...I was honestly expecting a topic about another fruitcake claiming the apocalypse was coming, not something actually serious. ._. Stay safe.
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I feel like just posting this will catch on and make people flip out...what have I done.
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Well, end of the world for the Americans anyone else who writes their dates as March, 14th 2015.
Anyone who writes their dates sensibly i.e. 14th of March 2015 will be fine :P
(Just a subtle dig at American date system, I have nothing against Americans in general)
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Its true, our date system is terrible.
Also 7/1/2013 > 1/7/2013.
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You are the first American who has agreed with me that the date system you use is daft.
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My teachers use to yell at me for writing it wrong, I was stubborn and told them that they were the ones that were wrong for using terrible logic. I just don't get how it goes month/day/year, hell even year/month/day would make more sense but day/month/year makes the most sense. They got even more annoyed when I explained that lmao.
Fun times.
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Only evil people write with the left hand, well thats what they thought right?
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Well, along with my stated desire to, "Watch the world burn," in this same thread, perhaps they were right. Damn, I may be the anti-crite - someone that has hate for humanity and wishes to see it die, but believes we could be redeemed by a single great act of self-eradication...er, wait, WTH was I talking about? I need games...
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You're going to be the next president of the US, so there's your chance to change all of this. ;P
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Hadn't considered that really as we (in the UK) measure in feet & inches (usually heights for clothing purposes), measure distance and speed in miles / miles per hour but then we measure stuff for 'technical' purposes, buildings, 'official' things like record distances etc. in the metric system.
It's a bit messed up using both systems but at least I can explain the basis of it... 1 inch is the length from the knuckle of your thumb to the end, 1 foot is literally the length of a human foot, 1 yard is the length from tip of middle finger with arm outstretched to the tip of your nose (quite easy to measure large bits of cloth like this in the past). Other odd units like Chains (22 yds, also the distance between cricket stumps) and furlongs / fathoms etc I can't remember the details about their pasts. But given the American population is white European settlers (originally) I can see why they ended up with the Imperial system.
And don't even ask what people were thinking with the old Imperial coinage system; pounds, shillings, pence, crowns and half-pennies. Not sure where crowns fit in at all xD
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Chains are from land surveying, I'm pretty sure. They used to use actual chains to measure distance, in lengths of 33 feet or 66 feet (22 yards).
A furlong is an eighth of a mile, and I've only ever known it to be used in horse racing.
A fathom is 6 feet and I've only known it to be used for measuring water depth.
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I knew that the fathom was for depth measurement, but didn't know where chain nor furlong came from, thanks.
I guessed that chain was literally named after a 'standard measuring chain'
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Yea but the white settler's pretty much decimated their population and way of life (and that's why I guess they American's have the Imperial system)...
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Best of luck, wish you all the best and stay safe, grab your stuff and gtfo!!
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that would be funny... if it wasn't about catastrophic fires which burns thousands, if not over a million, dollars worth of produce, causing food shortages and price hikes as well as homes being destroyed and even death which people lives have already been claimed... where i live is the last place to receive these alerts and it's nice to see you're making a pathetic joke from it...
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thanks for the warning. I live on the central coast so and had no clue about the emergency phone calls, ill make sure to keep an ear open for the phone.
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