Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Rants and Stuff => Topic started by: Lieutenant Kije on December 07, 2004, 12:03:53 PM
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Come on, guys...this is TWG! Four days and no ranting?
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oh we ranted on ninja day... you just didnt hear about it... Stupid Gaijin
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now, if you're NOT gaijin, shouldn't it be Mad Dr. Shinto Calendar Elf or something?
*edit: it appears leaving the "n" out of "Shinto" makes the board think you're naughty.
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Okay...two days and no ranting?
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Don't WANT to go to work.
Does that count as a rant or is it more of a whine?
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I only have two things to rant about: my pleurisitic chest pain, and the frosty toilet seats here at work. And I've already ranted about both of those things.
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how about the dreary weather? adn it's cold. yuck.
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Ahhh...now that's more like it :)
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I want to rant about cars. In particular, I want to rant about the car that decided to die yesterday which means today I had to walk in the snow. And it's cold! Actually, ranting about it doesn't make me feel much better. Sigh.
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One of our cars died on Saturday night, and it was freezing cold and I had to push it about 150 meters to get it to a place where it could rest in peace (hopefully not forever.)
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This is one reason why I'm often grateful not to have a car right now. No car payments, no insurance, and no worrying about car trouble.
Of course, that also means that it usually takes me an hour to travel a couple of miles if I don't find rides, but that's just Life in the Big City.
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There's something to rant about:
I had to push it about 150 meters
Kije, you're in America, not some metric-hippie country.
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Consarnit! I will not stand for the use of measurement systems based on rational units in my country!
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You communist.
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does that make you a communist to? since, y'know, I was agreeing with you.
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And here I thought you were being sarcastic. I didn't think that people actually used the word "Carnsarnit" when they were being serious.
And believe you me: I was being totally serious when I called Kije a hippie. A tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, unshaven, bra-less, base-ten-loving hippie.
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But shouldn't we be glad he isn't wearing a bra? That would really freak me out.
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I think base twelve is a much more rational base. Just look at how many more ways it can be divided that result in whole numbers.
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Well, just think of all the great things that come in twelves: donuts, eggs, apostles. It's obviously a very good number.
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Obviously the latter two were never introduced to the baker's dozen. But digression. How does one develop pleurisitic chest pains? I've been coughing, madly, since friday. Saturday I came down with a fever (100.5) and was stuck on the couch watching movies all day. Funny story about that day too.
Made dinner, pasta and sauce (or what my family calls goulash). I didn't eat it right away. Not at least until an hour after I made it. But I had to get up and do something, and I did.
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a baker's dozen is so that you can F one up and still have TWELVE though.
I said consarnit because what I believed really went there was inappropriate.
also, I'm sorta serious, sorta not. I don't see why we ever need to go to metric when the current system obviously works so well
But whether you like base-10 or base-12, the metric system is at least consistent and is based on SOMETHING, while the "English" system is pretty arbitrary.
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I will rant for my friend Destiny, who bought a brand new car a month and a half ago and has had 4 flat tires at separate time since then.
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I will rant again about my manger, who now has decided that the clerks should all stand for our 8 hour shifts. He says that providing us a chair should be considered a luxery.
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I will use metric if I please. And perhaps I use it just to annoy you.
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I will rant again about my manger, who now has decided that the clerks should all stand for our 8 hour shifts. He says that providing us a chair should be considered a luxery.
Wow. Sounds like someone needs a visit from the ninja monkeys.
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perhaps I use it just to annoy you
Well, mission accomplished.
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Incidentally, I would just like to tell Kije that I don't actually have strong feelings about the metric system. Honestly, 80% of what I argue about on the forum I don't have strong feelings about. I just argue to argue.
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I figured my inquiry would reach your ears.
While it's fine that you just like to argue, I was secretly hoping that you were passionate about your measurement systems because I think of all the things to be passionate about, systems of measurement are pretty cool.
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I have to say, though, that if I was to feel passionately about a measurement system, it would be the English/Standard measurement system. I mean, which is cooler: decimeters, grams, and liters; or hogsheads, rods, and furlongs?
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/me chants, "HogsHEAD, HogsHEAD, HogsHEAD!"
the accompanying background counterrhythm chant is "Kill the pig! Smash its head! Spill its blood!"
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Here's the other problem with the metric system: a foot is such a good length. Most things aren't a meter long, so when you estimate distance you have to use fractions -- you have to say "about a third of a meter" or "about three decimeters". The length of a foot is so much more practical.
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because, as you know, 6 foot, 1 inch is easier to say than 1.85 meters.
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Speaking of measurement, I work in the lumber industry, and there is nothing screwier than lumber.
Of course, we all know that a 2x4 is not actually 2" by 4". It's 1-1/2" by 3-1/2". And almost all wood products work like that.
But here's the most irritating: Plywood is measured by 1/4": 2/4", 3/4", 4/4", and 5/4". Why don't they just say 1/2", 3/4", 1" and 1-1/4"? I have no idea. But the craziest part is: 4/4" is actually 3/4", and 5/4" is actually 1".
I think that this is why contractors charge so much -- because they know that if you tried to build your own house you'd measure everything wrong, and screw it all up. It's a secret combination -- you have to know the measurement codewords.
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there's nothing to say about that but WTF?!
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yes there is a conspiracy among contractors.
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yes
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so 3/4" = 4/4" ?
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No, 4/4" is 3/4". Jeeze, can't you read. =P
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unless we're talking rock and roll.
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Gee, I use metric and have never described something as a fraction of a metre in my life, except for maybe "Almost a metre". Maybe you yanks are just screwy enough to build everything at awkward sizes.
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That's because, here in America, our manufacturing tools are not limited to rocks and clubs. We're able to be pretty precise, and build things smaller than a meter.
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/me awards the point for that round to HoM
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Plywood is measured by 1/4": 2/4", 3/4", 4/4", and 5/4". . . . But the craziest part is: 4/4" is actually 3/4"
So 3/4" plywood and 4/4" plywood are the same thing? Unless 3/4" = 2/4", 2/4" = 1/4", and 1/4" = 0/4", which doesn't seem possible
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Sorry... I get confused talking about this and I work with the stuff every day.
Stuff called 4/4" is actually (if checked it with a ruler) 3/4".
I added in 1/4" when I shouldn't have -- We don't sell any plywood that is called 1/4" plywood. Instead, we sell 2/4" plywood, which is actually measured at 1/4", and everybody calls it 1/4" (but technically it's called 2/4"). There's the confusion.
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I want some 0/4" plywood. That'd rock
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/me beats up HoM with a metre long club. Since HoM's weapon is less than a metre, he stays out of range, avoiding retaliation.
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/me joins in on the beating with a cord of solid hickory wood.
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Archon buries multiples of nine millimeters into JP and Jeffe, laughing hysterically. Silly little assailants, it isn't size that matters.