre. How many cups in a quart? Nobody knows.
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:52 PM (KRtlO)
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Use weights instead! Get a kitchen scale.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 02:52 PM (GBKbO)
Weight is hinky. It is dependent on the acceleration of a mass. Weight is not a fundamental unit of measure. Mass is. Force (or weight)=M x a. The proper term for the measurement a scale gives is pound-force (lbf), or kilogram-force (kgf).
Warning: Do not make go into slugs, rather than pounds, as the proper unit of mass in the Imperial System! It will involve more maths! And more info you will never use!
Posted by: Gref, a pedantic engineer this afternoon at November 10, 2023 03:18 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:19 PM (MNhXM)
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One gallon is 3.785 liters. If I'm computing gasoline in my tank that doesn't work.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 03:19 PM (gfCY0)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 03:19 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: watched SNL on small tv with rabbit ears antennae at November 10, 2023 03:19 PM (9X60i)
Talking about grams - I noticed that now that Halloween candy is now less then a single ounce, grams seems a more impressive unit of measure.
Cue Winston Smith next Halloween.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 03:19 PM (enJYY)
No, and there is much confusion over this (due to some engineering unit definitions). The pound is and always has been a unit of mass. For legal purposes, things are sold by mass (although the term "weight" will be erroneously used). When you buy a pound of something, it's the same no matter where you are and what the local value of 'g' is.
Take a standard balance scale to the Moon, calibrated in pounds. It will read the same as it does anywhere on Earth. A balance scale needs gravity to work, but it measures mass, not force/weight.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 03:19 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Doof at November 10, 2023 03:19 PM (5hJvA)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 03:19 PM (MeG8a)
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IIRC, it's a round number of standard wagon wheel turns
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 03:20 PM (TzW+Y)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (2NHgQ)
There's nothing better than Lee Corso on a cold Game Day set.
He had the stroke, sure, but add to that a cold face and he sounds like he's been drinking whiskey for 4 days straight and has yet to pass out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)
https://tinyurl.com/4zdxx662
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (8D/rU)
F*ck........
YOU LEARN HISTORY SO YOU DON'T REPEAT IT, f*cking Massholes..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:17 PM
FIFY.
And your point is valid.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 03:20 PM (vqhPW)
Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 03:20 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: steevy at November 10, 2023 03:20 PM (FQmDC)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 10, 2023 03:20 PM (EXyHK)
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Only if there are 6.022 × 10²³.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:20 PM (lf83v)
There most likely was a demand for a simpler system, and one of the people suggested for developing the idea of a Metric system was Christopher Wren, who besides being an architect who had to put things in terms his workmen could figure out, also was a mathematician and astronomer, as well as a member of the Royal Society, who probably had opinions about all that.
Tallyrand was a pimp. Metternich would have eaten him for lunch.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2023 03:21 PM (xhaym)
It's bound to have green roots.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 03:21 PM (gfCY0)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (nfrXX)
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The "mile" came from the Roman army, where it signified 1000 paces (as the name suggests), where a pace was L-R-L. The "foot" came later, and it was determined (probably inaccurately) that the Roman mile corresponded to 5280 feet.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:21 PM (PNB8i)
We'd have been alright if instead of "moles", we used "buttloads". The actual number doesn't matter, it's the concept, and buttloads is pretty easily understood.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 03:21 PM (I/Qkd)
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:21 PM (MNhXM)
From George Washington. Weren't you listening?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2023 03:18 PM (ZLI7S)
Miles generally come from the length of a man's stride. It is 1000 paces from the Roman army. Mille passus.
Foot comes from he size of a man's foot. Yard is distance from fingertip to chin, measuring cloth.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:21 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 03:19 PM
I thought that was a churro. Or is that a chocolate donkey?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 03:21 PM (vqhPW)
The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 pedēs ("feet"), but the greater importance of furlongs in the Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to 8 furlongs or 5,280 feet in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some successor states of which continue to employ the mile.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy MAGA Extremist at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (NYzgN)
Since 1893, the US pound has been legally defined in terms of the kilogram, a unit of mass. Since 1959, that value has been fixed at 0.45359237 kg exactly.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (Mzdiz)
Wingbeats of an American swallow, but I'm not sure if they're fully laden or not.
Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (HjfVN)
But even that doesn't make sense because a mile is 1,760 yards.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:18 PM (lf83v)
Even today, when we're bigger, the stride for marching is 30 inches....
