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Javid posted:
The Harbor Freight Michael Jackson Collection is the bizarest brand sponsorship I've ever seen.
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Javid posted:
Hardy Har brand.
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Javid posted:
Well that is what happens when you use a coupon.
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Heh. I once made it home from Home Depot with a 3-pack of gloves that was actually 2-and-a-half. When I brought them back, they left me dig through the big box they were piled in to find the missing one, so that was nice.
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I was given a pair of high end, made in Canada waterproof work gloves good for -40 and wet (waterproof liner) as a promo right from the manufacturer to try and get sales reps to promote them. Worth around $75 per pair The thumb on the right hand has completely stitched closed from the palm. Good quality control guys.
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slidebite posted:I was given a pair of high end, made in Canada waterproof work gloves good for -40 and wet (waterproof liner) as a promo right from the manufacturer to try and get sales reps to promote them. Worth around $75 per pair That is loving amazing!
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Probably thought he already lost a thumb due to frostbite.
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Cojawfee posted:Gendered nouns are stupid as hell. How do you determine that a chair is male but a door is female? I'm learning German. Three genders, and the pronouns change based on the case. Churches are feminine, except when they're near something in which case they're masculine.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Probably thought he already lost a thumb due to frostbite.
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I find it helps if you consider the failure to be calling it a "gender" in the first place: It's a system of noun classes that have different plurals* and influence some words around them to match. They're not really related to gender or sex outside a couple of example words that happen to line up, and have more in common with how some English words have weird plurals. Also, Norwegian budgets use "MNOK" for million NOK. I'm sure that has never caused any confusion with foreign partners. * In the Scandinavian languages they also have different definites, but that's kind of a trade-off for not using a definite article: instead of "ein Stein, der Stein, Steine, die Steine" (is Stein even masculine in German?) , it's "en stein, steinen, steiner, steinene", with different patterns for the other genders. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Dec 29, 2018 |
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slidebite posted:Never thought of that, it was a feature! Ironic thing is it was a 20% off coupon. Which well you count your hand...
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Dave Inc. posted:I'm learning German. Three genders, and the pronouns change based on the case. Churches are feminine, except when they're near something in which case they're masculine. The genitive of "die" being "der" doesn’t make it a masculine pronoun. That being said, German is insane says the native speaker. I'm currently trying out Turkish on Duolingo, it’s basically the exact opposite. Rules without exceptions, how do they do it?
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Zopotantor posted:The genitive of "die" being "der" doesn’t make it a masculine pronoun. Cool thing is with Turkish you would know the ending to "The Usual Suspects" within the first few minutes.
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Zopotantor posted:The genitive of "die" being "der" doesn’t make it a masculine pronoun. You guys have 16 different ways to say the word “the” depending on the randomly-assigned genders for nouns, all other languages are civil and well thought-out compared to German  says the American who was too dumb to learn your language. Also nobody uses Genitiv, nobody. Nominativ, Akkusativ und Dativ haunt my loving dreams.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Cool thing is with Turkish you would know the ending to "The Usual Suspects" within the first few minutes. I thought that was Hungarian?
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Memento posted:I thought that was Hungarian? Hell it looks like a little bit of both. Like metric and SAE.
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Ripoff posted:Also nobody uses Genitiv, nobody. Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod The "dem X sein Y" construction is actually really, really old. Zweiter Merseburger Zauberspruch posted:Phôl ende Wuodan fuorun zi holza.
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Hell shift.
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Dave Inc. posted:I'm learning German. Three genders, and the pronouns change based on the case. Churches are feminine, except when they're near something in which case they're masculine. Spanish often assigns genders to a lot of things that... shouldn't have genders. Like swearing. But it only has 2 genders (for now). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Dec 31, 2018 |
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Darchangel posted:That's mainly because the caliber reflects only the diameter of the slug itself, and not the length or the sizing/chambering of the actual shell. More or less. Because naming standards on ammunition are far from standardized. this is some copy pasta 460S/W<--454 casul<--45longcolt<--45 coltgovt 44 magnum<--44 special<--44 russian 357 maximum<--357 magnum<--38 special<--38 long colt<--38 short colt 10mm<--40S&W 327 mag<--32 H&R mag<--32 S&W long<--32 S&W short this is of course most applicable to revolvers and single shots like the TC Encore/contender etc. and there is this thing https://lockedback.com/m47-medusa-revolver-shoot-100-cartridges-1-handgun/
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10mm and .40 can't be fired in the same chambers like the other things you mention can. And 10 mm is equal to .40" so it's not even inaccurate. 9mm and .380 auto are also the same diameter, which is not even close to .380", for the same reasons as .38 special. Cartridge naming is indeed a shitshow.
