She thought there were 2.5. Weird, right?
That's quite specific right there. Incidentally, in Australia a tablespoon is equal to four teaspoons. (Based on the metric system. They're 5 ml and 20 ml respectively.)
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Sep 07, 2011 7:00:34 pm PDT #24710 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
JenP - Sep 07, 2011 7:06:48 pm PDT #24711 of 30001
I know! It was just odd. And I did not know that about t/T in Australia. But now I do, and no one had better ever try to contradict me, because I will be RIGHT. And possibly vulgar.
The metric system. I wish I'd grown up with that. It's seems so logical, and precise, and yet, since I didn't grow up with it, and we don't use it here, it's kind of mysterious.
brenda m - Sep 07, 2011 7:13:33 pm PDT #24712 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Incidentally, in Australia a tablespoon is equal to four teaspoons. (Based on the metric system. They're 5 ml and 20 ml respectively.)
That is just wrong. Those are neither teaspoons nor tablespoons. You already have more exact and usable units of measure, you don't need to confuse ours.
billytea - Sep 07, 2011 7:19:21 pm PDT #24713 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
That is just wrong. Those are neither teaspoons nor tablespoons. You already have more exact and usable units of measure, you don't need to confuse ours.
Hey, I sympathise. By which, of course, I mean point and mock from a safe distance.
SPOOOOOON!
-t - Sep 07, 2011 7:20:26 pm PDT #24714 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
5 ml is pretty close to a teaspoon. And half-centiliter is unwieldy.
meara - Sep 07, 2011 7:29:47 pm PDT #24715 of 30001
But I thought it was three! Why does Oz measure differently?
Worst plane ride ever--guy took offense at me telling his gf her cell was supposed to be off and threatened me for the next 20 minutes. Kinda scary really, especially since I was in te window seat. Way to end the vacation.
Vortex - Sep 07, 2011 7:31:08 pm PDT #24716 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I agree with meara, it's three teaspoons to a tablespoon.
zuisa - Sep 07, 2011 7:33:05 pm PDT #24717 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
It's always been three teaspoons to a tablespoon here too!
American measurement systems are really, really wacky.
-t - Sep 07, 2011 7:42:54 pm PDT #24718 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yikes, meara, that's awful! I hope you are off the plane and far away from that guy now.
Strix - Sep 07, 2011 7:44:07 pm PDT #24719 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
WTF, meara?
I think I would have been tempted to alert a stewttendant. Threatening you? Um, no. Air marshall!