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The UK exists in this weird form of using Metric and Imperial both - like, you get your petrol in liters but go to the pub for a nice pint, and make sure you keep under 35 kilometers per hour as you make a day trip to the next town which is just miles away.
Other commonwealth nations tend to do this as well.Spoiler: There's even a chart!Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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The thing that annoys me is that the UK measures speed in m/h. While I prefer SI growing up in the UK has made me all too familiar with
diabolicalImperial units.
In fact the government did a survey about 'preferred units to buy stuff in' which courted controversy because it presumed nobody would prefer metric units.
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Er, not exactly, and not that Canadian chart.
Wine is in metric, milk is in pints with metric as a translation, 6 pints = 3.408 litres (these are UK pints with 20 fluid ounces in them, I think UK fluid ounces are similar to USA ones, but I couldn't swear they are identical).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_ounce
An imperial fluid ounce is 1⁄20 of an imperial pint, 1⁄160 of an imperial gallon or exactly 28.4130625 mL.
A US customary fluid ounce is 1⁄16 of a US liquid pint and 1⁄128 of a US liquid gallon or exactly 29.5735295625 mL, making it about 4.08% larger than the imperial fluid ounce.
Body weight is in kilos if it's medical, but my old lcd home scales can do metric, stones and pounds (you don't get decimals of stones, you get pounds up to 13, and quarter pounds or half pounds if there are any of those), or USAian pounds probably because they were made in China.
Brexit has somewhat delayed the spread of metrication.
Science is almost entirely metric, but that's more or less true everywhere.Last edited by halfeye; 2024-02-29 at 03:46 AM.
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Imean, the chart is called "how to measure things like a Canadian", but I suppose I could have been more clear that that specific one is not commonwealth-wide. I imagine each country has its own idiosyncracies about it.
Virtually none of the Imperial units are identical to US Customary. It's ridiculous that we changed every one just ever so slightly!Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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About four months ago I ordered a copy of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, the reprint of course. Today it finally arrived.
It's interesting to see how different the early game was. Space Marines are still very much a secondary faction, with the Inquisition actually getting slightly more prominence.
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2024-02-29, 03:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Have you ever noticed that a lot of kids shows from the 90s and 2000s have really ****ed up "lessons" when you think about them critically?
Like, there's apparently an episode of Doug where he noticed that his bike was missing and, when he saw two other kids with it made the logical conclusion that they stole his bike and reacted as expected, IE, took it back and threatened to get the police involved...
Turns out his parents sold his bike to a thrift shop without telling him. They planned to replace it, but did not do so until after selling it, without telling him, and just seemed to expect that he wouldn't notice or mind that the old one was missing in the interim.
So in other words he um... Was right that it was stolen, just wrong about who stole it and why.
He ends the episode grounded and writing in his journal that he probably deserves it and... Excuse me?
...Then of course you have the complete failure of parenting that are the Reads from Arthur.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2024-02-29, 03:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, the Empire does keep doing things that causes the Force to send people to blow them up, and the Will of the Force is basically just the universe expressing itself, and if the universe is doing something it's basically the same as a self-caused action, right, so.. you know.. from a Certain Point of View.
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2024-02-29, 04:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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You browse Reddit, right? You ever read the stories where the writer is describing a situation and the other people come off as completely unhinged with no provocation, like someone malinesnd appointment to see someone at CPS and when they go in the receptionist threatens to call the police on them, and you just have to think there's a huge chance that the writer likely made a big scene beforehand without telling it in the story, and was not actually the paragon of calmness who just walked into a room and had a receptionist go crazy on them out of nowhere?
Anyway. I very vaguely remember that episode, so refresh me memory. Did Doug call the police, which would have resolved rhe situation since they would have (in Doug universe) simply talked to the kid who had the bike, and then talked to Doug's parents, and resolved everything fine? Or did he steal it from someone who bought it (or whose parents bought it for them)?
Because if the latter, then yeah, he deserves it. Like, ignore the law where his parents were absolutely right to sell it and it was never stolen. Just ethically, that's the entire reason you don't get to he a vigilante - because you may not know all the facts.
If he did a third thing, then I'd have to re-evaluate, of course. And that was, what, 90s? I think i rmemeber that's how it shook down but I'm readily admitting I could be wrong, that's some time there.
I hate "the will of the Force". Pure hack writing, IMO.Last edited by Peelee; 2024-02-29 at 04:21 PM.
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2024-02-29, 04:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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He's 11.
If you want to invoke "legally" in the argument, legally he can't be held responsible for his actions, as most children that age aren't fully rational, and his parents are held liable for his behavior.
That, combined with the fact that the whole incident was instigated by them selling his bike without telling him means that um...
They're the ones responsible for the events of the episode. Not Doug, who is just a child acting on the information he had available to him to the best of his ability.