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gave him the ol' spicy shifter
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Megillah Gorilla posted:The only countries left, in the entire world, which don't have metric as their official standard are Myanmar, Liberia and the US.
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Javid posted:10mm and .40 can't be fired in the same chambers like the other things you mention can. And 10 mm is equal to .40" so it's not even inaccurate. No mention of 357 Sig either, which is really what 9mm and .380 are in actual diameter. You can even use the same magazines from 357 Sig to .40 s&w but not the barrel. What a mess.
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evil_bunnY posted:And the US distance measurements are a straight metric conversion anyway. I'm unclear what you mean by this.
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shortspecialbus posted:I'm unclear what you mean by this.
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shortspecialbus posted:I'm unclear what you mean by this. SI units are determined by something from the real world. The meter is defined by the distance light travels in a vacuum in 3.33564095 x 10^-9 seconds. A second is the time it takes a cesium atom to oscillate a certain number of times. There is no such definition for imperial units. An inch is 2.54 centimeters. A foot is .3048 meters.
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A foot is 1/1000 the distance sound travels in a second at sea level, buh gawd!
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Cojawfee posted:SI units are determined by something from the real world. The meter is defined by the distance light travels in a vacuum in 3.33564095 x 10^-9 seconds. Sure, NOW. The definition of a meter has changed several times, and only became related to light in the 80s. Historically most SI units were just as variable as imperial.
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Godholio posted:Sure, NOW. The definition of a meter has changed several times, and only became related to light in the 80s. Historically most SI units were just as variable as imperial. Yes, but the point was always to get it as accurate as possible. After the units were determined, they noticed a problem where the physical meter sometimes changed. They made several physical kilograms and they all kept drifting away from each other. So they looked for something that could be counted on as constant. Distance and time are pretty much sorted, but they are still looking for a good way to represent the kilogram. No such effort is being made for the imperial measurements because they have already been locked to metric.
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Cojawfee posted:Distance and time are pretty much sorted, but they are still looking for a good way to represent the kilogram. That's actually been done: they agreed to a definition of the kilogram based on a natural invariant, which takes effect next year.
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They "solved" the kg problem, it takes effect in May. It's now defined in terms of energy required for an electromagnet to offset 1 kg in a not-quite-user-friendly formula. Edit: damnit
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Cojawfee posted:SI units are determined by something from the real world. The meter is defined by the distance light travels in a vacuum in 3.33564095 x 10^-9 seconds. A second is the time it takes a cesium atom to oscillate a certain number of times. There is no such definition for imperial units. An inch is 2.54 centimeters. A foot is .3048 meters. okay so yeah perhaps there is no official publication saying this, but an inch is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 8.4725234 x 10^11 seconds and you can take that to the bank
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Sagebrush posted:okay so yeah perhaps there is no official publication saying this, but an inch is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 8.4725234 x 10^11 seconds and you can take that to the bank The point is it's pegged to the meter, not directly to the speed of light. So if they decided to double how long "1 meter" is, the inch would also become double its current length; it's not independently pegged to the speed of light.
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The same committee that could hypothetically double the length of the metre could instead double the length of the second, with the same effect on both the metre and the inch. They’re not going to do that because it would be insane. What could happen is a redefinition of the second in terms of a different atomic clock. This will have no practical effect outside of national labs. Most labs will continue to use cæsium clocks, with the same conversion to the second they always have.
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Zopotantor posted:I was told in the army (Germany, 30+ years ago) that the Russians used 7.62 so that they could use NATO 7.62 rounds they picked up, but that their own rounds had some feature (changed grooves or similar) that made them unusable in our guns (G3, at the time). I have no idea if that was true, but I always thought it was stupid to let that happen. Drill sergeants in the German military tend to be full of poo poo and tall tales, especially about Russia, in my experience. I'm sure this applies to other militaries with their own weird obsessions TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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