Mexico has always been in the North American continent. Central America isn't a continent it's a subregion that's wholly encompassed within North America
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Mexico has always been in the North American continent. Central America isn't a continent it's a subregion that's wholly encompassed within North America
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Great post
They let these intellectuals vote, no wonder we are up the creek with no boat never mind a paddle.When I saw this posted on FB the other day, I surely thought it was a joke. Sadly, it wasn't.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76144/why-no-one-wanted-aws-third-pound-burger
As a people, we are the dumbest in the world when it comes to Metric. Metric is the easiest thing to learn. If a person says he can’t learn Metric, what he really is saying is that he is too dumb to learn metric.
To illustrate, I have a Canadian friend who tells us dumb Americans that in Canada, they have “Metric Time”.
100 seconds to a minute.
100 minutes to an hour.
10 hours to a day.
You would be surprised how many of us dumb, stupid, lazy Americans believe him.
You can’t fix stupid.
To illustrate, I have a Canadian friend who tells us dumb Americans that in Canada, they have “Metric Time”.
100 seconds to a minute.
100 minutes to an hour.
10 hours to a day.
You would be surprised how many of us dumb, stupid, lazy Americans believe him.
You can’t fix stupid.
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Really want to get loco, ask the average "joe" where Ecuador and Guatemala are....
Yeah, but zero point eleven kilogrammer just doesn't roll off the tongue as easily.
I have a stopwatch that times in decimal minutes or decimal hours (just shows X.XXX format of minutes instead of minutes +seconds)As a people, we are the dumbest in the world when it comes to Metric. Metric is the easiest thing to learn. If a person says he can’t learn Metric, what he really is saying is that he is too dumb to learn metric.
To illustrate, I have a Canadian friend who tells us dumb Americans that in Canada, they have “Metric Time”.
100 seconds to a minute.
100 minutes to an hour.
10 hours to a day.
You would be surprised how many of us dumb, stupid, lazy Americans believe him.
You can’t fix stupid.
personally think it’s stupid but it does save a lot of time typing and tabulating
I think in the past, autism was many times written off as an unruly and mentally challenged kid who danced to their own drummer's rhythms. Today they know better.
"We'll be flying at an altitude of 540 feet at a speed of 37,000 miles per hour."
flight attendant in, "Catch Me if you Can"
Seriously: A "course" US international businessmen take before they go abroad and trash their companies' images includes instructing them not to be loud nor complain about different foods etc. A friend worked one such presentation and swore to me the material included the instruction to avoid saying, "I don't know the metric system altogether". I believe him because that's how I've heard it said all my life.
It's the ,"I can't be bothered" crowd. Way too many of them.
flight attendant in, "Catch Me if you Can"
Seriously: A "course" US international businessmen take before they go abroad and trash their companies' images includes instructing them not to be loud nor complain about different foods etc. A friend worked one such presentation and swore to me the material included the instruction to avoid saying, "I don't know the metric system altogether". I believe him because that's how I've heard it said all my life.
It's the ,"I can't be bothered" crowd. Way too many of them.
A friend's wife asked if we were driving to Hawaii...
Dont forget about Alaska!
The size of states and countries is another thing that gets messed up.
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I needed a board rough cut into four 30" long sections at the local Home Depot. The young guy "helping" me takes out his tape measure, hooks it to the end of the board, measures out to 30" and marks a line. Perfect. He lets the tape measure slide back in, and then realizes he can't hook the tape measure to the line he's just drawn. He stood there completely dumbfounded. I tell him, "All you need to do is hook it back to the end of the board and measure out to 60 inches." A slow realization crosses his face. "Then 90." A smile...he got it.
Sometimes you just need a jump start
Sometimes you just need a jump start
Speaking of Home Depot, I was there once and someone had marked the 2"x4" boards 2' X 4'. A two feet by 4 foot board would be super thick and heavy. And all for $2.
You can still get Beef Tallow at Wallyworld. Its a bit pricey but its like cooking with steak juice.
If people used their brains they would realize that you usually make out with the metric system, no one would sell a 113 gram burger. LOLAs a people, we are the dumbest in the world when it comes to Metric. Metric is the easiest thing to learn. If a person says he can’t learn Metric, what he really is saying is that he is too dumb to learn metric.
To illustrate, I have a Canadian friend who tells us dumb Americans that in Canada, they have “Metric Time”.
100 seconds to a minute.
100 minutes to an hour.
10 hours to a day.
You would be surprised how many of us dumb, stupid, lazy Americans believe him.
You can’t fix stupid.
Ah, yes grass hoppa, but you realize if he did that, the first board will be perfect. The 2nd board will be short the with of a saw cut. The third board and fourth boards will also be short the width of saw cut. A better way is the add 1/16 or 1/8 “ for each board depending on the width of the carbide insert on the blade, or else use board #1 as a template make each cut and use the template board again. Of course maybe it’s not a piano you were building.I needed a board rough cut into four 30" long sections at the local Home Depot. The young guy "helping" me takes out his tape measure, hooks it to the end of the board, measures out to 30" and marks a line. Perfect. He lets the tape measure slide back in, and then realizes he can't hook the tape measure to the line he's just drawn. He stood there completely dumbfounded. I tell him, "All you need to do is hook it back to the end of the board and measure out to 60 inches." A slow realization crosses his face. "Then 90." A smile...he got it.
Sometimes you just need a jump start
I needed a board rough cut into four 30" long sections at the local Home Depot. The young guy "helping" me takes out his tape measure, hooks it to the end of the board, measures out to 30" and marks a line. Perfect. He lets the tape measure slide back in, and then realizes he can't hook the tape measure to the line he's just drawn. He stood there completely dumbfounded. I tell him, "All you need to do is hook it back to the end of the board and measure out to 60 inches." A slow realization crosses his face. "Then 90." A smile...he got it.
Sometimes you just need a jump start
but he needs to add the saw blade thickness each time.
edit, wasn't the only one to think of that
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Ah, yes grass hoppa, but you realize if he did that, the first board will be perfect. The 2nd board will be short the with of a saw cut. The third board and fourth boards will also be short the width of saw cut. A better way is the add 1/16 or 1/8 “ for each board depending on the width of the carbide insert on the blade, or else use board #1 as a template make each cut and use the template board again. Of course maybe it’s not a piano you were building.
You both raise a fair enough point, but as I recall he couldn't measure *or* cut. I ended up with boards ~29.75", ~30.25" - you get the point. I wasn't going to tackle the concept of saw blade thickness with this fella.
I was building a quick platform for my mother's easy chair to raise it up a couple of inches - not quite a piano
, but it did the job.