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (xaFKb)
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The pace or stride is two steps. But to me even that doesn't measure out correctly.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:20 PM (lf83v)
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How did you get a superscript?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (PNB8i)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: kathysaysso at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (yACxx)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:17 PM (PNB8i)
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I thought a mole was a dimensionless quantity that refers specifically to Avogadro's number of items (of any kind--atoms, molecules, cats, dogs, etc.).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (QxAkH)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 03:19 PM (krqg6)
You are thinking "Topo". Which isn't particularly chocolaty
Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2023 03:23 PM (xhaym)
The imperial system did it with slide rules and cigarettes.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 02:46 PM (TzW+Y)
this ALWAYS remonds me of the meme:
Space in the metric system: picture of ISS above earth
Space in the Imperial System: Star Destroyers battling X-Wings and Rebel Capital ships
...
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:23 PM (KZaqS)
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The pace or stride is two steps. But to me even that doesn't measure out correctly.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (lf83v)
_________________
About 5 is correct. Somebody boobooed in converting feet to miles.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:24 PM (PNB8i)
Have to get some beer after work.
Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:24 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Doof
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So, you're a canuck?
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 03:24 PM (gfCY0)
It used to be just "Horsepower."
Now it's "brake horsepower." WTF?
Or, torque was foot pounds. They changed it to 'pound feet.'
Ah blow me......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)
All of the other SI units are defined in universal constants.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 03:24 PM (QxAkH)
Posted by: No Name Today at November 10, 2023 03:24 PM (vlXMQ)
We'd have been alright if instead of "moles", we used "buttloads". The actual number doesn't matter, it's the concept, and buttloads is pretty easily understood.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 03:21 PM (I/Qkd)
The size of the mole was chosen so the weight of the collection in grams matches the molecular weight of the molecule. So oxygen as molecular weight 16, a mole weighs 16g
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 03:19 PM
I thought that was a churro. Or is that a chocolate donkey?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 03:21 PM (vqhPW)
The chococabra?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 03:19 PM (gfCY0)
750 ML is about a fifth. close enough for taxing, at least.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (8D/rU)
Next they are going to quarter state troopers in people's homes.
[MA may be worse than NJ]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM (3Gtis)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM (lf83v)
Nobody can spell Fahrenheit. Yup. I got the red squiggly line.
Good sketch.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 02:43 PM (enJYY)
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Yes, the H is silent .... wait, which H?
Posted by: Ciampino - Centigrade, Celsius - where words originate at November 10, 2023 03:26 PM (qfLjt)
On the ocean you have to travel up and down on waves, so it is further to go the same distance. I may have made this up.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at November 10, 2023 03:26 PM (wu87C)
Posted by: Doof
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So, you're a canuck?
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 03:24 PM (gfCY0)
kilo is a Greek prefix, and ancient Greek emphasized syllable 2 most of the time.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:26 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:26 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
The dreaded Carpincho-chocolada, also known as the Mapinguari, but only in Paraguay and Northern Argentina.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2023 03:26 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy MAGA Extremist at November 10, 2023 03:27 PM (NYzgN)
That also would have been a good answer from GeoW , "3/4 of a liter is 1/5th of a gallon".
Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2023 03:27 PM (HjfVN)
Yet, somehow, the client list remains secret.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 03:27 PM (xaFKb)
Yet, somehow, the client list remains secret.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 03:27 PM (xaFKb)
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The only real criminal is in jail: the madame.
Where are the cries about rape culture now, feminists?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM (eoQWY)
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That works right up until the point where you have to take into account that the kg is the only SI unit that changes (slightly) over time. Thus Avogadro's number might need to be adjusted.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (QxAkH)
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 03:21 PM (I/Qkd)
considering that a butt is an actual measurement = 130 US gallons of ale or 151 US gallons of wine
so a buttload would be how many butts you could fit in a cart...
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (KZaqS)
Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (QxAkH)
A quantity of molecules or atoms. The point is that a mole of Uranium is very different than a mole of Helium.
Also that moles are a kind of weasel...and otter.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (3Gtis)
We'd have been alright if instead of "moles", we used "buttloads". The actual number doesn't matter, it's the concept, and buttloads is pretty easily understood.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 03:21 PM (I/Qkd)
The size of the mole was chosen so the weight of the collection in grams matches the molecular weight of the molecule. So oxygen as molecular weight 16, a mole weighs 16g
I think you missed the original point about bovine expressions. Your explanation will result in catatonia and fetal positions.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (I/Qkd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (N3zMI)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 03:29 PM (fwDg9)
That has changed over the last couple of years. The kg is no longer "That hunk of metal in Paris". See the "watt balance", and there's a another name for it. That tech is now mature enough to define the kg.
