to be fair, the local shop sets the stop at 30", slides the board against it, cuts, slides board to stop, cuts etc... always as good as the stop was set, which is less off than a tape measure can detect.
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Which is larger? A 6 slice Pizza or an 8 slice Pizza?
I like the 6 slice pizzas, I can't eat 8.
It's more like 50 countries now.
My local Braum's didn't adjust the way they were cooked for nearly a year, which resulted in dry flavorless patties.
Heck, Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA) thought there would be a risk of Guam capsizing if we stationed too many troops there.
Reminds me of several years ago, my office was right next to the boss's race car shop. His 21 year old kid was in there building something and we were helping him. I asked him to go measure a panel and he comes back to me.
'it was 22 inches one half and a quarter'
Whaaa? Ohh, ok, you mean 3/4?
*blank stare*
'it was 22 inches one half and a quarter'
Whaaa? Ohh, ok, you mean 3/4?
*blank stare*
I was guilty of not knowing:
Egypt is in Africa. (I watched to many Tarzan movies I guess).
I measured something for an 'old timer' once and I said, "it's about 2 feet, 6 inches"
He told me, "I don't want an about, I want a measurement"
I always remembered that and never made that mistake again.
Note: His name was Matt.
When living in Kentucky, I was once once having a discussion about travel, with the lab technicians that worked for me. I explained that next time I traveled to my home state of Utah, I was considering taking the I-40 route, as I had never went that way. I explained that I hadn't been in New Mexico since I was a young boy, and stood on Four Corners.
One of my lab tech's said that he didn't know how I would go through New Mexico on I-40, as New Mexico was in the country of Mexico. I stated that no, it borders Mexico, but it is a state in the United States. The other two lab tech's joined in and also explained that I was wrong, and the first lab tech was correct about New Mexico being in Mexico.
At first I thought that they were just having some fun with me. But I soon realized that they were dead serious. I had to pull it up on Google Maps and show them.
One of my lab tech's said that he didn't know how I would go through New Mexico on I-40, as New Mexico was in the country of Mexico. I stated that no, it borders Mexico, but it is a state in the United States. The other two lab tech's joined in and also explained that I was wrong, and the first lab tech was correct about New Mexico being in Mexico.
At first I thought that they were just having some fun with me. But I soon realized that they were dead serious. I had to pull it up on Google Maps and show them.
The kerf of the blade didn't matter to him. He was looking for "rough cut" boards.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.
My wife brought home a 5/8 inch garden hose yesterday. I looked at it and thought, "You know, a lot of people think that is bigger than a 3/4 inch hose. Because 5 is larger than 3 and 8 is larger than 4."
There actually is such a thing as metric time. Some wristwatches have an additional decimal scale that divides a minute into 100 sub units. It's used in conjunction with the chronograph for industrial and scientific timing operations. It also lets you read, for example, 9:30 as 9.50. Decimal minutes can make some calculations easier. Not that many people, even those dang Canadians, will ever use it.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.
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Sadly, I would agree with you.
That is a hard oneI once gave the Taco Bell cashier $23.27 for the $18.22 order. She handed 3 singles and quarter and 2 pennies back to me and said "You got enough with this $20 bill". I said no, just punch in the amount I gave you. She looked at me like I had two heads. She punched in the amount, and it gave $5.05 change. After she pulled a $5 bill and a nickle from the till it dawned on her. She smiled at me and said "You must be some sort of math genius!"
I tested my 11 year old and asked which is larger 5/8 or 3/4? He thought for about 5 seconds and said 3/4. I asked why and he said because 3/4 is the same as 6/8.
That's the kind of "real world" number/math understanding I've been trying to develop in my kids...guess it's working. Too many kids can take math courses and compute answers like it they're following a recipe but have no real understanding of what or why they're doing it.
I worked in a restaurant for years in high school where the register did not tell you how much change to give and the key was counting up starting with the smallest denomination to the largest (although it would be less helpful above because the 5 cents - at the end you'd realize all the change added up to another $1.05) but it worked most of the time without any calculations.I once gave the Taco Bell cashier $23.27 for the $18.22 order. She handed 3 singles and quarter and 2 pennies back to me and said "You got enough with this $20 bill". I said no, just punch in the amount I gave you. She looked at me like I had two heads. She punched in the amount, and it gave $5.05 change. After she pulled a $5 bill and a nickle from the till it dawned on her. She smiled at me and said "You must be some sort of math genius!"
Bill is $26.32 and the customer gives $40.00
3 pennies makes $26.35
1 nickel makes $26.40
1 dime makes $26.50
2 quarters makes $27.00
3 dollars makes $30.00
1 ten dollar bill makes $40.
Gives the correct change without even having to actually tally how much change you gave.
I remember when we learned about least common denominators in school and what a nightmare that was for half the class and the teacher.
Edit: Half the class understood. Maybe less. The rest were clueless and fought off any attempts from the teacher to explain it. The teacher, having been through this before with previous classes, knew what was going to happen and resigned himself to a month of struggles. Then came the endless math problems of what is bigger: 15/35 or 12/33, etc.
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Jeans. Must be the blue in ‘em
That’s interesting! I’d never heard of such until today!
