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[NM]

There is one in every crowd im my book refers to someone that has fun at someone else's expense.

Seems that in the crowds I associate with, there are generally more than one when it comes to my expense :roll: .

 

[BlacKnox]

Have changed my timezone to GMT+10 (so we're all on the same wavelength). So hopefully this should post at 10.02am (Brisbane time :arrow: ).

There is one in every crowd. :roll: :roll: :roll:

Meaning :?:

Nothing bad at all implied.

There is one in every crowd im my book refers to someone that has fun at someone else's expense.

Still uncertain of your meaning. You think the above post was poking fun at someone :?: :?: :?: Personally I can't see the joke.

 

[JohnK]

Still uncertain of your meaning. You think the above post was poking fun at someone :?: :?: :?: Personally I can't see the joke.

Everyone has been poking fun at me and my problem with the time settings.

I just assumed that you were having a dig as well. :? Never mind.

(Mental note to self: never assume as it makes an @ss out of him and me)

 

[BlacKnox]

Still uncertain of your meaning. You think the above post was poking fun at someone :?: :?: :?: Personally I can't see the joke.

Everyone has been poking fun at me and my problem with the time settings.

I just assumed that you were having a dig as well. :? Never mind.

(Mental note to self: never assume as it makes an @ss out of him and me)

I fail to see how this makes an @ss out of me.

 

[NM]

I fail to see how this makes an @ss out of me.

I think he means something like this:

"Never assume, as it often makes an cough out of U and ME."

I know from my own experience that I regularly make an cough of myself through the process of assuming what someone else is thinking, as I am likely to be doing here by assuming what JohnK is meaning .

By the way, are you in Brisbane now or just prefer to use the Brisbane timezone rather than Japanese timezone?

 

[JohnK]

I fail to see how this makes an @ss out of me.

You are having a lot fun with this aren't you :?: :roll: OK, I will play the game for a little longer

Second grade mathematics

• Assume = @ss + u + me

 

[JohnK]

This discussion is getting further and further off topic.

Our attention span does not last very long. :?

I thought this discussion has remained very restrained! No mention yet of the merits of metric time (oops, sorry folks ).

Interesting concept metric time.

24*60*60=86400 seconds/day. To go metric you could change a minute to 100 seconds but then the second would need to be shorter than it already is, an hour would contain 100 minutes and the day would contain 10 hours. All fits perfectly into the metric time. One metric day would equal 10*100*100=100000 metric seconds/day, which would still be the length of time as the current day. Is this a feasible solution?

The problem will come from the fact that there are 4 distinct seasons (although some countries only have 2/3 seasons). 365 days per year is not very metric unless you then take the seasons out of it and change a year to 100 days, 500 days (can be considered metric) or 1000 days. This is where the cat gets among the pigeons. Seasonal events would cease to be seasonal, when does a farmer seed, when does a mare foal.......

I prefer nuclear clocks myself but that is for another thread.

 

[QF WP]

No, please don't start NM on his metric time or lightbulb theories, please.....

 

[JohnK]

No, please don't start NM on his metric time or lightbulb theories, please.....

lightbulb theory :?

 

[NM]

24*60*60=86400 seconds/day. To go metric you could change a minute to 100 seconds but then the second would need to be shorter than it already is, an hour would contain 100 minutes and the day would contain 10 hours. All fits perfectly into the metric time. One metric day would equal 10*100*100=100000 metric seconds/day, which would still be the length of time as the current day. Is this a feasible solution?

Actually, its 10 hours in a half day. And yes, the unit time called a second is variable and just a definition of a certain number of oscillations of a certain radioactive element . Its a bit like a US pint being a smaller serve of beer than a real pint. Metric seconds and imperial seconds are in fact different durations.

This is where the cat gets among the pigeons.

There you go again with the animal analogies :roll:

Seasonal events would cease to be seasonal, when does a farmer seed, when does a mare foal.......

At least it means my birthdays would not roll around quite so often

 

[NM]

No, please don't start NM on his metric time or lightbulb theories, please.....

lightbulb theory :?

That one is best shared over a few cold ales sometime ....

And its not actually a light bulb, now is it?

