Random Rants LX: I wish to register a complaint

[GoodSarmatian]

I just woke up from one of those multi layered dreams/nightmares. In one I dream that I am in bed, trying to sleep, just below that is a dream where I am sleeping and trying to pick or influence the dream I'm going to have, but I always up in surreal nightmares. I'm usually pretty good at realizing that I'm in a dream and I can just choose to wake up, but when there are layers like this I can get fooled into thinking that I woke up when I'm still dreaming. Took me five cycles ( probably more, but I remember five) to escape this time.

 

[Kennigit]

"china has like 1.5 mld people"

get out of here* europeans with your garbage "milliard"

*not cfc

 

[Lohrenswald]

What makes you so angry?

 

[Borachio]

Wouldn't you be angry if you had to use feet and inches? And imperial gallons? Just because.

Milliard really makes a lot of sense. Billion should be a million million. As we all know. But Americans have had it mean a thousand million, i.e. a milliard, for so long now, that I guess we've just got to put up with it.

Back in the day (50 years ago), a billion really did mean a million million. But that's deflation for you.

 

[Civ'ed]

european economics always work best worst most averagely.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Wouldn't you be angry if you had to use feet and inches? And imperial gallons? Just because.

Yes, but I don't have to per se. But more importantly, europeans have to cope with americans' system way more than they with ours, and then they trash-talk us.

 

[Borachio]

True. But that's surely understandable at some level. Just think of Coca Cola and McDonald's, for instance.

Also, Donald Trump.

Consider them as slightly deranged eccentric cousins, if it helps.

 

[GamezRule]

I've been watching Doctor Who season 8 now that it is on Netflix and I must say that so far I feel like I'm just watching old episodes with new characters.

 

[cardgame]

Milliard is like imperial measurements but for numbers. And you make fun of us for using proper metric numbers.

 

[Borachio]

That makes zero sense to me. Does it make sense? No.

kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, zeta

Those are your metric "numbers". "Billion" doesn't figure in it, as far as I can see.

Spoiler :

Of course, neither does "milliard". But that's just a detail I'm happy to ignore.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Milliard is like imperial measurements but for numbers. And you make fun of us for using proper metric numbers.

They're not even measurements
Borachio, milliard is tera

 

[Takhisis]

A billion is 10¹², i.e. a 1 followed by twelve zeroes. A milliard is 10⁹, obviously.

 

[Borachio]

Yes.

But, you see, current English usage has it that a billion is 10^9. It's no use saying it isn't, when really it is. Even if you're right.

 

[Takhisis]

They have had short-scale imposed by those short-changing 'Mericans? Scotland must, no, will be free!
New currency: Scots merk, divided into 23 shillins and those into 19 pence.
Weights: avoirdupois ponds.
Numbers: long scale!
Distance: based on the ell
English: spoken incomprehensibly or no' at all.
Huzzah!

 

[Lohrenswald]

Yes.

But, you see, current English usage has it that a billion is 10^9. It's no use saying it isn't, when really it is. Even if you're right.

Vel la være å snakke engelsk, da.

 

[Takhisis]

Lohrensvaltti, miksi kirjoitat viesten CFC:ssä länsiruotseksi?

 

[Borachio]

Vel la være å snakke engelsk, da.

Indeed. But then it would be a difficult job to stop people speaking English even if anyone wanted them to.

 

[Arakhor]

Link to video.

Cold baked beans, served on some bread that looks like it's never even seen a toaster and then eaten with your hands? What travesty is this??

 

[Takhisis]

Important question: does he put butter on the beans? The picture's bad enough.

 

[Arakhor]

I doubt that the bread's been buttered, let alone the beans.