Which one of you Toyota drivers is this?!?

I kinda wish they'd splurge for ONE MORE LETTER than two, when printing expiration dates: for March vs May. There, got that off my chest.

 

Was that a joke video? I've seen some small car drivers that think their driving a semi. No wonder people seem to want all of these crazy electronics we somehow did without for decades.

That car is nice! Much better looking than the Yaris, and the Prius, not to mention all of the tiny cars made today by Mitsu and all.

 

The airline was Canadian, but the plane was a Boeing 767, made in my American back yard.

 

Werribee has some of the best cheap Indian food in Australia, as well as excellent cheap Vietnamese food. If I'm ever flying out of Avalon airport close to a mealtime, I try to stop off there.

It's got a really good open zoo as well.

 

Yes, that's a Corolla Hatchback in Australia, and it's called an Auris in the UK. In the UK, it's available as a hybrid, but here it isn't. Also, it's available as an estate (station wagon) in the UK, but not here. The hybrid estate would be an incredibly useful car: I'd be tempted if they sold it here.

 

No, not foreign. Australian.

 

DD MM YYYY at least has a logical progression to it (until, as you say, you add the time). That's what we use here, and in Britain. In China, it's YYYY MM DD, which does make a lot of sense. But MM DD YYYY has always struck me as extraordinarily illogical.

 

The issue was confusion over the units used for the fuel.

Except that it is based on how the date was traditionally written out or spoken. At least, in English. May 5th is quicker to say than the 5th of May. The month is also the distinguishing bit of info. Every month has a 5th. Best to deliver that bit of data first in case you are dealing with the slow witted.

 

Most of the World use DD MM YYYY or YYYY MM DD apart from one particular country who use MM DD YYYY, you know the one, the one where they try to be different on everything else; car standards, mobile phone standards, use of date, non use of metric. Bless 'em.

Please come and join the World, most of it's quite nice. Try metric, try the 24h clock, try the date in a logical order but you can still say May 5th when talking to others. But why be different to the World?

 

Up here in Canada, life is a bit of a balancing act, between legislated metric measures, and the realities of imperial products. Throw in French translation on all products.

Any and all construction materials, sheets of plywood, various 2x's, are ALL imperial.

In steel construction, stuff like a W8x24 becomes a W200x36, everything soft converted to the nearest mm. Mounting of mechanical components is an exercise: typically they're imperial measure, and all hole center-to-center dimensions have to be converted.

If a converted transverse dimension (something being dimensioned back on either side to a center line) became an odd number, I would always bump it to an even number. It was just pig-headed to adhere to an odd number: end up with a half-millimeter dimension on the working drawing.

I've been on both sides of the engineering/fabricating fence. It's dismaying when on the engineering side: we'll do a job completely in metric (with a lot of conversion), hand it over to a fabricator, only to have him convert it back to imperial. This makes little sense, even to me.

I've been on metric jobs where we were using a conveyor belt cover that came with imperial leg spacings, ended up with 1219 mm center-to-center of idlers, and similar oddball spacing of all the support steel framing. Oh, and at the last minute the cover supplier was switched, to one where it didn't matter a damn. But it was too late, too much invested in these nutty numbers.

Stuff like meat in the supermarket displays labels with diminutive weight per kilogram and large weight per pound. Something like a tub of margarine will have strange weights like 908 or 1362 grams, period. If you can do mental aerobics you twig on that it's 2 and 3 pounds, respectively.

One area where the authorities seem to have come to their senses is missing people reports: at least in Canada, if you report someone's height and weight in metric units, they tend to stay lost.

 

But each year, there are 12 fifths, and 31 May the somethings.

Star Wars Day doesn't work in DD MM YYYY, though.

 

Even their non-use of metric is wrong: they can't get the size of a gallon right, and they don't know what a stone is.

 

pretty sure this thread has been done before. nothings changed.

 

Yes. That's the problem.

 

not for me. and your right, star wars day supersedes any other arguments.

 

Twenty pounds is what my memory tells me, but Goggle says it's wrong.
I do know an acre is a furlough by a chain though.

 

It's one of my favourite episodes of Air Crash Investigation. I love the way that increasingly-unlikely problems come one after another, with the occupation of the runway being the best bit.

 

No, it's like a small rock.

And you can buy one for a farthing and a groat.

 

Yes. I'm very excited about the new one.

 

isn't everybody?