Random Rants OA - I Have 71 Problems, But This Thread Ain't One

[Cutlass]

Turns out Prince died of synthetic opiods as well. http://www.klfy.com/top-stories/prince-died-from-sky-high-levels-of-fentanyl-report-shows/1083526247

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I'm guessing Ma-01 means may-01...

Wild guess, it means March first. There are no standards for two letter abbreviations of months though, so that guess is based on the state of the contents more than anything else.

PS...do not carve off any more chunks, and contact a hazmat facility for disposal.

 

[Takhisis]

Ma-01 definitely sounds like the first day of march to me.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Considering that the new carton i just bought says "ma-15" and seems good. Plus the one in the recycling bin have "ma-03"....I'm guessing the bad one must have been left un-refrigerated at some point...

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Where is this strange dairy that uses two letter abbreviations for months? They need to be ranted at!

 

[Synobun]

There are a lot of products in Canada that use two letter dating. I don't know why, it is not intuitive at all. You'd think it would fail the very first QA pass given the March/May conundrum. Yet here we are.

 

[Broken_Erika]

I'm pretty sure march is "mr"

 

[Gori the Grey]

There are a lot of products in Canada that use two letter dating. I don't know why, it is not intuitive at all. You'd think it would fail the very first QA pass given the March/May conundrum. Yet here we are.

And, hello, June-July.

Like, the first two letters of months is the single stupidest possible way of abbreviating months.

You might as well designate days of the week by their last letter.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Three letter abbreviations are pretty well standardized. If you are going to insist on using a two character code there's really no reason to not us '05.'

And while we are ranting about this charlatan dairy, WTH is '10% half and half'? Half and half is supposed to be HALF. That's the point. It's not called "tenth and the rest."

 

[Broken_Erika]

I know that 18% is whipping cream and 5% is thick milk masquerading as cream....stupid fake cream....

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Okay, my bad.

Turns out that 10% milk fat is what you get when you mix equal parts whole milk and cream, so half and half. I just don't recall ever seeing the 10% so prominently displayed before.

 

[Takhisis]

Okay, my bad.

*grins very widely*

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I was going to fascinate everyone by rattling off the Canadian two letter codes, but I just realized that I can't remember all of them. I did however check the milk in the fridge and "MR" is definitely March.

And, hello, June-July.

June = JN
July = JL

 

[Timsup2nothin]

*grins very widely*

As if you had anything to do with it!

 

[cardgame]

That doesn't change the fact that two-letter codes for months are the worst way to categorize them. Period.

 

[metatron]

I don't know; we never had this here, not in my lifetime anyway. Always numbers all the way.
Yet i can totally see this. MR, MA, JN, JL. It's not complicated (the proposition remains the same, never mind the language barrier).
I mean, yes, you have to remember two data points. But some people get all digital dates jumbled up as well. So...

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I don't know; we never had this here, not in my lifetime anyway. Always numbers all the way.
Yet i can totally see this. MR, MA, JN, JL. It's not complicated (the proposition remains the same, never mind the language barrier).
I mean, yes, you have to remember two data points. But really dumb people get all digital dates jumbled up as well. So...

Those seem fine...when you put them side by side. As a stand alone JN might seem like clearly June, since it isn't July, but it still might be January. If I've got something handy with a JA on it that's fine, but again, as a stand alone this just seems a bad idea. How much ink are they really saving by not using the standardized, good anywhere any time by themselves or in groups, three letter abbreviations?

 

[metatron]

Those seem fine...when you put them side by side. As a stand alone JN might seem like clearly June, since it isn't July, but it still might be January. If I've got something handy with a JA on it that's fine, but again, as a stand alone this just seems a bad idea. How much ink are they really saving by not using the standardized, good anywhere any time by themselves or in groups, three letter abbreviations?

*shush*
Of course you're correct.
I'm just trying to be generous here. You know, for training.
Also: When was the last time you thought milk would keep six months?

 

[Takhisis]

Some milk does, if it's been properly treated (UHT).

 

[Timsup2nothin]

*shush*
Of course you're correct.
I'm just trying to be generous here. You know, for training.
Also: When was the last time you thought milk would keep six months?

I live in a civilized country where three letter abbreviations are the standard and are used. These barbarians from the lands of two letter codes need to just lift themselves up by their boot straps, which are hopefully not labeled 'BS.'