they forgot to add hand full and mouth full.
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they forgot to add hand full and mouth full.
And the ever popular butt load...
And the pinch, a smidge, a little bit, and grandma's ever favorite: "enough"
It is raining here. I cannot work outside. I know I have 100's of things I should be doing inside, but instead I was waisting time online. Found this video I thought might be of interest to this group. Listen carefully for a couple of references to various non standard units of weight, (a couple of US nickels) for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k9egfWvb7Y
While I wouldn't recommend quoting weights in units of nickels, the fact that a nickel weighs 5 grams is handy for impromptu scale checking, not to mention the ease of remembering that 5 cents weighs 5 grams.
Relatable concerning reference weights. The famous author, especially on subject of reloading, Dean Grennell, told how his first powder scale was home made. His efforts at calibration were via aspirin tablets, bottle labeled as 5 grains.
Not so, 5 grains was weight of active content, less of course than complete tablet. He was lucky to not overcharge handgun cartridges with energetic powder like Hercules Bullseye, a favorite target composition. In .38 Special, the standard was 2.7 grains, a bit more with Unique.
BTW one pound = 7000 grains, 1 gram is 15.4323583529 grains...
if I had a grain of salt and a nickel for every thime i wanted to weigh somethen I could make a margarita...for one of those tok tic hootchies visiting the photo shop for some body work and torn clothes.
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I hope that this cartoon, originally published in “Punch” in 1914, will amuse you.
Although I grew up with pounds, shillings and pence, the sum was too difficult for my mental arithmetic. I expect, though, most of the adult readers at the time would have reached the answer rapidly. Would you like to know why?
Unfortunately the print is difficult to read. The schoolmaster asks Tertius what 4% of £5 would be. Tertius’s second guess is the nearest.
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Well, they were used to mental gymnastics, or...the other party always accepted just which answer the other came up with : )
"It's three shillings, two ha-penny and three groats!" (I will note that my entire knowledge of the old system of English currency comes from Mary Poppins ) :D
At least Thomas Jefferson prevailed with our currency....4% of 5 bucks is 20 cents.
i DONT HAVE ANY DEER AROUND HEAR,I DO HAVE 5 SENCES....SOMETIMES..,BUT NO GOATS(UNLESS YOU COUNT ME) AS FOR MARRY POPPINS ...I WOOD GIVE HER A FEW POUND'S TO PASS THE TIME AND PUT A SMILE ON BOTH OUR FACES. A LITTLE BIT~O~HUNNYV:bananadance:
Maybe OT - but I just had to share this (as self-restraint is a scarce resource nowadays):
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Easier to read:https://polaris93.livejournal.com/2046896.html
Definition of Force:
"1 Blintzal (b-al) = a force which, when acting upon 1 blintz of mass for 1 kovac, causes it to attain a velocity of 1 potrzebie per kovac"
Am I glad that I'mm nearly 80, or am I glad that I'km nearly 80? there's only a finite timme that I must put up with this crap
I love that nearly all the various terms Knuth used other than 'Potrzebie' pretty much read like Don Martin sound effects (and yes it is by THE Donald Knuth of The Art of Computer Programming , as a young man )
A nice collection of football field measurement memes.
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Another crazy comparison;
'Superload' Lumbers Across Pennsylvania, Two Lanes Wide and as Heavy as Two Whales
The article clarifies BlueWhales.
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that all depends on how many times the story has been told,as well as the original fisherman/whaler. sounds like a whale of a story to me. but a super load of what?? my wife got a superload in the back of her honda one time, I was helping her with it
The Banana equivalent dose or BED is a measurement of ionizing radiation, because bananas contain potassium-40, a radioactive isotope of potassium. For example, a lethal dose of radiation is about 35,000,000 BED. Made famous in part by this chart from Randall Munroe of XKCD:
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So, what radiation did Jane receive from Tarzan, while sleeping among banana trees?
I love the tagline "A cellphone's transmitter does not produce ionizing radiation* and does not cause cancer.