The kg is now defined by fixing Planck's constant to be an exact value.
The only "arbitrary" unit is now the unit of time, the second. Everything else is now defined in terms of that and by fixing some universal constants.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 03:29 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (v0R5T)
That strange orange thing from that video game.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)
1000 lbs is OBVIOUSLY 1/2 a ton. Or a smaller pickup truck.
GEEZ.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)
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What's three weeks, though?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:29 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (v0R5T)
I unit of measurement that made Bill Cosby a star.
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:29 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 03:16 PM (8D/rU)
Next they are going to quarter state troopers in people's homes.
[MA may be worse than NJ]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM
If you had said "illegal aliens" instead of state troopers, you'd be closer to the mark. I wouldn't put it past them....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 03:29 PM (vqhPW)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (N3zMI)
Why don't you start your OWN blog then!!???
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
On the ocean you have to travel up and down on waves, so it is further to go the same distance. I may have made this up.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at November 10, 2023 03:26 PM (wu87C)
Nautical miles are arrived at by slicing up the circumference of the earth evenly in about mile sized chunks and they didn't want fractions.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 03:27 PM (xaFKb)
JP Morgan doesn't have the client list. The federal government has the client list.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (3Gtis)
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (bWsRe)
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (DFdns)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (QxAkH)
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Nope. A mole of an element is the number of atoms in a sample having a mass equal (in whatever unit*) to the atomic number of that element. (And similarly for molecules, except then it's the sum of the atomic numbers of the atoms comprising the molecule).
* Strictly speaking, the unit of the mole is g-atom, so for carbon (atomic number 6), a mole would 6 g of carbon. In principle, you could have the pound-atom, which would 454 times more atoms (1 lb. = 454 g).
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (PNB8i)
What's three weeks, though?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:29 PM (GBKbO)
A period?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: m at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (ASp1y)
Each furrow ran the length of a 40 × 4-rod acre, or 660 modern feet. The standardization of such linear units as the yard, foot, and inch—begun by government enactment sometime between 1266 and 1303—recognized the traditional sizes of rods, furlongs, and acres
_Britannica
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (gfCY0)
A stone is 14 pounds. I weigh about 15 stone.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (MeG8a)
Hilarity will ensue.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (X98Jy)
Mandatory mask wearing begins on Monday.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (DFdns)
WTF for?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Since 1893, the US pound has been legally defined in terms of the kilogram, a unit of mass. Since 1959, that value has been fixed at 0.45359237 kg exactly.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 03:22 PM (Mzdiz)
The proper unit of Imperial mass, the Slug, equals 14.5939 Kilograms. I'm warning you again - do not make me go into slugs vs pound-force and how much a Slug or Kilogram "weigh" on Mars! Or at the top of Mount Everest!
Posted by: Gref, a pedantic engineer this afternoon at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:29 PM (GBKbO)
A fortnight and a bastion-night.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Cinnamon Avogadro at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM
*Haiti has entered the chat*
"One more!"
- Just the punchline
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (vqhPW)
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (bWsRe)
As practiced - the man is correct. Every measuring device that measures weight in your daily life - literally every scale from the grocery to the interstate weight station - uses a sensing element that measures deflection via force. But they are all calibrated using known masses.
So i practice ? Close enough. The system works.
Posted by: Nic of the Day at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (2PkBC)
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (DFdns)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (3Gtis)
There was $1 BILLION transferred in and out of Epstein's accounts... they have THAT info.
Follow the money.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (xaFKb)
Mandatory mask wearing begins on Monday.
Posted by: nurse ratched
Just follow the science. (tm)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (X98Jy)
Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (v0R5T)
How long can you tread water?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (N3zMI)
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 03:21 PM (I/Qkd)
That reminds me of some wag on Twitter whose moniker was something like "Standard Buttload @ Metric Buttload".
Heh.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 10, 2023 03:32 PM (/HDaX)
1000 lbs is OBVIOUSLY 1/2 a ton. Or a smaller pickup truck.
GEEZ.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)
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I propose that we call 1000 lbs. the "Lizzo."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:32 PM (PNB8i)
Mandatory mask wearing begins on Monday.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (DFdns)
WTF for?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Because San Fran ordered it last week?
