I've noticed that some younger folks who only know digital clocks tend to think of hours as 100 minutes. I bet they don't understand 90 degree angles, either. (via Bored Panda)
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It gets even more complicated when you get Countries mixed up. A ton in the UK is 2240 pounds, a hundredweight is 112 pounds and a quarter is 28. In the US it is 2000, 100, and 25.. Unless you're in Texas, where everything is bigger. I gave up try to explain to someone that six thirty five is the same as 25 minutes to seven, but I couldn't expect to much as she went to University.
Too many people called Anonymous. Don't know if they are correcting themselves or each other. Just use a name, make one up, don't choose Anonymous.
I spent the entire allotted time trying to figure out what mfs means. Closest I could get was something about mothers and incestuous behaviour, in plural. Guess it is sort of like using an asterisk in place of one vowel in a rude word, so that the writer can feel all innocent while forcing the reader to vocalise the word in their head. Which is a dirty trick done dirt ch**p I would write what i think of those people but I've run out of asterisks.
Last time I was in the U.K. everything was in metric. The only pounds they had were abbreviated to £ Me thinks you read a British book published in 1957.
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It gets even more complicated when you get Countries mixed up.
A ton in the UK is 2240 pounds, a hundredweight is 112 pounds and a quarter is 28.
In the US it is 2000, 100, and 25..
Unless you're in Texas, where everything is bigger.
I gave up try to explain to someone that six thirty five is the same as 25 minutes to seven, but I couldn't expect to much as she went to University.
Makes sense in metric minutes...
*too* much
"...tend to think of hours as 100 minutes."
Yeah, that's called "being stupid."
Too many people called Anonymous.
Don't know if they are correcting themselves or each other.
Just use a name, make one up, don't choose Anonymous.
I spent the entire allotted time trying to figure out what mfs means.
Closest I could get was something about mothers and incestuous behaviour, in plural.
Guess it is sort of like using an asterisk in place of one vowel in a rude word, so that the writer can feel all innocent while forcing the reader to vocalise the word in their head.
Which is a dirty trick done dirt ch**p
I would write what i think of those people but I've run out of asterisks.
Last time I was in the U.K. everything was in metric.
The only pounds they had were abbreviated to £
Me thinks you read a British book published in 1957.
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