Football pitches are often for size comparisons here in the UK.
Hockey
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Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 5 months ago
manucode@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Same in Germany, and, for much larger areas, Saarlands are used as a comparison
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Because saying “A square 14m x 14m” is too confusing somehow… I hate when they do it for huge surfaces though, like for forest fires as people don’t comprehend big numbers like “100 000 football fields”, but they sure can understand that 100km is a long distance so a 100km x 100km square is fucking huge.
robocall@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Did you see that astroid that was hundreds of lions wide?
jaybone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It weighed the same as the amount of jello ppwder required to make five Olympic swimming pools full of jello.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
No, but I did see the one that was a million antlions across.
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Neutral Zone Kush hits hard.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Personally I’m all about that Exclusion Zone kush
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
If thats a STALKER refrence Im playing through those now to get ready for the new one.
friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Did someone say turnover? 'Cause I’ve got the munchies
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
They should start calling Canadian pre rolls ‘one timers’
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 months ago
standard North-American sized
Can we please standardize handling of dashes in multi-word adverb-adjective phrases?
Option 1: North American-sized (most common)
Option 2: North-American sized (as seen in the article)
Option 3: North-American-sized (makes most sense to me)robocall@lemmy.world 5 months ago
None of them need dashes. I guess two is my favorite if I have to have a dash.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There is a standard, compound modifiers preceding the noun. There are also exceptions, proper nouns and their transformations don’t get hyphenated.
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Phrases containing a proper noun should not be hyphenated.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 months ago
Joke’s on you, there is no noun
Patrizsche@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Can’t even enjoy a sport anymore😮💨
Mango@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Could you ever?
DrBob@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
It’s…beautiful. Sniff.
wizzor@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
On behalf of all Nordic countries, I approve of this.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Makes sense. I’ll never know how big ‘a football field’ is as I’ve never seen one. I assume it’s just under half a hectare (which is 1 hectometer on a side).
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Including end zones, an American football field is precisely 360 feet long and 160 feet wide, or approximately 110m x 50m. The area is 1.32 acres.
It’s precisely defined so I’m okay with it being used as an area of length or area, especially since virtually all Americans have personal experience with football fields, having at the very least been required to run four laps of the quarter-mile track you usually find wrapped around one.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
I know they’re at least 100 yards long. And a yard is about the same as a meter.
franklin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can dunk so hard on a country with federally legal weed.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Or just say 14 by 14 meters?
Umbrias@beehaw.org 5 months ago
The regulation appears to be based on the area of the plot, not the dimensions. By assigning explicitly annotated dimensions it can confuse the intended message more than using a goofy but useful analogy.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
What a terrible measurement. They have to put in the title and margins the size of the rink just so people can understand it
DickFiasco@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Canadian couples only have sex doggy-style, so they can both watch the hockey game.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
As an added bonus, I can also use my wife’s lower back to rest my poutine. She says it provides a nice warming sensation.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
That way you enjoy your poutine as you enjoy poutine.
vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Followed by X-Files of course.
Aremel@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They’re only mammals after all.