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.
Hockey
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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
robocall@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Did you see that astroid that was hundreds of lions wide?
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It weighed the same as the amount of jello ppwder required to make five Olympic swimming pools full of jello.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
No, but I did see the one that was a million antlions across.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Football pitches are often for size comparisons here in the UK.
manucode@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Same in Germany, and, for much larger areas, Saarlands are used as a comparison
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Neutral Zone Kush hits hard.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Personally I’m all about that Exclusion Zone kush
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
If thats a STALKER refrence Im playing through those now to get ready for the new one.
friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Did someone say turnover? 'Cause I’ve got the munchies
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
They should start calling Canadian pre rolls ‘one timers’
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 days 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 2 days ago
None of them need dashes. I guess two is my favorite if I have to have a dash.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days ago
Phrases containing a proper noun should not be hyphenated.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 days ago
Joke’s on you, there is no noun
Patrizsche@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Can’t even enjoy a sport anymore😮💨
Mango@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Could you ever?
DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
It’s…beautiful. Sniff.
wizzor@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
On behalf of all Nordic countries, I approve of this.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago
I know they’re at least 100 yards long. And a yard is about the same as a meter.
franklin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can dunk so hard on a country with federally legal weed.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Or just say 14 by 14 meters?
Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 day 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 1 day 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 2 days ago
Canadian couples only have sex doggy-style, so they can both watch the hockey game.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 days 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 2 days ago
That way you enjoy your poutine as you enjoy poutine.
vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Followed by X-Files of course.
Aremel@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They’re only mammals after all.