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ATTN: Americans: Bend over!
celticgeek:
Actually, if anybody believes those numbers, I have some ocean front property ,here in Arizona, for sale.
Nodaisho:
I think what it really comes down to with measurements is what you are used to, it is like your first language, no matter how many others you use, the first one you learn is going to be the one you use best and reflexively, you drop something on your foot after spending 30 years in spain and growing up in an english-speaking country, you aren't going to swear in spanish, you will swear in english. I think in US imperial units, if I use meters, it is because that is what I was given the information in originally, I wouldn't be able to show what that distance is without converting it from yards. I have no problem with someone else using meters, but I prefer using yards, just like I could learn to be right-handed, but fuck you very much if you try to force me to do so.
Celtic, everyone knows there isn't any beachfront property in arizona. I would buy you if you said east of the San Fernando valley, but that is because I know it has to happen soon, Kurt Russell can't stay in shape forever.
celticgeek:
--- Quote from: Nodaisho on 17 Sep 2008, 20:40 ---Celtic, everyone knows there isn't any beachfront property in arizona. I would buy you if you said east of the San Fernando valley, but that is because I know it has to happen soon, Kurt Russell can't stay in shape forever.
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Sorry, it's a joke. The idea is that if you believe some totally out of it thing, then you would also believe that there is ocean front property in Arizona. Sort of akin to selling someone the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.
By the way:
Furlong,Firkin, Fortnight System
Nodaisho:
Yeah, I know, I was trying to make an Escape from L.A. joke, but then I realized that it was only LA that became an island in that movie, and it didn't work without changing the setting, and then I really screwed it up.
edit: And I think I must be miscalculating the binary, because the way I read it, that wouldn't be difficult, as that gives you more than 15 gallons, and only 34 furlongs, which is 5 and 4/6ths miles.
1111 is 15, right? 8,4,2,1? Should I not be grouping it into segments of four digits? Should it go 4096,2048,1024,512,256,128,64,32,16,8,4,2,1? I'm actually not fluent in either binary or hex, I was going to be taught computer-based stuff in elementary, but that never panned out after the first two lessons or so, on an apple II.
celticgeek:
Yeah. I would give you a ration about that, had I not screwed up approximately a zillion jokes that I have tried to make up in my time.
Don't take any wooden nickels.
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