Fractions?

Fractions use a numerator and denominator (e.g., (3/4)). Decimals use a decimal point with place values based on powers of 10 (e.g., 0.75.)

So to answer which cookbooks use fractions; it’s American ones.

Take 1/4th cup this 2 cups that 2&7/8ths of a fl oz this and 1/2 quart of water.

So yeah. American cookbooks use factions.

“the conversion isn’t useful”

There no conversion going on. You can say 200g of flour or 0.2kg of flour. Both equally understandable to anyone who grew up with the metric system. Hell my grandpa even uses hecto- and deca- in everyday conversations.

Because if I don’t assume their language, they won’t understand me, as my native language is Finnish. When talking to or about Americans, I might add a bit of American flare. It’s not grammatically correct, I know. Just double negatives.

Also criticism and disparagement are two different things.

I actually went through the entire pdf. Didn’t read all of it, but browsed through and read the parts I though relate to this.

I can’t find anything about the metre ever being from “natural measurements”. Only that the people looking to make the metre debated the subject. But the metre itself was always based on the size of the Earth. But yeah, it’s close to a yard and a yard is 3 feet.

Ofc originally all measurements somehow derive from our bodies, because that’s the first thing we measured with. But like the pdf quite quickly says:

It is universally accepted that the first important stage in the development of metro- logical concepts related to measures of length is the anthropomorphic one, in which the main units of measurement are the parts of the human body [3, 4]. As the sociologist and historian of metrology Witold Kula puts it, “man measures the world with him- self” [4] — a variation of Protagoras’ “man is the measure of all things”. It is a very ancient and primitive approach. Certainly, even the first people who adopted such units must have been aware that the length of their own feet or fingers was different from their neighbor’s ones. But initially such personal differences did not seem important, given the low degree of accuracy required in measurements in that social context. Later the anthropomorphic approach reached a first level of abstraction, charac- terized by “the shift from concrete representations to abstract ones, from ‘my or your finger’ to ‘finger in general’ ” 4 [4]. Nevertheless, even when the stage was reached of conceiving measurement units as abstract concepts, differences in establishing the value of these units remained, depending on region or time [6, 7, 8, 9]. Only in the eighteenth century, with the consolidation of the experimental method on one hand, and the drive towards international co-operation and trading on the other, 3All English quotes not referring to English bibliography are translation by the authors. 4The earliest measurement standard we have evidence of is the Egyptian cubit, the length of the forearm from elbow to fingers, realized around 2500 B.C. in a piece of marble of about 50 centimeters [5]. 2 strong emphasis was placed for the first time on the need for standardized units

] one would still have to include an heterogeneous element, time, or what is here the same thing, the intensity of the gravitational force at the Earth’s surface. Now, if it is possible to have a unit of length that does not depend on any other quantity, it seems natural to prefer it.27 [. . . ] Actually, it is much more natural to refer the distance between two places to a quarter of one of the terrestrial circles than to refer it to the length of the pendulum. [. . . ] The quarter of the Earth meridian would become then the real unit of length; and the ten million-th part of this length would be its practical unit. (Ref [2], pp. 4-5)

Ugh I’m not gonna format all that. I’m not like trying to say you’re wrong. I’m asking you what you’re trying to say?

Oh, really? You use your foot or your girlfriend’s? Because I wager those are somewhat different.

What body part is a quart based on? Because I don’t think it’s any of them, and you could probably still eyeball a quart of water. That’s to say, just shy of a litre.

How about one yard? Think you can do that? Great, just add a bit and you have a metre.

It’s crazy how Americans actually be complaining about how they’re unable to estimate or perceive things if they’re not actually measuring it against the bottom of their feet. Don’t you believe you have the ability to learn? I can see why you wouldn’t, but…

Second is a measure of time. You think its “the time it take for one step”… ?

A day is divided into hours. An hour is divided into smaller pisces, minute pieces. (See how it works as an adjective and a noun?) Then that measure is divided a second time, into secunda pars minuta

That’s why they’re minutes and seconds.

Metres don’t exactly sound like step lengths either

The mètre was introduced – defined as one ten-millionth of the shortest distance from the North Pole to the equator passing through Paris, assuming an Earth flattening of ⁠1/334⁠.