 

[JohnK]

No, please don't start NM on his metric time or lightbulb theories, please.....

lightbulb theory :?

That one is best shared over a few cold ales sometime ....

And its not actually a light bulb, now is it?

If not a light bulb then what? :?

Come on NM, don't keep us in suspenders!!!!

 

[NM]

If not a light bulb then what? :?

Come on NM, don't keep us in suspenders!!!!

As I said, best shared over a few cold ones ...

 

[BlacKnox]

I fail to see how this makes an @ss out of me.

I think he means something like this:

"Never assume, as it often makes an cough out of U and ME."

That sounds better.

By the way, are you in Brisbane now or just prefer to use the Brisbane timezone rather than Japanese timezone?

I'm in Sapporo now. I thought the Brisbane timezone would more acurately reflect my posting times, so I changed it. And, BrisVegas is my second home .

 

[JohnK]

24*60*60=86400 seconds/day. To go metric you could change a minute to 100 seconds but then the second would need to be shorter than it already is, an hour would contain 100 minutes and the day would contain 10 hours. All fits perfectly into the metric time. One metric day would equal 10*100*100=100000 metric seconds/day, which would still be the length of time as the current day. Is this a feasible solution?

Actually, its 10 hours in a half day. And yes, the unit time called a second is variable and just a definition of a certain number of oscillations of a certain radioactive element . Its a bit like a US pint being a smaller serve of beer than a real pint. Metric seconds and imperial seconds are in fact different durations.

Ok now I am confused again. :? Why is 10 metric hours only half a day?

This is where the cat gets among the pigeons.

There you go again with the animal analogies :roll:

I thought you may get this one. Didn't conceal it very well.

Seasonal events would cease to be seasonal, when does a farmer seed, when does a mare foal.......

At least it means my birthdays would not roll around quite so often

Not if the year consisted of 100 days. :wink:

 

[NM]

Ok now I am confused again. :? Why is 10 metric hours only half a day?

Got to maintain the concept of am and pm.

I have had great fun with my American colleagues and metric time. Just need to show them my World Time or Dual Time watch (quickly enough that all they see is two different times - analogue and digital is enough) and blurt out the "rules" very quickly and authoritively, and they are not sure if its true or not.

Once when an ex-Navy F14 pilot was telling me how much we always wanted to go to "your country", and how he just missed out on a trip while based at Guam because he hadn't been trained yet on a particular weapons system, I explained that he was probably lucky not to be assigned to Australia as most Americans find our metric time system very confusing.

He spend several hours "researching" about metric time on the internet before tracking me down in the office corridor and abusing me for having a lend of him. It was easier than completing the AA Platinum Challenge :wink: .

 

[oz_mark]

There is one in every crowd im my book refers to someone that has fun at someone else's expense.

Seems that in the crowds I associate with, there are generally more than one when it comes to my expense :roll: .

I must associate with a similar crowd.

 

[oz_mark]

Ok now I am confused again. :? Why is 10 metric hours only half a day?

Got to maintain the concept of am and pm.

I have had great fun with my American colleagues and metric time. Just need to show them my World Time or Dual Time watch (quickly enough that all they see is two different times - analogue and digital is enough) and blurt out the "rules" very quickly and authoritively, and they are not sure if its true or not.

Once when an ex-Navy F14 pilot was telling me how much we always wanted to go to "your country", and how he just missed out on a trip while based at Guam because he hadn't been trained yet on a particular weapons system, I explained that he was probably lucky not to be assigned to Australia as most Americans find our metric time system very confusing.

He spend several hours "researching" about metric time on the internet before tracking me down in the office corridor and abusing me for having a lend of him. It was easier than completing the AA Platinum Challenge :wink: .

I would have thought it better to keep ten hours a day. That way we could have centidays and millidays and other metric what not, rather than minuts and seconds.

 

[QF WP]

Oh Golly, look what I have started :roll:

 

[JohnK]

I would have thought it better to keep ten hours a day. That way we could have centidays and millidays and other metric what not, rather than minuts and seconds.

That's pretty good oz_mark.

I hadn't thought about centidays and millidays. :idea:

Hmmmmm.......... Better go and revise my metric time theory.