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 03:32 PM (xaFKb)
RSV
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (DFdns)
Here we go again.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)
There was $1 BILLION transferred in and out of Epstein's accounts... they have THAT info.
Follow the money.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (xaFKb)
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That's the kind of evidence that rich clients are allowed to destroy in defiance of the law.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 03:33 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
RSV
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (DFdns)
N-95 or any mask?
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:33 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (N3zMI)
Why don't you start your OWN blog then!!???
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
I meant this as a Good Thing, not a criticism.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:33 PM (N3zMI)
All I know about Washington, weights and measures is that he was 6 foot 8 and weighs a fucking ton.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 10, 2023 03:33 PM (n+4am)
Mandatory mask wearing begins on Monday.
__________
Maybe the boss has huge herpes sore and just wants a way to hide it?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:33 PM (lf83v)
I meant this as a Good Thing, not a criticism.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:33 PM (N3zMI)
Yes. And I was joking.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)
4 rods by a furlong makes an acre.
15 acres makes an oxgang.
120 acres is a curucate
A knight I'm related to was awarded a curucate for putting up William and his horses for a fortnight in the 1066 conquest.
To farm that amount of land, to plow it, in a year requires something like 20 had of oxen as you have to rest your ox every 3rd year from plowing.
So a significant investment in oxen to own that amount of farmland.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 03:33 PM (TzW+Y)
On the ocean you have to travel up and down on waves, so it is further to go the same distance. I may have made this up.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at November 10, 2023 03:26 PM (wu87C)
My brother was a nuclear sub navigator during the first Gulf war.
He will get a kick out of this.
I'm sending it to him for Veterans day.
Posted by: Just Lily at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (0zVlk)
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (DFdns)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 10, 2023 03:33 PM (n+4am)
And he saved the children, just not the British children.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)
That was obvious. He may have been making a joke about your previous blog.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (I/Qkd)
>>1000 lbs is OBVIOUSLY 1/2 a ton. Or a smaller pickup truck.
>>GEEZ.
Then why do truck makers call their 1/2 truck 1500 series?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (ZLI7S)
The slug was an engineering unit definition, taking the weight of 1 lb mass at 1 standard g as a base unit of force.
There was another engineering system, that did it just the opposite. It let the lb mass be the unit of mass and then defined the "poundal" as the unit of force, One pound = 1 lbm * ft/s^2.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (Mzdiz)
6.022 × 10²³.
Same as in town
Posted by: Cinnamon Avogadro at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM
what do avocados have to do with it?
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (4mctT)
Any mask. So effing stoopid
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (DFdns)
Make sure you wear it below your nose at all times for maximum protection.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (bWsRe)
Posted by: Drive by
Any mask. So effing stoopid
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM
*facepalm*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (vqhPW)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:32 PM (PNB8i)
How about a Kamakawiowole after that dead fat hawaiian bastard who sang "Over The Rainbow"?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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That doesn't make any difference in cooking
unless you're cooking up something special.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (gfCY0)
Then why do truck makers call their 1/2 truck 1500 series?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (ZLI7S)
Because auto manufacturers aren't really all that smart?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM (lf83v)
and now you know which horses ass designed the roads that way...
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (KZaqS)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
It will be hanging off one ear.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (DFdns)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 03:29 PM (Mzdiz)
Second isn't arbitrary:
SI unit of time, defined as 9 192 631 770 periods of the ground-state hyperfine transitions of caesium-133
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 02:53 PM (xaFKb)
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This is AoS, not Tinder.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 03:36 PM (z5vMw)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (xaFKb)
Do you really want JP Morgan (or any financial institution) to do their own investigations? I can see that being catastrophically unfairly applied.
If the DOJ wants to know who was paying or paid by Epstein, they can find out.
They don't want to find out or they already know and are keeping it secret for political reasons.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:36 PM (3Gtis)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Make sure to go in the direction of the arrows on the floor.
Posted by: dantesed at November 10, 2023 03:36 PM (88xKn)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM (lf83v)
and now you know which horses ass designed the roads that way...
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (KZaqS)
Not in Russia, just ask von Manstein.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:36 PM (eoQWY)
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Has to do with the curvature of the erf. And aliens. I think.
Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 03:36 PM (bWsRe)
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (DFdns)
Put your hair in a bun and wear the mask backwards to protect the bun.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Make sure to go in the direction of the arrows on the floor.
