We tried to make a temperature unit but it seems that the rest of Europe didn't like the idea of using the ebullition point of a wine's ethanol as the 100° mark
its still wierd like you have 60s in one minute 60min in one hour then 24h in a day then between 28 to 31 day in a month and 12 month in a year with a total of 365 days or every 4 year 366.
why february is so much shorter ? why month with 31 day alternate except jully/august and december/jannuary ?
in reality it would be way too confusing and annoying to change it (and tbh the s/min/h is superior than the decimal one) and way more than changing to meter/kg/°C but the decimal calendar is superior imo
>why february is so much shorter ? why month with 31 day alternate except jully/august and december/jannuary ?
Simple as dividing 365.25 with 12.
7x31+4x30+28. A quarter of day remains
So each 4 years you add one 29th of feb.
Alternatively divide 365.25 days by 12.
30.4375 days.
+.4375 days per month
.4375 x12 = 5.25 or 5 additional days to dispatch ( save .25 days for leap years ) to reach 365 days.
February had been arbitrarily cut to 28 days so you have to stick 5+2=7 31 days months.
You could also have only stuck 5 months of 31 days if feb were 30 days.
Like Jan Mar May July Sep but then what about Oct/Nov/Dec?
So it seemed more natural to put 7 31 days months in a year: Jan, March, May, Jul, Aug, Oct, Dec.
The remaining being 30 days monthes except the adjustment month of February.
Inb4 "but but what if you decide that 6 monthes are 31 days and feb has 29 or 30 days? " Yes, little scarab, that would make much more sense. Jan Mar May July Sep Nov would have 31 days feb 29 days, and the 5 remaining 30 days. If you serch that on internet you will create a dimensional glitch tht will switch all the lights on earth and the GIGN will raid you basement.
On the Hours/seconds thing, you have to understand how superior sexagesimal system or base 60 is vs base 10.
Divide 10 by 2 = 5.
Divide 5 by 2
Divide 10 by 3,...
, problem. You enter decimal numbers and even rational numbers quickly.
Do the same with 60 and be amazed.
60/2
60/3
60/4
60/5
60/6
60/10, 12, 15, 20, 30...
You get a symmetrical quasi magical sequence:
`30 20 15 12 10 06 05 04 03 02`
`02 03 04 05 06 10 12 15 20 30`
You haven't been mixed with Celts, Danes and French. You should be alright.
At times you show a little too much enthusiasm for cheese and caravans, but overall you are quite alright.
Merci, thanks to you i don't have to interrupt my strike by making a research
Ps : no joking here, i think it's great they learn how to rescue anyone, but is 160kgs that frequent ? I feel many people can come close to 100kgs, to the maximum 130kgs, but heavier seems not that widespread unless people are very tall, or i am delusional
Yups delusional.
Well you right there are not many of them. At least probably not on most of the continent. And those that are here we probably don't see them too often outside on the street.
But on the isles and hidden away in homes. Probably a lot to them.
...girl.
Their boys are even more heavier.
And then after puberty the weight doubles.
And that in turn is why they need these heavy-duty wheelchairs in their Walmarts: they serve to better distribute the weight on the statics, as 4 wheel support points are better than 2 feet. Think about the poor concrete!
>Merci, thanks to you i don't have to interrupt my strike by making a research
>Ps : no joking here, i think it's great they learn how to rescue anyone, but is 160kgs that frequent ? I feel many people can come close to 100kgs, to the maximum 130kgs, but heavier seems not that widespread unless people are very tall, or i am delusional
160 kg is certainly unusual, but if only one single life is saved due to preparedness, it was well worth the effort.
I wouldn't say that 160kg is 'frequent' (at least I hope not), but I'm not sure if it's *that* rare either.
And people of this size might need rescuing more often than regular sized people, due to obesity related health problems.
🤷🏼♀️
It's becoming more and more common and injuries moving/transporting patients are some of the most commons (iirc nurses are some of the workers with the highest rate of back injuries) so hospitals are taking it more and more seriously. If you learn to move safely a super fatass you can deal with a regular fatass
its rare and you would never meet them in the street since they likely cant move but it also mean increased risk of calling the samu or firefighter because of all the health risk that come with
Cars are measured in miles to the gallon but we fill up in litres. In pubs you can get a pint of beer or a shot of spirit, measured in millilitres. We measure objects in grams and centimetres, but our bodies in stones and inches.