*Unless it's a bananaphone"
Because "living within 50 miles of a nuclear powerplant for a year is equal to eating one banana." I knew there was a reason I don't like bananas!
I find this troubling, and a bit confusing.
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It appears that responders working to rescue people are able to withstand 2 1/2 times the radiation than responders working to save valuable property.
Can working saving "valuable" people take more radiation than those saving people of less "value" who makes that call?
How does that work? I realize that it is more important to save people than is it equipment, but people can only take so much radiation, no matter what they are doing.
What am I missing?
I think the chart means to say it is worth absorbing more mSv rescuing people than rescuing property.
so should I eat bananas or not?? what about the radaition i got from my cancer treetments that were higher than permited(was waht I was told by tech that gave them to me) 3 or 4 different times trying to kill either me or the cancer. (they may of done both...)
The Banana equivalent dose or BED
At the very bottom is says don't believe anything you see on the internet.
Asteroid measured in a fraction of a giraffe.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...t-Iceland.html
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Which half...
I'll get right to work adding African wild animal pieces to my units conversion program. It needs an update anyway; recently I was made aware of some missing entries...
1 imperial gill = 12 imperial dessertspoons
1 inferial gill = 11.8294 inferial dessertspoons
Introducing a living animal into the already overtaxed zoo of Imperial measurement will produce some very thorny problems. The opportunities for humor are sufficiently fertile to encourage a revival of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
I think that the clickbait era may have exacerbated the problem of bizarre units of measurement.
Also, it seems like they're using a giraffe as a measure of volume, when it would've been more appropriate as a measure of height.
Half as tall, half as wide or half as heavy.
I find the space between my forefinger and my thumb to be a reliable measurement. No matter how wide or far away, I find the object of measurement to fit exactly.
According to Google there are only 3 countries left in the world that still use the Imperial system for measurement and the US is one of them. Wasn't a measurement conversion error the cause of a shuttle disaster. How about joining the rest of the world you guys if only because it's SO much easier to use.
(Yea ok, we still drive on the left down under, and that's not going to change)
How many warthogs are in a giraffe? I prefer to use smaller units to enhance precision.
In regard to (Yea ok, we still drive on the left down under, and that's not going to change), That has to do with the Earths rotation...Right? If one person stands on the North Pole they are spinning in one direction, if at the same time another person stands on the South Pole, they are spinning in the opposite direction!!! Right? Imagine the Earth's axis were an all thread rod that is stationary. Each person holding a nut. As the Earth spins, one nut is getting closer to the Earth, the other nut is getting further away! Right? SO one is turning left the other is turning right. SO it is OK if you people "down there" on the bottom half drive on the left. But those up on the top half that drive on the left, well there is no excuse for that!!!
But it is all good because we are all little "nuts" anyway :beer:
Of course if the Earth is flat, then this is all meaningless.
ON a more serious note. I find it interesting that the metric/imperial systems are so often MIXED within the same size designation. Tires (tyres) are the first example that comes to mind. While some tires, here in the US anyway, are in inches 35X12.50R15LT E, others are mixed millimeter and inch, P255/60R17 102V.
Is it like this "down there also"?
For your further enjoyment;
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So it just made a splash?
Another measurement gem is the story of how A&W restaurants tried to market a 1/3 pound burger (larger than the standard 1/4 pound burger) but it failed. A&W hired a market research firm, who determined that Americans thought it was foolish to pay more for a 1/3 pound burger than a 1/4 pound burger, because 3 is less than 4. It's possible that there may be other reasons that this strategy failed, but this signal suggests that the research firm was probably correct. This has entered restaurant lore with an official entry on the website of A&W Restaurants: https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-th...rger-fractions
This is especially ironic because Americans' innumeracy was so great that it overcame their legendary love of both burgers and portion size increases. Note how modern fast food marketing strategy eschews fractions and instead focuses on increasing the number of burger patties, even if they are thinner and weigh less.
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I searched on "math is hard meme" for an image to accompany this post, and there are some beauties:
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This is also why many times a 50% off sale will be accompanied with the statement: …that’s half!