Posted by: dantesed at November 10, 2023 03:36 PM (88xKn)
I drag my ass on the arrows like a dog wiping it's ass on your carpet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 03:37 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (DFdns
They getting paid to incubate RSV colonies?
Posted by: Emmie at November 10, 2023 03:37 PM (xAC7C)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (xPJvm)
Should have a chain, with links, attached to a rod in the corner of your office.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:38 PM (eoQWY)
E = Mc2 where c can be anything you want it to be.
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:38 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)
As long you follow the 6ft rule.
Posted by: dantesed at November 10, 2023 03:38 PM (88xKn)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (QxAkH)
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A really fun question is how would you determine Avogadro's number?
It's surprisingly difficult, because it's so fundamental that almost everything else derives FROM it. One way I remember is to place a weighed amount of a lipid on the surface of water (forming a monolayer of the lipid) and measuring the area.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:38 PM (PNB8i)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Drive by
Any mask. So effing stoopid
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY!
......
Get one of those Biden masks.
Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 03:38 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 03:38 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2023 03:39 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 03:35 PM (xPJvm)
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Hi there.
Posted by: furlong at November 10, 2023 03:39 PM (z5vMw)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 03:37 PM (MeG8a)
1000 paces of a Roman soldier coming to ruin your whole day. Makes plenty of sense.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:39 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at November 10, 2023 03:39 PM (wu87C)
hmm, seems correct, though the "legal" part seems about keeping a consistent measure. PSI in tires for example, seems more like it is still a force. Not sure where I learned pounds applied to weight, not mass.
A balance scale of course will measure the same on the moon, as it is comparing masses, not weights.
Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2023 03:40 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Ann at November 10, 2023 03:40 PM (4neFu)
Just got notification from my employer.
Mandatory mask wearing begins on Monday.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (DFdns)
Seeing as I'm the business owner and sole employee/worker/bottlewasher, I've decreed that masks will be mandatory by the workforce, but worn over my junk. As STD protection.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 10, 2023 03:40 PM (n+4am)
Give us a week and our machines can count a million or so. Accurate to within 10%.
Posted by: Maricopa County at November 10, 2023 03:40 PM (HjfVN)
The slug was an engineering unit definition, taking the weight of 1 lb mass at 1 standard g as a base unit of force.
There was another engineering system, that did it just the opposite. It let the lb mass be the unit of mass and then defined the "poundal" as the unit of force, One pound = 1 lbm * ft/s^2.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (Mzdiz)
Welp, it will be your fault if the rocket you design using the Imperial System doesn't work because you forgot to multiply or divide by 32.17!
Posted by: Gref, a pedantic engineer this afternoon at November 10, 2023 03:40 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: furlong at November 10, 2023 03:39 PM (z5vMw)
Ahh...Dimensional Analysis!
We had to convert all sorts of measures...my favorite was the speed of light into furlongs/fortnight.
Thank you Professor Markowitz!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:41 PM (3Gtis)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 10, 2023 03:42 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (Mzdiz)
Should have been pound-ow! since that is gonna sting if it hits you.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:42 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
RSV
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM (DFdns)
N-95 or any mask?
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 03:33 PM (MNhXM)
i suggest either the mad max face colander or get a Mandalorian helmet. wither way, your face is covered...
Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2023 03:42 PM (KZaqS)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)
It's difficult for most of us to tell...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:43 PM (3Gtis)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM (lf83v)
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Urban legend. Mr. Treviithick did a lot of experimentation in gauges before settling on one he thought worked best.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 10, 2023 03:43 PM (ScR16)
Just briefly looking this up. The system that uses the lb as the unit of mass, and "poundal" as the derived unit of force is the "American Engineering" (AE) system.
The one that defines the lb as the base unit of force, and the derived unit of mass as the "slug" is called the "British gravitational" (BG) system.