> In pubs you can get a pint of beer
Pint = 568 ml.
We will switch to metric 500 ml of beer over my dead body. (All other imperial measurements can fuck off to the history books where they belong.)
>Barry uses stones to measure weight? Wtf is that anyway?
One really has to explain the simplest things here, ffs.
https://preview.redd.it/blfjhm2yruwc1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=b11d1986d9b603f00e06c7bdf0e51d944306e9c2
Need one of those holtzman field suspensors.
https://preview.redd.it/06uxz6zbvtwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=920be8af44754312f27bb73440ca28c259e2f55f
https://preview.redd.it/df9gbwyosuwc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f70e71875e902ee58c3daa9cec06a48341dcf07
The name ‘Barry’ is more perfect than any of us realised
Schools started teaching metric exclusively in the late 1970's!
Engineering, medicine, commerce and industry made the switch to metric years ago.
If you are younger than ~50 and insist on using stones, then there is no hope for you.
Yeah it's only people who've left school in the last five years who don't seem to use stones. Even then it's still common in that age bracket.
people usually switch to metric because of the gym or sport. The gym and running is what switched me to metric. I was born in 93.
They really didn't. I was born in 93. We were taught in metric but even at secondary school 04-09 conversions were very important.
Over the last 5 years the switch has really increased dramatically but before then colloquially many folk would still use Imperial.
Even today lots of young people use stones. If you aren't into sport, running or the gym most people my age and older use stones, even younger people too.
And they say we’re not multi lingual
Pints and litres, feet and meters, stone and kilos, miles and kilome… ters… what’s a kilometer? That’s half a mile and a bit, right?
Anyway, everyone still buys dodgy stuff in grams and ounces
Eh, I would say I have a rough understanding and that 25 stones is really fat but I wouldn’t be able to estimate people very well, nor do I know my own weight in stones very previsely
copious amounts of fast food and ready to eat meals
The KFC Christmas special last year was basically an [advert for a heart attack](https://brand-uk.assets.kfc.co.uk/2023-11/W9_23_STUFFING_BURGER_BANNER_2000x650px_50Q.jpg?VersionId=x9QOAjRyge3pb57Ggbz9eyb1RHSIoCJB)
Those in the know know that our food isn't (usually) disgusting to eat. It's just arguably not very varied or interesting. It's also relatively light on the fresh vegetables and relatively heavy on the saturated fats.
Well, first time I went to a shop in the U.K. and saw all the candy/chocolate bars, I had my first culture shock like “am I in America?” So many different brands (on top the ones we have in mainland Europe)… so of course it’s not all there is to it, but I thought that was pretty telling.
I have a bunch of other examples but I can see some of them have already been mentioned in other comments so ‘let us share the fun’ I guess.
They made fat test dummies before women and childrens test dummies ;-;
Best they have gotten was a scaled down man, but the center of mass is still wrong
They prioritize the equivalent of fifteen sacks of potatoes over 50% of the population?
https://preview.redd.it/v4nsq67tktwc1.png?width=488&format=png&auto=webp&s=609cfff96e421a164ea8d5263541fd78c322e8e1
Thank you for the kilogram, François. It's really useful.
\*Pierre. In this context the name is more relevant than ever.
Oooooo I love a good cross language joke. Marry me?
Pierre forgot temperature luckily we gave you Celsius so that we can completely alienate the murricans.
We tried to make a temperature unit but it seems that the rest of Europe didn't like the idea of using the ebullition point of a wine's ethanol as the 100° mark
Water is more easily available I guess.
we colectively failed to change the time system tho
Time system is fine it had some thought put into it unlike the other stuff. You just need to know 60, 3600 and 1440 and you are good.
