Mimi - Ch. 171 - Lipstick.

[luigiymario2]

Based lmao, metric system forever 💜

 

[JethroBodine]

Especially as in american football their foot enter in contact with the ball a very underwheming number of time in the course of a match compared to the other type of football where you use your feet to handle it almost all the time, so calling it football seems way more justified...

Make you wonder why it isn't called holdball, throwball or armorball...

Spoiler: Or...

Or Rugby for pussies

Blame the British. They thought it would be cool in the 19th century to shorten AsSOCiation Football and add -er at the end.

 

[MisterMemeDaddy]

So if my translation skills are up to snuff I think it’s about 1/2 an asparagus stalk long and it covers about 3/4 Wales latitudinally.

 

[Trevoga]

how does it feel that this creature is smarter than you, americans?

 

[LarousseBR]

Eerr... Translate your metric system, please!?

 

[KevinMagnum]

An American football field is about 300ft×160ft, which translates to 91.44m×48.8m = 4462.272m^2
An association football field is about 105m×68m = 7140m^2.
An NHL hockey rink is about 200ft×85ft, which translates to 60.96m×25.5m = 1554.48m^2

12×7140/4462.272 = 19.2
12×1554.48/4462.272 = 4.18

So, in fish 'n' chips, about 19 of those lipsticks can cover an association football field; and in poutine, about four of those lipsticks can cover a hockey rink.

 

[DIMOHA25]

Very true.

Dozens are lowkey the worst of the three mentioned. Inch ~= 2,5 cm, football field ~= 100x50 m, simple. And then there's the dozen, insidiously replacing the superior tens in colloquial everyday use.

 

[Me]

Blame the British. They thought it would be cool in the 19th century to shorten AsSOCiation Football and add -er at the end.

The history of football descendants is kinda wild, especially with how certain everyone is that their favorite variant of gridiron or association is the actual original game.

At least the rugby football folks are cool about it.

 

[Jatopian]

The story of why the USA didn't adopt the metric system when most countries did is mildly amusing, but it's past time for them to move past the grudge.

kids in the us eat 9 mm every day

I'm pretty sure someone that fat can put away more than 9 m&m. Probably even a whole package of 'em.

 

[nathan67003]

BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED

 

[SoyYoJoder]

We all mock americans for using freedom units... but what about their atrocious date format??

Europe: DD/MM/YYYY from smaller to bigger. Ok.

Asia: YYYY/MM/DD alright its just the reverse, still makes sense.

USA: MM/DD/YYYY Why?

 

[Narf]

An American football field is about 300ft×160ft, which translates to 91.44m×48.8m = 4462.272m^2
An association football field is about 105m×68m = 7140m^2.
An NHL hockey rink is about 200ft×85ft, which translates to 60.96m×25.5m = 1554.48m^2

12×7140/4462.272 = 19.2
12×1554.48/4462.272 = 4.18

So, in fish 'n' chips, about 19 of those lipsticks can cover an association football field; and in poutine, about four of those lipsticks can cover a hockey rink.

Your handegg field doesn't have an end zone and thus can't have touchdowns or field goals. The length should be 109.73m.
Also worth noting that your size for the football field is merely what FIFA recommends to use. Unlike handegg, the field of play does not actually have fixed dimensions, just a range of length and width that they have to fall into.

 

[LordZero]

Sorry I don't speak burger. I don't care how many washing machines it weights nor how school buses long it's supposed to be.

Use the fucking International System of Units, there is a reason why it exists come on. You can't even multiply your units consistently that's why you use bananas instead. Can't it be like 12 cms or 250 grams for once ?

 

[LordZero]

We all mock americans for using freedom units... but what about their atrocious date format??

Europe: DD/MM/YYYY from smaller to bigger. Ok.

Asia: YYYY/MM/DD alright its just the reverse, still makes sense.

USA: MM/DD/YYYY Why?

That's how it is in any country in the american continent besides the US. I mean why would anyone put the month first come on. I still remember when I was a child and the release of a game wasn't in May 10th but October 5th like the fuck I was so distressed I had even saved for it with my lunch money for months.

Also why the hell is a billion, a thousand million and not a million million like it should logically be ? For a long time I thought that the earth and the universe was orders of magnitude older than it is. It's only 4600 million years old, not like 460.000.000. Damn you murica !!

 

[JethroBodine]

We all mock americans for using freedom units... but what about their atrocious date format??

Europe: DD/MM/YYYY from smaller to bigger. Ok.

Asia: YYYY/MM/DD alright its just the reverse, still makes sense.

USA: MM/DD/YYYY Why?

MM/DD/YYYY is smaller to bigger if you look at maximum allowed numbers.

There are a maximum of 12 months. 31 is maximum number of days. Years are infinite. 12/31/Infinity is smaller to larger.

 

[JethroBodine]

Also why the hell is a billion, a thousand million and not a million million like it should logically be ? For a long time I thought that the earth and the universe was orders of magnitude older than it is. It's only 4600 million years old, not like 460.000.000. Damn you murica !!

I'm not sure why they decided to use multiplication but one thousand multiplied by one million is a billion.

Now one thing we do that I can't stand is how some tell time.

"What time is it?"
"Half past the hour."
What fucking hour?! Just say that it's 11:30!

 

[hawkflights]

Even American astronauts prefer the metric system

The US space program has had at least one measurement fail.

 

[Sparda119]

Reading everyone fighting to defend what system is right knowing this is exactly what the author wanted

 

[OnewingedMasios]

100F sounds more correct than 37.7C when you deal with summer in the south. 37.7 is too low to accurately convey that plastic trash cans outside are melting.

Not really. When I see "it is 38 outside" I go "holy crap ot is blistering" and then realise they meant Fahrenheit and have 0 context of what that means and need look it up so that is just entirely your bias from growing up with it

 

[OnewingedMasios]

I'm not sure why they decided to use multiplication but one thousand multiplied by one million is a billion.

Now one thing we do that I can't stand is how some tell time.

"What time is it?"
"Half past the hour."
What fucking hour?! Just say that it's 11:30!

They talking about long vs short numbers. In america it goes

1. Thousand
2. Million
3. Billion
4. Trillion
5. Quadrillion
6. etc

While long numbers (used in a lot of european languages) is

1. Thousand
2. Million
3. Millard
4. Billion
5. Billard
6. Etc

though it kinda just ignores other systems also exist like in korean and japanese we use base 4 instead of base three which basically looks like this

1. 1000 (천 | 千)
2. 1,0000 (만 | 万)
3. 10,0000 (10만 | 10万)
4. 100,0000 (100만 | 100万)
5. 1000,0000 (1,000만 | 1,000万)
6. 1,0000,0000 (억 | 億)
7. 10,0000,0000 (10억 | 10億)
8. 100,0000,0000 (100억 | 100億)
9. 1000,0000,0000 (1000억 | 1000億)
10. 1,0000,0000,0000 (조 | 兆)

Instead of how the west does it with

1. 1 000 (thousand)
2. 10 000 (ten thousand)
3. 100 000 (100 thousand)
4. 1 000 000 (million)
5. 10 000 000 (10 million)
6. 100 000 000 (100 million)
7. 1 000 000 000 (1 billion/1 millard)
8. 10 000 000 000 (10 billion/10 millard)
9. 100 000 000 000 (100 billion/100millard)
10. 1 000 000 000 000 (trillion/billard)