The one we all use with a "pound" loosely as both -- well, you have to use a factor of 32. Divide your force expression by 32.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 03:43 PM (Mzdiz)
Thank you Professor Markowitz!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:41 PM (3Gtis)
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Wow, I must be one sick puppy, because that problem intrigues me.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(z5vMw) at November 10, 2023 03:43 PM (z5vMw)
Posted by: Drive by
Any mask. So effing stoopid
Posted by: nurse ratched
Crocheted or sanitary napkins with wings.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 03:43 PM (X98Jy)
The ruts in the roads were created by Roman chariots.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
Which were two horses ass's wide.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2023 03:45 PM (X98Jy)
If Deshantee leaves the crack house with 14 grams of cocaine while carrying a 9mm, and drives his 2024 Lexus LC with a 5-liter V-8 to Compton, and shoots his rival gang leader three times in the chest, how long before his rival gang leader's body assumes a temperature of 21 degrees celsius?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 10, 2023 03:45 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 10, 2023 03:25 PM (eoQWY)
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Also a mole of any substance contains an Avgadro's Number of molecules. So 16g of Oxygen contains the same number of molecules as 12g of Carbon or 30g of Ethane or 386g of Cholesterol.
Posted by: Ciampino - Centigrade, Celsius - where words originate. at November 10, 2023 03:45 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Older pick up trucks were rated to carry a 1/2 and the heavy duty rated as 3/4 ton. The nomenclature stuck even as the quality and capacity of the vehicles were upgraded.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 03:45 PM (gfCY0)
Posted by: dantesed at November 10, 2023 03:38 PM (88xKn)
That's actually the one thing I liked about the 'rona bullshit. I hate it when people stand too close to me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 03:46 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: lin-duh at November 10, 2023 03:46 PM (a5Jsm)
6.022 × 10²³.
Same as in town
Posted by: Cinnamon Avogadro at November 10, 2023 03:31 PM
what do avocados have to do with it?
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 10, 2023 03:34 PM (4mctT)
How else would you make guaca mole?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 10, 2023 03:46 PM (z+89e)
Thank you Professor Markowitz!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 03:41 PM (3Gtis)
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Ah yes, the classic!
Btw, the speed of light is now measured in a microwave cavity of precise dimensions, with light of a precisely known frequency to set up a standing wave. Then use c = frequency*wavelength to get the speed of light.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:47 PM (PNB8i)
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One of my pet peeves is people doing calculations without including the units, just the numbers. It's a recipe for really screwing up a calculation.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 10, 2023 03:48 PM (PNB8i)
I LOL'd!!!
Posted by: lin-duh at November 10, 2023 03:49 PM (a5Jsm)
Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 03:49 PM (gfCY0)
Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2023 03:39 PM
Shhhhhh!
Don't give CBD any more ideas.
Pretty soon he will be writing posts on how to sous vide rusted bolts in the First World Problems thread.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 10, 2023 03:50 PM (HlyYF)
Literally the golden ticket to tie together the entire conversation of mass vs weight. Literally.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 03:52 PM (2PkBC)
That is just as arbitrary as defining the second as 1/86,400 of a mean solar days (or some fraction of the tropical year).
It's picking something, arbitrarily (although it has meaning to us one earth) and saying "that there is the unit of time".
The Holy Grail of a system of measure is one that can be rederived from scratch, without any prior knowledge (one solar day on earth, or this particular atom).
This means defining the physical constants exactly and taking measurement. Technology hasn't progressed enough to do this with time. Yet. But it eventually will.
See Planck (God's) units as an example.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 10, 2023 03:54 PM (Mzdiz)
Literally the golden ticket to tie together the entire conversation of mass vs weight. Literally.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 03:52 PM
However, that method does not work for some super-dense materials ... like Shelia Jackson Lee or AOC.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 10, 2023 03:55 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 02:58 PM
Nope. They're all powers of 2. For example, there are 2048 drams in a gallon.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 10, 2023 04:00 PM (HMFF1)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2023 03:28 PM (N3zMI)
Why don't you start your OWN blog then!!???
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
I guess he's not in the know. Time to pimp your site Robbo...
yipyipyip
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at November 10, 2023 04:07 PM (TTAGa)
You DO know what the actual purpose of Amazon Alexa is, right?!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at November 10, 2023 04:57 PM (0mTNs)
Posted by: Chip Meyer at November 10, 2023 05:56 PM (0lXQb)
Posted by: mediapostate at November 10, 2023 08:16 PM (0XkJ8)
Later, he put it in his will that his own slaves would be freed. He acquired those slaves from marrying his wife, i believe, she was from a rich family, he was not and thus couldn't otherwise afford the, she came with a plantation with, as usual, slaves. At that time, that was all he could legally do. He was trying to set up a country where law would be followed, rather than deciding things by violence. You know, like they do now. Ballots not bullets.
Posted by: Nightfall at November 12, 2023 12:54 AM (xd3qE)
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