The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[sun rise]

Exploding tomato...

Just eaten lunch with my dearly beloved hubby. Bread, cheese, lettuce, olives, and exploding tomatoes.

Small tomatoes, served whole. Hubby picked one up, bit onto it, a jet of juice and seeds exploded across the table and hit me square in my glasses.

How much fun is that, he hasn't stopped laughing yet.

And whomever said glasses were a curse should pay heed to this event.

 

[ChristineM]

And whomever said glasses were a curse should pay heed to this event.

Yes, i believe tomato juice is quite acidic

 

[Wu Wei]

The thing is with pi is that its an irrational number, so it seems you are quite happy with irrational imperial weights and measures just so long as you have 100 cents to the dollar, a full 75 centilitres in a bottle of wine and 9 millimetre bullets.

Das metrische System ist jetzt verboten

From now on I will only discuss the Zhang system of measurement where 10 chi is equal to 3.58 meters (11 feet 9 inches). The standard agreed upon between 1842 and 1860

cùn 市寸 = 1.312 inches – Chinese inch

chǐ 市尺 = 13.12 inches – Chinese foot

zhàng 市丈 = 3,645 yards - Chinese yard

lǐ 市里 = 546,8 yards - Chinese mile

It is by far superior to all other forms of measurement and likely why the Chinese are so good at math. DEAL WITH IT ya bunch of Guǐ lǎo 鬼佬

 

[ChristineM]

Das metrische System ist jetzt verboten

From now on I will only discuss the Zhang system of measurement where 10 chi is equal to 3.58 meters (11 feet 9 inches). The standard agreed upon between 1842 and 1860

cùn 市寸 = 1.312 inches – Chinese inch

chǐ 市尺 = 13.12 inches – Chinese foot

zhàng 市丈 = 3,645 yards - Chinese yard

lǐ 市里 = 546,8 yards - Chinese mile

It is by far superior to all other forms of measurement and likely why the Chinese are so good at math. DEAL WITH IT ya bunch of Guǐ lǎo 鬼佬

i note there are 10 inches in a foot, maybe not significant but it could explain why Chinese made clothes never fit me

 

[Wu Wei]

i note there are 10 inches in a foot, maybe not significant but it could explain why Chinese made clothes never fit me

chǐ 市尺 = 13.12 inches – Chinese foot... you appear to be obsessed with the number 10

 

[ChristineM]

chǐ 市尺 = 13.12 inches – Chinese foot... you appear to be obsessed with the number 10

1.312 inches – Chinese inch

*10 and voila

13.12 inches – Chinese foot

How metric do you want?

 

[sun rise]

Das metrische System ist jetzt verboten

From now on I will only discuss the Zhang system of measurement where 10 chi is equal to 3.58 meters (11 feet 9 inches). The standard agreed upon between 1842 and 1860

cùn 市寸 = 1.312 inches – Chinese inch

chǐ 市尺 = 13.12 inches – Chinese foot

zhàng 市丈 = 3,645 yards - Chinese yard

lǐ 市里 = 546,8 yards - Chinese mile

It is by far superior to all other forms of measurement and likely why the Chinese are so good at math. DEAL WITH IT ya bunch of Guǐ lǎo 鬼佬

I see you are a minion of Chinese measurement imperialism and hegemony.

 

[Wu Wei]

I see you are a minion of Chinese measurement imperialism and hegemony.

Yup.....and like I said before......Das Talk-Metrik-System ist nicht VERBOTEN

公制谈话是被禁止
Gōngzhì tánhuà shì bèi jìnzhǐ

 

[sun rise]

degrees centigrade
millimeters
meters
kilometers

THTPT

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Wu Wei]

My new mantra.....

I hate Gmail for enterprise....

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Because all of that was designed and probably built using Metrics.

 

[Wu Wei]

Because all of that was designed and probably built using Metrics.

Metrisches Systemgespräch jetzt VERBOTEN!!!

 

[ChristineM]

I have just had a thought.

When you see an aircraft accident on TV news (not seen one recently thank goodness) there is devastation all around, nothing is in one piece which i would expect when a few hundred tons of plane hits the ground at 500 miles (for @Wu Wei benefit) per hour.

The camera scans the scene and almost always settles on the one intact item in the field of destruction, a child's plastic doll.

The point is obviously to pluck your heart strings at the death of a child who's toy remains

So why don't they make planes out of the same material they make kids dolls out of?

 

[Wu Wei]

I have just had a thought.

When you see an aircraft accident on TV news (not seen one recently thank goodness) there is devastation all around, nothing is in one piece which i would expect when a few hundred tons of plane hits the ground at 500 miles (for @Wu Wei benefit) per hour.

The camera scans the scene and almost always settles on the one intact item in the field of destruction, a child's plastic doll.

The point is obviously to pluck your heart strings at the death of a child who's toy remains

So why don't they make planes out of the same material they make kids dolls out of?

Why don't then make planes out of the same material the black box is made out of, because that ALWAYS survives

 

[ChristineM]

Why don't then make planes out of the same material the black box is made out of, because that ALWAYS survives

Too heavy for a whole plane, have you felt the weight of those things? It would never get off the ground

Besides, they are all metric so you'd object to flying in them

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Metrisches Systemgespräch jetzt VERBOTEN!!!

Du kannst meine Metrischen Shorts frissen!

 

[ChristineM]

Metrisches Systemgespräch jetzt VERBOTEN!!!

Why are you using a metric language to diss metric?

 

[Wu Wei]

Too heavy for a whole plane, have you felt the weight of those things? It would never get off the ground

Besides, they are all metric so you'd object to flying in them

Metrisches Systemgespräch jetzt VERBOTEN!!!

 

[Wu Wei]

Metrisches Systemgespräch jetzt VERBOTEN!!!