Friday Funnies

[mike carey]

As for the Antepode Region @mike carey is probably old enough to remember Imperial System units from his childhood as Australia went metric in 1966 although maybe not enough to actually use them.

Lol, in 1966 we changed our currency to decimal, but it wasn't until 1974 that we went metric. I still have some rulers that are 12 inches long. Oh, and I still remember when peoples' weight was measured in stones (14 pounds).

[+ azdr0710]

piece of trivia.....Interstate 19, between Tucson and the international border at Nogales, is the only US highway signed in metric.....it was built during the peak of the metric craze (remember that??!!) and planners were thinking ahead!!.....now, nearly 45 years later, the signs remain in place

 

 

[+ Gar1eth]

Thanks for the info about Myanmar. I didn't know that. Actually the U.K. is a mishmash. Look at RM ads. I'll bet you see many (?most) of the UK escorts from the U.K. quote their tallywacker sizes in inches. I've also read that while petrol is dispensed in liters (or litres if you prefer) that engine efficiency is still in miles per gallon. And there are other places the Imperial system still holds sway.

 

As for the Antepode Region @mike carey is probably old enough to remember Imperial System units from his childhood as Australia went metric in 1966 although maybe not enough to actually use them. He and his classmates probably had to throw out all their old wooden rulers. What a waste!!

 

Gman

Lol, in 1966 we changed our currency to decimal, but it wasn't until 1974 that we went metric. I still have some rulers that are 12 inches long. Oh, and I still remember when peoples' weight was measured in stones (14 pounds).

 

Thanks for the clarification. I googled Australian metrification, but I only skimmed the article and came up with 1966. I shoud have read further. ?

 

From Wikipedia-

 

"Metrication in Australia effectively began in 1966 with the conversion to decimal currency under the auspices of the Decimal Currency Board. The conversion of measurements—metrication—commenced subsequently in 1971, under the direction of the Metric Conversion Board and actively proceeded until the Board was disbanded in 1981."

 

Gman

[AceHardware]

Well, the USA did somehow adapt to the 2-liter/litre bottle of soda/pop without Communists taking over, so maybe we can continue inching metering our way toward the metric system.

[mike carey]

piece of trivia.....Interstate 19, between Tucson and the international border at Nogales, is the only US highway signed in metric.....it was built during the peak of the metric craze (remember that??!!) and planners were thinking ahead!!.....now, nearly 45 years later, the signs remain in place

 

 

You know you've definitively gone metric when the distances are in kilometres but there is just the number and no 'km' label after it on the road signs.

[Guest]

You know you've definitively gone metric when the distances are in kilometres but there is just the number and no 'km' label after it on the road signs.

Maybe the Canadians aren't quite there yet? (Though, to be honest, they don't put km on most of their signs)

[+ Gar1eth]

 

Gman

[RealAvalon]

You know you've definitively gone metric when the distances are in kilometres but there is just the number and no 'km' label after it on the road signs.

Not often, but occasionally if I'm really not paying attention to being out of the country, I've found myself driving 60 and people are just whizzing by me. And I remember ... oh that's 100 down here

[+ Gar1eth]

Not often, but occasionally if I'm really not paying attention to being out of the country, I've found myself driving 60 and people are just whizzing by me. And I remember ... oh that's 100 down here

 

Where are you at?

 

Gman

[+ pitman]

When it all just gets to be too much......

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXJJUQlCAcA

[RealAvalon]

When it all just gets to be too much......

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXJJUQlCAcA

One thing that I always notice in the USA are advertisements for prescription drugs. We don't have those in Canada. There're ads for over the counter stuff - allergy medications etc. - but for prescription drugs. None.

[+ pitman]

One thing that I always notice in the USA are advertisements for prescription drugs. We don't have those in Canada. There're ads for over the counter stuff - allergy medications etc. - but for prescription drugs. None.

You probably also have less need for Phucumol.

[RealAvalon]

You probably also have less need for Phucumol.

But it would be funny seeing bus loads of USA seniors crossing the Canadian border looking for it

[+ Gar1eth]

One thing that I always notice in the USA are advertisements for prescription drugs. We don't have those in Canada. There're ads for over the counter stuff - allergy medications etc. - but for prescription drugs. None.

 

We didn't used to when I was growing up Looking it up the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) allowed them in 1997.

 

Gman

[+ Gar1eth]

 

Gman

[mike carey]

[MEDIA=twitter]1285754717981732864[/MEDIA]

[+ Gar1eth]

[MEDIA=twitter]1285754717981732864[/MEDIA]

 

Over my head!!

 

Gman

[mike carey]

Over my head!!

 

Gman

Binary numbers are base 2 rather than base 10. Binary numbers only have two options for the digits used, 1 and 0, rather than the ten (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0) that can be used in base 10. In a binary number, from the right, the digits are ones, twos, fours, eights and so on not ones, 10s, 100s and 1000s. The number '10' used in the tweet is a visual pun, because we automatically read it as 'ten'. '10' as a binary number is two. (11 is three, 100 is four, 1000 is eight.) So, the tweet is playing on the ambiguity created by the base of the number not being stated. If you had assumed it was in base 2 rather than base 10 (or any other base) it would have read as, 'There are two types of people ...'

[+ Gar1eth]

Binary numbers are base 2 rather than base 10. Binary numbers only have two options for the digits used, 1 and 0, rather than the ten (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0) that can be used in base 10. In a binary number, from the right, the digits are ones, twos, fours, eights and so on not ones, 10s, 100s and 1000s. The number '10' used in the tweet is a visual pun, because we automatically read it as 'ten'. '10' as a binary number is two. (11 is three, 100 is four, 1000 is eight.) So, the tweet is playing on the ambiguity created by the base of the number not being stated. If you had assumed it was in base 2 rather than base 10 (or any other base) it would have read as, 'There are two types of people ...'

 

I understand what binary is. It was the pun part I didn't get.

 

Gman

[RealAvalon]

[MEDIA=twitter]1285754717981732864[/MEDIA]

There's another joke with Roman numbers circulating. A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers, to order five beer.

[+ poolboy48220]

 

Gman

This is the premise of a new showing starting on CBS All Access August 9, "Star Trek: Lower Decks". A comedy focusing more about the support crew than the command crew. The trailer has one crewmember assigned to "Holodeck cleanup", and another crewmember says "That's Klingon prison stuff!" I'm looking forward to it. I'm fond of the "Lower Decks" episode of Next Generation, focusing on four junior crew members; in no small part influenced by one of the junior crew members is played by Dan Gauthier...

[wsc]

I was always taught there are only three kinds of people in the world, those who count and those who don't.

[KrisParr]

Dickmatize - forgot how funny this is - an oldie, but goodie

 

[KrisParr]

Two retired gay gentlemen, residents at the local nursing home were having a conversation on the porch.

Saul: Okay, Abe, we’re both in our 90’s - do you still get horny?

Abe: Hell yes, I do.

Saul: So what do you do about it?

Abe: I suck a lifesaver.

Saul: (ponders a moment) Who drives you to the beach?

[+ Gar1eth]

Dickmatize - forgot how funny this is - an oldie, but goodie

 

 

I wonder what the casting notice for this looked like?

 

gman