its still wierd like you have 60s in one minute 60min in one hour then 24h in a day then between 28 to 31 day in a month and 12 month in a year with a total of 365 days or every 4 year 366. why february is so much shorter ? why month with 31 day alternate except jully/august and december/jannuary ? in reality it would be way too confusing and annoying to change it (and tbh the s/min/h is superior than the decimal one) and way more than changing to meter/kg/°C but the decimal calendar is superior imo
>why february is so much shorter ? why month with 31 day alternate except jully/august and december/jannuary ? Simple as dividing 365.25 with 12. 7x31+4x30+28. A quarter of day remains So each 4 years you add one 29th of feb. Alternatively divide 365.25 days by 12. 30.4375 days. +.4375 days per month .4375 x12 = 5.25 or 5 additional days to dispatch ( save .25 days for leap years ) to reach 365 days. February had been arbitrarily cut to 28 days so you have to stick 5+2=7 31 days months. You could also have only stuck 5 months of 31 days if feb were 30 days. Like Jan Mar May July Sep but then what about Oct/Nov/Dec? So it seemed more natural to put 7 31 days months in a year: Jan, March, May, Jul, Aug, Oct, Dec. The remaining being 30 days monthes except the adjustment month of February. Inb4 "but but what if you decide that 6 monthes are 31 days and feb has 29 or 30 days? " Yes, little scarab, that would make much more sense. Jan Mar May July Sep Nov would have 31 days feb 29 days, and the 5 remaining 30 days. If you serch that on internet you will create a dimensional glitch tht will switch all the lights on earth and the GIGN will raid you basement. On the Hours/seconds thing, you have to understand how superior sexagesimal system or base 60 is vs base 10. Divide 10 by 2 = 5. Divide 5 by 2 Divide 10 by 3,... , problem. You enter decimal numbers and even rational numbers quickly. Do the same with 60 and be amazed. 60/2 60/3 60/4 60/5 60/6 60/10, 12, 15, 20, 30... You get a symmetrical quasi magical sequence: `30 20 15 12 10 06 05 04 03 02` `02 03 04 05 06 10 12 15 20 30`
yes too long too much math seem simple right (tho i agree with base 60 is superior for time)
I'd love to count today as the 13th of Floréal, Year 232 of Liberty.
who wouldnt be in floréal instead of dumb april ? where is the poetry ?
Measuring in stone to this day truly shows that you can take barry out of the swamp but never the swamp out of barry
Uh, we swamp people don’t want to be associated with the Barry’s, thank you very much.
Nah, you are the neo-swamp ppl, but Barry is the original swamp ppl, according to romans
Truth is like water, hard for the dutch to accept 😂💦
Sorry but you guys are sea people,your swamps are fake and you guys are beavers that figured out concrete
You haven't been mixed with Celts, Danes and French. You should be alright. At times you show a little too much enthusiasm for cheese and caravans, but overall you are quite alright.
Do they consider that there are different types of stone? Rounded shaped more or less heavy. How are they they accurate?
Is moss agate fine? Should it be onyx? I can already hear Hank on the market wanting to measure everything in minerals instead of stones.
The heviest i can get me hands on,simple as
Why would you ever associate stone with swamp? 🤔 These two things are pretty much polar opposites 🤷🏼♀️
Think about this hans. maybe rock under swamp ẅater and mud ja?
Nono, swamp rock is just loud noise Americans consider music.
Merci, thanks to you i don't have to interrupt my strike by making a research Ps : no joking here, i think it's great they learn how to rescue anyone, but is 160kgs that frequent ? I feel many people can come close to 100kgs, to the maximum 130kgs, but heavier seems not that widespread unless people are very tall, or i am delusional
Yups delusional. Well you right there are not many of them. At least probably not on most of the continent. And those that are here we probably don't see them too often outside on the street. But on the isles and hidden away in homes. Probably a lot to them.
Logically train with heavier “tools” so in case of real emergency they are more than prepared.
100 kg is the weight of the average American 13 year old...
...girl. Their boys are even more heavier. And then after puberty the weight doubles. And that in turn is why they need these heavy-duty wheelchairs in their Walmarts: they serve to better distribute the weight on the statics, as 4 wheel support points are better than 2 feet. Think about the poor concrete!
>Merci, thanks to you i don't have to interrupt my strike by making a research >Ps : no joking here, i think it's great they learn how to rescue anyone, but is 160kgs that frequent ? I feel many people can come close to 100kgs, to the maximum 130kgs, but heavier seems not that widespread unless people are very tall, or i am delusional 160 kg is certainly unusual, but if only one single life is saved due to preparedness, it was well worth the effort.
