DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
That is true. Her subtlety is at best a 2 on a 1 - 10 scale.
Magical Girl Quest - The Fire That Burns
- Thread starter Rukia
- Start date
- Original
- Location
- Somewhere
Europe will probably have bunch of sword teacher for us to choose from. It would be a waste of time to try right now.
By the way, if I'm understanding our situation correctly, we're starting the fire around the time our plane arrive to grab us, right?
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DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
Nope. Not from how I understand it. We are choosing how to wait for the plane.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
We have a range of eight hundred meters. And we could set it aflame when flying over it on the plane.
Also, why are we using the metric system? Aka, worst system ever made?
- Location
- England
Got two good images for it.
Help me pick one?
Also, the current plan for the fire is that you'll make your way towards the border and before you get in the plane you'll start as big a fire as you can 5-6 miles away from it.
Because I only know metric?
(Mostly)
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- Location
- Somewhere
I have no words.
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Spectral Waltz
Scatterbrained Writer
- Location
- Walking the Endless Corridors
I'm going to assume you're joking here.
If you aren't? You're a fucking moron.
... Most Americans who bother to have an education know that our measurement system is fucked up.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
If we are going for the menacing two! If not, one!Got two good images for it.
Help me pick one?
Also, the current plan for the fire is that you'll make your way towards the border and before you get in the plane you'll start as big a fire as you can 5-6 miles away from it.
Because I only know metric?
(Mostly)
*sees you are from England*
...quick question. Have I ever claimed I was smart on this thread? Because if not, trust me, I'm an oblivious idiot.
If I have, ignore that because I am an oblivious idiot.
Edit: ShadowAngel, Imperial works perfectly for day to day use. Metric is for Sciences. At least, in the States.
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- Location
- England
Mistakes were made, it's fine.
Then clearly you should just use Metric...
I use foot for height, just because there is something strangely satisfying by doing so.
The rest of it can go and die in a fire.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
That'd be bad bluntly speaking. Americans really do only care about time and use from something. Imperial is something we all know. And would rage over if it changed.
*Is majoring in Physics* Trust me, as someone who's learned metric and is looking back on imperial, it's a really borked system. And the only reason it works at all, is because we've been using it since we were kids. It's like Cerys not realizing anything is wrong with her family until she visited another person's house. Only, just, ya know, not as emotionally important.
Spectral Waltz
Scatterbrained Writer
- Location
- Walking the Endless Corridors
The social contexts that made imperial moderately useful when it was first invented no longer exist and without them to prop it up the system is a confusing and broken mess. There's no consistency and very little utility.
Metric system is literally better in every way, the only reason not everyone uses it is because they're habituated to other systems and it's not really worth unlearning imperial just to learn metric.
There's kinda a reason that a lot of people think of the states as backwards and broken nowadays...
- Location
- The Garden
[X] Go Outside
-[X] Practice your sword skills
-[X] Practice your sword skills
[X] Go Outside
-[X] Practice trying to hide your magic through the heat and invisible fire methods you thought of before
-[X] Practice trying to hide your magic through the heat and invisible fire methods you thought of before
- Location
- Somewhere
You forgot
I'm fairly certain you can merge it with Sinarblood's vote.
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DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
There is a very sweet irony on that 'backwards and broken' statement. Especially from any country in the UN.
And Germany.
But that's political bullshit that really shouldn't be talked about here.
Why does metric make sense then? Why use metric over imperial? The thing is, that just because you learned one way does not really make the other bad.
I can't understand metric. That's a fact. A very important fact.
Just like how Rukia mostly can't understand imperial. Neither is bad. Just different.
Doesn't mean I won't think metric sucks though.
- Location
- England
I'm... just. I don't even know what to say to this.
A lot of imperial is based off of the distance between your joints or the temperature of your armpit.
If I need to explain why this is bad then I had no chance in the first place.
Edit: I don't mind political talk, so long as it is relevant.
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DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
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- USA
The biggest reason why you'll never find the average American citizen using metric is because, bluntly speaking, its to expensive.
Back in 1975, forty-two years ago, the US government said we were going to use Metric instead of Imperial. Passed an act and everything.
Then they saw how expensive it would be to replace every single road sign. And said that road signs were exempt from it.
This eventually caused other companies to say 'fuck it' and keep using Imperial as well.
We really do use both Imperial and Metric here in the states. Just that the average citizen won't use metric because Imperial is more convient here.
Spectral Waltz
Scatterbrained Writer
- Location
- Walking the Endless Corridors
I'm from Canada, but that aside.
Metric makes sense because it has internal consistency. Every conversion works out by base tens, which means that the system aligns with our base ten numbers as well.
You start with the basic unit, the meter, then backwards and forwards from there.
1 metre = 100 centimetres OR 1000 millimetres
Also help that the word 'centimetre' translates literally to 'hundredth of a meter' and 'millimetre' to 'thousandth of a meter' making things extra-easy.
Then in the other direction, 1 kilometre = 1000 meters. Also helped by the fact that kilo refers to a thousand, hence making it again another easy literal translation.
Not only that, but the prefixes (milli-, centi-, kilo-, etc.) are consistent across all forms of metric measurement.
Weight? A milligram is one thousandth of a gram, or a kilogram is one thousand grams.
Volume? A millilitre is a thousandth of a litre and so on and so forth.
Imperial system was basically originally designed with whatever happened to be lying around to measure stuff with, and originally had no fixed standard. The metric system on the other hand was designed from the ground up for simplicity and consistency and is as a result both much easier to learn and much more useful in the long run. Feet and yards and miles make sense relative to each other but not to a base ten number system, meaning that trying to break them down into decimals for granularity of any kind is almost universally much more difficult than it would be to try and break down a metric measurement in the same way.
EDIT: Not saying that imperial isn't useful. I'm just saying that it's utility is far lesser compared to metric, and one cannot reasonably argue s better in any way.
Keep using it if you want, but at least understand and acknowledge that it is inferior when you do so.
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- Location
- Somewhere
So why are people voting for sword training when we don't have any idea how to use it?
The Mage's Association are probably going to provide an actual trainer for us. Trying to learn how to use a sword right now is a waste of our time and probably won't even give us an edge in the immediate future.
The Mage's Association are probably going to provide an actual trainer for us. Trying to learn how to use a sword right now is a waste of our time and probably won't even give us an edge in the immediate future.
- Location
- England
Incidentally, I should probably try and start using Kilometres instead of Miles.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
Imperial is very useful in the States money wise and social wise since anyone with a proper, or rather anyone with any, education knows it. Meanwhile, day to day, Metric just isn't used enough in conversation to be considered as useful.
Yes, Metric has its uses in the Sciences and Bussiness over here, but when in conversation, Imperial is king.
>Mage Association
>Swords
...You may want to reread that.