Orient Express

Edit seems to only instrumental.

I only know the Finnish version originally

Pikajuna Meksikon

Edit 2 here are the translated lyrics (i didn’t bother checking so it’s ai translate)

Verse 1]

The express train is speeding through Mexico, it’s already night The spotlights sweep the shiny track The barking of a coyote is heard, fading into the noise of the locomotive

Behind the Sierra Madre, the moon is bulging like cheese

The atmosphere in the first-class carriage is sleepy. Passengers, men, women, everyone is dozing. Then the pace slows down and almost stops. What could be the reason for the stop?

Verse 2]

The brakes squeal on the wheels, the carriage door opens. Two men rush in, talking dirty. Little Pete, Big Pat, both gangsters. Both of them are brandishing large crowbars.

“Hands up, gentlemen!” shouts a sharp command

Big Pat and shoots at the ceiling a couple of times:

"It would be wise for everyone to open their wallets now

“Listen to the one who is wearing shoes”

[Verse 3]

No one can resist, Little Pete guards Big Pat while he evacuates with his fingers the most accustomed Rings and purses, medallions, wallets

The robber also searches the suitcases alone. Nothing is left for the victims, the prey exceeds their hopes. Little Pete hisses at the top of his lungs: “Men are beaten to a pulp, but women are taken away.”

“I can’t be without my beloved now.”

[Verse 4]

A rumbling laugh rings out, Big Pat now echoes his Partner’s words and soon grunts: “Okay, that’s what we’ll do, we’ll have a decent harem.”

“Let’s take the dirt to a hidden cave behind the Sierra Madre”

Then from the trap of the carriage, from among the gentlemen

Hidalgo now steps forward, says: “Señores, do whatever you want to us, but spare the women, otherwise you will have a bad memory.”

[Verse 5]

A moment of silence follows, the suggestion is strange, new

Ha, now there’s a commotion in the women’s group too. An old maid, now, fifty years old, demands the floor and immediately gets it. Her eyes blazing with anger, she jumps on her feet and begins to vent her anger at Hidalgo:

“What is the gentleman talking about and fussing about? Let’s do as the bandits order.”

Huh-hah-heija, we’ll do as the bandits order

Edit 3 i feel like there were more of those in the song than in tje lyrics page I looked at

Yeah, sure. If anyone’s done any fucking, it’s usually with other people, who are also animals. So yeah.

Because Trump is Putlers lapdog obviously

Bond, shooting a mini rpg into a wall that cracks open with water on the other side, causing a flood and washing all the henchwomen and villains away:

“Guess you had a… heavy flow.”

Yes Alex, is the answer “what is the American prison system?”

It is essential that these be kept separate from regular tampons.

Haha. Nice comment to start my morning with, thanks. :D

Not essential for Bond though.

They have to be able to fool the henchwomen of their enemies, so like the cigarette-gun, it needs to be in a box with regulars so it doesn’t get taken away from Bond by the Villain and they can then use it for something cool, after which they make a bad pun.

James Bond - 1967 You Only Live Twice Cigarette Gun

I wanted to argue that, but yeah, she’s 61 and Roger Moore was 57 when he did his last one. So, perhaps, yeah. But not by a lot.

Flotation tampon? You’re thinking too small. Explosive. Maybe shooty. Definitely some kind of bang. Tampon could be a mini bazooka with all the latest tech in a mini-missile.

Oh damn, we think alike a bit perhaps.

I was gonna go with Samantha Béart, the voice behind Karlach. Also Australian, and at least played a lesbian.

Edit oh Ruby Rose is that gal from OITB I remember her. Yes yours is now my first choice as well, if we can’t have Karlach, who’s a fictional character.

Even the male Bonds didn’t all do that.

Remember?

“This never happened to the other fella” James Bond On her Majesty’s secret service when Lazenby was the actor.

Idk man, should’ve seen the shit she was writing. Also she’s a pretty big deal in the cracking circles afaik.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_(cracker)

But yeah nothing there to disprove your hypothesis though, but the way it’s been going in the world, there’s definitely more Russians pretending to be Americans online than the other way around. Lemmy is chock full of Davels ([email protected])

Why would I thank them? They ruined my life