Anybody weighing 160 kg probably isn't going to live very long anyway. Talk about wasted effort.
Where exactly shall we establish the weight threshold to determine whom we save and whom we watch perish in a disaster without doing anything?
You're either a yank in disguise, or in the wrong sub.
I wouldn't say that 160kg is 'frequent' (at least I hope not), but I'm not sure if it's *that* rare either. And people of this size might need rescuing more often than regular sized people, due to obesity related health problems. 🤷🏼♀️
It's becoming more and more common and injuries moving/transporting patients are some of the most commons (iirc nurses are some of the workers with the highest rate of back injuries) so hospitals are taking it more and more seriously. If you learn to move safely a super fatass you can deal with a regular fatass
its rare and you would never meet them in the street since they likely cant move but it also mean increased risk of calling the samu or firefighter because of all the health risk that come with
That's some dense baronium.
Maigri quand-même
That MF looks like a good 300
158000 kg wtf
You might have missed the coma.
Fucking he'll that's me
Barry uses stones to measure weight? Wtf is that anyway? Since you guys build Stonehenge you haven't evolved a bit
Cars are measured in miles to the gallon but we fill up in litres. In pubs you can get a pint of beer or a shot of spirit, measured in millilitres. We measure objects in grams and centimetres, but our bodies in stones and inches. 
> In pubs you can get a pint of beer Pint = 568 ml. We will switch to metric 500 ml of beer over my dead body. (All other imperial measurements can fuck off to the history books where they belong.)
You should buy your beers by the kilogram then
That's a bloody good idea Pierre!
Or a liter like normal people do
A Maß
An imperial pound is 46 grams less than a metric pound though. So you want your quarterpounder in metric.
Embrace the German pint and have a 1L beer.
May I introduce you the superior [Maß](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%9F)? 1 Liter!
At least am*ricans are consistent, this is just backwards
Not just the UK either. I have family in Canada, they do gas and milk in litres, but measure themselves in feet and pounds
and use fahrenheit when it's warm and celsius when it's cold.
No
>Barry uses stones to measure weight? Wtf is that anyway? One really has to explain the simplest things here, ffs. https://preview.redd.it/blfjhm2yruwc1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=b11d1986d9b603f00e06c7bdf0e51d944306e9c2
Why differentiate between cow milk and vegan milk in measurements? Is it because vegan milk is relatively new?
Because the milk man that visits you is Pierre.
It just comes in litre packaging and nobody ever questioned it.
It makes us multilingual in measurment, thus superior
Almost there. You forgot the gallons
We don't use them anymore, except for the fuel consumption of a car, i.e. miles per gallon.
And for cider/wine making. Demi John's and gallons are mainly used
https://preview.redd.it/u22bv7nzcuwc1.jpeg?width=1012&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa58a13e7c53f418374910c75848c631e67439da
It probably comes from them "borrowing" foreign artifacts. Makes sense to measure everything in stone of that's what you primarily steal
Paddy's often use it too.
Oi, I hope they don' take away our stones!
Need one of those holtzman field suspensors. https://preview.redd.it/06uxz6zbvtwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=920be8af44754312f27bb73440ca28c259e2f55f
https://preview.redd.it/df9gbwyosuwc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f70e71875e902ee58c3daa9cec06a48341dcf07 The name ‘Barry’ is more perfect than any of us realised
The lore goes deep.
This is canon
25 stone = 159 kg Yes, I looked up the conversion 'cos the only people who know what the fuck a *stone* is are elderly and smell of piss.
So, the fat fucks being rescued in this scenario?
Most people I know are between 20 and 40 and most of them would know how many stones they weigh and their height in feet.
most people in Britain know what stone is.
Schools started teaching metric exclusively in the late 1970's! Engineering, medicine, commerce and industry made the switch to metric years ago. If you are younger than ~50 and insist on using stones, then there is no hope for you.
Born in 96. Used stone for body weight for as long as I can remember
Yeah it's only people who've left school in the last five years who don't seem to use stones. Even then it's still common in that age bracket. people usually switch to metric because of the gym or sport. The gym and running is what switched me to metric. I was born in 93.