Punishing him once the situation is cleared up is... Bad parenting. Good parents would own up to the fact that selling his bike without telling him, even if they ended to replace it with a new bike, was a **** move and that they should have foreseen that he'd be upset to find it missing and/or the possibility that someone in town would purchase his bike from the thrift shop before they told him what happened and he'd see someone around town with it.
....But then again, these are the people who named a baby Cleopatra Dirtbike. They might just be stupid.
Edit: The intended lesson seems to be don't jump to conclusions but in practice, it comes across as "you're wrong for being upset if your possessions go missing and you will be punished for it."Last edited by Rater202; 2024-02-29 at 04:39 PM.
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Yeah, that was my fault. I should have said something like "ignore the law" or "just ethically".
Hot take: eleven-year-olds shouldn't be stealing and should be made known that it's not ok, even if they think the circumstances made it ok. Because they're eleven.
Well, his parents were kind of contrived into not having the bike ready to go and waiting for him when they got rid of the old one, but yeah, it's just bad communication all around.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-02-29, 06:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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There was a different episode about stealing.
This one seemed to be about conclusion jumping but... You know, conclusion jumping narratives don't really work when it's a reasonable conclusion.
Maybe I'm just weird int hat I don't like seeing protagonists punished for other characters ****ups or lessons about something being tought in a bad way that punishes reasonable feelings.
Now that I think about it, I can think of another example of a similar thing.
Once in elementary school we were read a book about a boy in a small town who one day sees his teacher walking past a market stand, grab an apple, and then walk off with it without paying
And the next day, he stakes it out and sees it happen again.
So he brings his friends the next time and they come to a conclusion: Their teacher is stealing apples.
Upset that their teacher is apparently a criminal, the boy starts telling authority figures of what he and his friends saw.
This leads to a rumor being spread that the teacher steals apples...
Eventually, the teacher goes to the market stand with the kid, talks to the shopkeep, and it's clarified that the teacher has an arrangement with the shopkeep where he pays in advance and picks up an apple on his way home, which leads to a lesson about conclusion jumping and rumor spreading with the boy being punished by being made to cut a pillow in half on a windy day and then collect al the down that blew out to represent how hard it is to "clean up" a bad rumor but...
Mother****er, he saw what looked like his teacher committing a crime, confirmed what he saw was not a fluke, and then told authority figures. Is that not what kids are supposed to do in that situation? What was he supposed to do, go up to what he believes to be a crime in progress and confront the teacher then and there? Are we expected to believe that the teacher never expected someone to see him grabbing an apple form the stand and walking off and come to the logical conclusion?I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2024-02-29, 06:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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He was supposed to go talk to the shopkeeper and say 'Hey, I saw Mrs./Mr. X take an apple without paying, what's up with that?" to get clarification that the wronged party actually felt wronged before involving a number of other schoolchildren and unrelated authority figures who would need to upend the teacher's life to figure out what was going on and harm their reputation in the process.
The punishment is, of course, ridiculous but the "what was he supposed to do?' is pretty clear here.Last edited by Rynjin; 2024-02-29 at 06:33 PM.
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I thoughts i was previously clear about this, but maybe not. Let me be absolutely, incontrovertibly crystal clear.
As i recall, Doug took the bike back from the kids he thought stole it. Again, it's been decades, if I'm wrong please correct me.
Doug was not punished for believing the bicycle was stolen. Doug was not punished for feeling unsafe regarding that.. Doug was not punished for jumping to conclusions. Doug was punished for stealing the bike from the kids who had it.
Again, to be as clear as possible, the lesson was not "don't jump to conclusions" or "don't have feelings about things". The lesson was "don't take things from others".Last edited by Peelee; 2024-02-29 at 07:27 PM.
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2024-02-29, 07:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Okay, I looked up a transcript
It's not entirely a good one, lines are mostly unlabeled, but if I'm reading it correctly, what happened is that Doug called the police and reported his bike stolen, his statement was taken but otherwise, the police don't do anything other than say it was probably a kid who stole it since a burglar would have taken something more valuable, and then found the kids who had it, confronted them about stealing it, and threatened to contact the police again if they did not return what he had every reason to believe was his stolen property.
Now, the kids who had it did, in fact, say that they purchased it from a thrift store but, you know, they'd also apprently mutilated the bike so I don't think that Doug just blowing that off as a lie is unreasonable.
Ten minutes later he gets home to his parent with the replacement bike and the explanation that they gave his old bike away to a thrift store and then not a minute after that the police come down in full screaming siren mode to.. Tlk to Doug's parents about how their son has been accused of stealing a bike.
...Which is all kind of bull****. You know. Either the police are incompetent and didn't think to cross-reference the report of a kid's bike getting stolen against the report from the same day of that same kid stealing a bike or the kids he took the bike from left out almost all the details of the encounter when they filed their own report.
It gets cleared up, Doug gives the bike back, explains the situation to his parents, and then they ground him.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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