A Call For Humor!

[jkasch]

When I was young, weed was sold as a dime bag, a lid, an ounce, a pound, and a kilo. Pretty confusing for the average stoner.

 

[Bleib]

 

[Somafunk]

PS as an immigrant and a scientist I can understand only part of the joke: what about drug dealers?

In Scotland weed/hash is generally sold in ounces and fractions of such as eighth or 3.5g, quarter or 7g, half or 14g, ounce or 28g, or a bar which is 9 ounces or 250 ish grams or 4 bars to a kg.

I personally never used imperial measurements as when growing it made much more sense to deal in grams.

 

[AdrianusG]

Baasner Turntable


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Oh. I thaught it was one of those new "compact" and experimental fusion reactors

 

[DonR]

You must have a big nose!

 

[mhardy6647]

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I would've thought that the MIT contingent would've lobbied hard to do all measurements in Smoots.

 

[Ageve]

All US citizens (I can’t stand using “Americans”) use the metric system: the US currency was one of the first to adopt it (one dollar equal 100 cents) in 1786.
PS as an immigrant and a scientist I can understand only part of the joke: what about drug dealers?

 

[mhardy6647]

Saw this on the Polk forums and thought it amusing.

Then I thought...
"Here. Hold my beer and watch this."

N.B. I particularly like the ground lift feature on the leftmost outlet manifold.

 

[FTB]

Hey guys,

And what about cars ?
I mean true cars have manual shift, right ? US cars are cars but not true cars, no ?

 

[fatoldgit]

I am from Kiwi Land (we went metric in 1968) but lived in the US from 1996 to 2010.

So I had lots of cross-cultural confusions while living there so here are a couple:

- US take home beer kegs , at least in my experience, have this push handle at the top to create pressure so you get beer out of the tap at/near the top...thus the basic concept of placing the tap at the bottom of the keg and letting gravity do its work has escaped American engineering genius

- When someone got lucky, they lucked out... which to most English speakers would mean you ran out of luck, aka were unlucky

Peter

 

[FTB]

Do you know The Kiffness ?

 

[mhardy6647]

Hey guys,

And what about cars ?
I mean true cars have manual shift, right ? US cars are cars but not true cars, no ?

My car does -- it's not, technically, a US car though. For all I know, it was made in the US. I have no idea where it was made, in point of fact.
I do know that I bought it mostly because it was just about the only reasonably priced (but not stripped to the bones) AWD with a manual transmission left on the market (in 2018-19).

I actually don't like it very much, but I do like the fact it's got a gearshift and a clutch, and I can decide what gear I want it to be in (and it's several orders of magnitude less complicated than the outrageous automatics now being used in most I/C vehicles).

 

[Timcognito]

My car does -- it's not, technically, a US car though. For all I know, it was made in the US. I have no idea where it was made, in point of fact.
I do know that I bought it mostly because it was just about the only reasonably priced (but not stripped to the bones) AWD with a manual transmission left on the market (in 2018-19).

I actually don't like it very much, but I do like the fact it's got a gearshift and a clutch, and I can decide what gear I want it to be in (and it's several orders of magnitude less complicated than the outrageous automatics now being used in most I/C vehicles).

The sticker in the drivers door pillar tells you where and when it was made and correct tire pressure too

 

[Timcognito]

 

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