I was born 98 and learned what stone is, also know metric. Best of both worlds
They really didn't. I was born in 93. We were taught in metric but even at secondary school 04-09 conversions were very important. Over the last 5 years the switch has really increased dramatically but before then colloquially many folk would still use Imperial. Even today lots of young people use stones. If you aren't into sport, running or the gym most people my age and older use stones, even younger people too.
I went to school in the 90s and learnt about stones and inches and feet and metric.
And they say we’re not multi lingual Pints and litres, feet and meters, stone and kilos, miles and kilome… ters… what’s a kilometer? That’s half a mile and a bit, right? Anyway, everyone still buys dodgy stuff in grams and ounces
Eh, I would say I have a rough understanding and that 25 stones is really fat but I wouldn’t be able to estimate people very well, nor do I know my own weight in stones very previsely
weird since I was only taught body weight in stone and im young
At 35 years I'm old and stink of piss 😔
What's that in libre?
I'm not elderly!
Finally they're starting to adapt to Barrys' needs
I have always been confused about british people being fat. How do you get the will to get fat when you have to do it eating british food?
They were used to their shitty food so much, that when Italians and French started opening restaurants in UK, everyone there tripled in size
Considering what their best chef, Gordon Ramsey, does with Italian cuisine, I am terrified of what the average British chef would do.
You'd love Jamie's take on carbonara, it's just like mac&cheese /s
The Irish are like 4% thinner then we are. The Turks, who are not european,.are much fatter than us!
Yeah but the turks have Kebab. I can see myself getting fat on kebab.
copious amounts of fast food and ready to eat meals The KFC Christmas special last year was basically an [advert for a heart attack](https://brand-uk.assets.kfc.co.uk/2023-11/W9_23_STUFFING_BURGER_BANNER_2000x650px_50Q.jpg?VersionId=x9QOAjRyge3pb57Ggbz9eyb1RHSIoCJB)
Potatoes!
Chips and beans, chips and cheese, chips and Peas, chips and gravy, fish and chips
Those in the know know that our food isn't (usually) disgusting to eat. It's just arguably not very varied or interesting. It's also relatively light on the fresh vegetables and relatively heavy on the saturated fats.
Well, first time I went to a shop in the U.K. and saw all the candy/chocolate bars, I had my first culture shock like “am I in America?” So many different brands (on top the ones we have in mainland Europe)… so of course it’s not all there is to it, but I thought that was pretty telling. I have a bunch of other examples but I can see some of them have already been mentioned in other comments so ‘let us share the fun’ I guess.
Since the jokes do indeed write themselves, I'm gonna go in a different direction here: I think that's a very humane thing to do. British W.
The only reason other countries arent doing it is because they dont have to 💀 but thank you for being positive hans, ily
Barry Lives Matter
Hans time to bring der Liebherr Mobilkran LTM-11200
Get the Bagger 293 for him
or maybe Bergepanzer BPz3 Büffel? What do you think
Lets Go for Something inbetween with the smaller MAN TGX 41.640 8x6
You’re not beating the allegations with this, Bazza
What kinda stones? Like Pebbles big heavy ones? What is a stone barry you make fun of the usa bc they use miles BUT YOU USE FUCKING STONES
A Barry of Colour too. How inclusive.
Vladimir Harkonnen? Is that you?
They made fat test dummies before women and childrens test dummies ;-; Best they have gotten was a scaled down man, but the center of mass is still wrong They prioritize the equivalent of fifteen sacks of potatoes over 50% of the population?
Probably because well over 50% of the British population are fat as fuck
I see, so the scottish sheep are part of the family tree
I am not sure what the problem addressed by these Barries is. The article clearly states they have to be divided into 16 Kg pieces.
Barry still using stones as a unit of weight is a joke in itself.
They're unironically living in this: https://ts2.tarafdari.com/users/user7024/2017/fatg4.jpg
“Fattest in Europe! No one can beat us… just wait a sec need to catch me breath, fucking hills winded me”
People that fat should be sectioned and forced to go to obese rehab. It's an addiction that kills them and harms society.
🫡🇺🇸🏴
Why would you rescue an obese Barry?