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Incandenza wrote:If you were going to do a conversion for the american audience, celsius to fahrenheit might've been a better bet. Kilometers and litres and one thing, but I cannot for the life of me make heads or tails of celsius, no matter how many times I try and memorize the conversion rate. It's just something my brain refuses to process, like legalese or the Cricket map.

room temperature is 25C, water freezes at 0C and fahrenheit is just the convoluted american way to stay detached from the rest of the world?

Celsius are easy when you deal with them every day. ie you know how much is "hot" on Celsius and what is "cold" there. I have the same problem for Fahrenheit. Miles and inches are easier - the conversion is easy. But those Fahrenheit ... awww.

As for the km, cm, celsius - it is a C system, so as a tech person myself I cannot thing why anyone would want to measure something in another system that even takes more numbers to remember (76cm is one number, where 2"6 are two).

By the way liter is not a C unit, 1 liter is 10cm^3 and only for water it weight 1kg and only in normal environment.

You'd have loved the old Pounds, Shillings and Pence (LSD) monetary system that I grew up with in the UK until decimalisation came along.

12 pennies = 1 shilling
20 shillings = 1 pound

So in the old system, there were 240 pence in a pound. After decimalisation our new currency , logically, had 100p per pound.

There were fabulous old coins in those days though. A farthing (1/4 of a penny), a halfpenny (ha'penny), penny, threepence, sixpence, a shilling, a half crown (two shillings and sixpence, written 2/6-). It all changed in the early 70s, thus I was lucky as my prep school had been teaching us both old and new systems. Some of the older folk were totally confused (all of a sudden a new penny was worth 2.4 times as much as the previous penny).

Ah good times.

(and yes Dakes you are right, the litre is not an official SI unit but it is recognised for use with the SI)

Dako wrote:Celsius are easy when you deal with them every day. ie you know how much is "hot" on Celsius and what is "cold" there. I have the same problem for Fahrenheit. Miles and inches are easier - the conversion is easy. But those Fahrenheit ... awww.

As for the km, cm, celsius - it is a C system, so as a tech person myself I cannot thing why anyone would want to measure something in another system that even takes more numbers to remember (76cm is one number, where 2"6 are two).

By the way liter is not a C unit, 1 liter is 10cm^3 and only for water it weight 1kg and only in normal environment.

It depends on where you measure it, cause it is different in equador from the poles.But yes, in physic we use 1liter= 10cm^3.

Hence why I names them normal environment. My bad as I meant STP, here is the detailed link. Sometimes I wish I knew English better.

The metric system makes the most sense in the world

What an experience! It's a gorgeous spot, it's too bad you weren't able to enjoy it.

I'm with Incan, celsius makes no sense to me, but "hottest day of the year" is pretty descriptive.

lord voldemort wrote:The metric system makes the most sense in the world

The thought of something intelligent existing outside of America is simply laughable.

(That's what I'm supposed to say as a "good American")

Lubawski wrote:

lord voldemort wrote:The metric system makes the most sense in the world

The thought of something intelligent existing outside of America is simply laughable.

(That's what I'm supposed to say as a "good American")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M
(NSFW lyrics)

New(ish) updates:

Game 9364309 EMPIRE wins
Game 9359059 TOFU wins
Game 9493826 EMPIRE wins
Game 9493825 TOFU wins
Game 9493824 EMPIRE wins
Game 9493821 EMPIRE wins
Game 9493819 TOFU wins
Game 9491491 EMPIRE wins
Game 9491479 EMPIRE wins
Game 9491469 TOFU wins
Game 9491488 EMPIRE wins

Current score EMPIRE 40, TOFU 19

The last two games will both be TOFU victories, so final score will end up 40-21 EMPIRE win.

Thanks Mike

Chariot of Fire wrote:Thanks Mike

No problem. Did you get the singing telegram we sent?

Is that what she was? Damn, I thought she was the stripper. We had her put on a great show! Thanks Empire

Thanks for the update, Iron Maid. It's over already? It seems like only yesterday we just getting started..

[spoiler=the memories]Everyone teasing Charlie, Ace (or was it?) so flirty, Wolffy, once only a fond memory, making a reappearance to liven up every chat, Pedro barely getting his papers filled out in time, Space busy at the editing desk, Becky making then breaking promises, leaving us all broken-hearted, Cat never failing to let her teammates know what it's like playing risk from a feline's perspective, Fenrir prompting me to watch Andy Kaufman on youtube for about 45 minutes, pcon proving that P stands for pretty good at writing ditty's, learning about celsius and the metric system and how not to go camping, discussing BOB with Seul over cookies, Bruce and ljex having their usual debate discussion about Bruce's prediction, so many memories...[/spoiler]
In seriousness, it's been a privilege to play you, TOFU, in what turns out to be your last challenge as a competitive clan. It is a little sad that such a great competitive clan is ending, but it is also the beginning of a great social clan. Good luck to you all.

Thanks :).

I'm not sure what to say, so I'll let Frankie sing it for me instead. From the last verse of 'Thanks for the Memories'

I know it’s a fallacy
That grown men never cry
Baby, that’s a lie
We had our bed of roses
But forgot that roses die
And thank you so much

Last game is over. Record the results and move to completed challenges please.

Moved to completed. Privs removed. Dropbox updated. Medals issued.

Oh, and a big "screw you" to Steve and Si for not only switching clans, but for switching after the challenge but before medals were issued, to the clan that just beat them! I had a hell of a time balancing the games for medals...bitches I swear. I caught Si right away...but for some reason I thought Steve was in Empire the whole time and I just couldn't get the game numbers to reconcile. So I ended up just randomly deleting players until the games balanced. Don't let it happen again fellas

lol, sorry Nick I had no idea. I'll be sure to give you advance notice if I move to KORT!

Chariot of Fire wrote:lol, sorry Nick I had no idea. I'll be sure to give you advance notice if I move to KORT!

Dear Lord! You will get a reputation as a serial dater if you do that

Lubawski wrote:Feel free to surrender at any time. No need prolonging the inevitable. You will be destroyed. EMPIRE 41 - TOFU 20.

Holy Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Batman!!

Say, what are the winning numbers for this Friday?

chemefreak wrote:

Chariot of Fire wrote:lol, sorry Nick I had no idea. I'll be sure to give you advance notice if I move to KORT!

Dear Lord! You will get a reputation as a serial dater if you do that

Don't hold your breath. Well done Empire!

Thanks Bruce. I'll be looking from the sidelines in the hotly-contested battle that is Empire vs Kort, waving my new banner of course.