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Medium Dave ([info]mediumdave) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2005-07-12 13:26:00
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Ugly American in grisly pileup! (just a little Tour de France wank)
A year ago I wouldn't have expected political wanking in a cycling community... hanging out in the wank communities has been quite an education. Bless all of your blackened little hearts.

So this one starts when cyclingfencer is shocked and appalled that the commentators covering the Tour de France (for the Outdoor Life Network, or OLN) refer to all the distances in kilometers. But it's in Europe, you say? Doesn't matter.

Naturally, there's a bit of WTF?!

So cyclingfencer clarifies his position: Why should we conform to the rest of the world, it all sucks outside of the US!

Of course, the French especially suck.

It kinda goes downhill from there, with the others mocking fencerboy for being divorced, and him calling them "smelly hippys" (sic)

But in the last comment, cheshire house wins the stage with, Turn off the audio, scrub all the "mm" markings off your bike components, and go soak your head. (Formidable!)

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[info]kadath
2005-07-12 07:34 pm UTC (link)
[info]cyclingfencer is one of those reactionary idiots who make my job about twice as hard as it has to be. One of these days I'm going to move to Europe so I can calculate stress in Pascals.

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[info]mediumdave
2005-07-12 09:55 pm UTC (link)
Tell me about it; I'm a tech writer. :)

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[info]renata_hpjc
2005-07-13 02:27 am UTC (link)
Chemists have long since converted. I can just see us measuring mass in slugs and volume in fluid ounces -- ummm, no. I feel quite sorry for you -- which backwards field do you work in?

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(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2005-07-13 02:33 am UTC
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[info]the_wanlorn
2005-07-12 07:52 pm UTC (link)
I would sell my spleen to have the standard in the US be the metric system.

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[info]the_clansmen
2005-07-12 10:22 pm UTC (link)
You give one kidney, I'll give another, and then maybe we'll get something changed.

Course cyclingfencer's brain would fetch the highest price of anything, since it's never been used. [/old joke]

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(no subject) - [info]the_wanlorn, 2005-07-12 10:32 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]also_not_a_pipe, 2005-07-13 06:30 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]also_not_a_pipe, 2005-07-14 05:34 am UTC

[info]prettypinkkitty
2005-07-12 08:39 pm UTC (link)
The OLN commentators are my babydaddies! They're hilarious!

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[info]azhidahaki
2005-07-13 12:53 pm UTC (link)
*is watching the tour right now*

Yeah, they do a good job. Though sometimes I want them to tie Bob's hands down. LOL

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[info]eilan
2005-07-12 08:54 pm UTC (link)
Test

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[info]eilan
2005-07-12 08:55 pm UTC (link)
Why will it post that and not my real comment? I don't get it...

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[info]eilan
2005-07-12 08:58 pm UTC (link)
Never said the metric system was a just wondering why the good old USA has to conform to the rest of the third world nations.

No words.

Oh, and the Fahrenheit is really close to life. Yeah, just take the freezing point of some alcohol-water mixture and say 'that is 0' and then the body temperature and say 'that is 100'. Great system. Also, I want to see him/her/it telling 33 degrees Fahrenheit and 34 degrees Fahrenheit apart. Not possible. Most people can't even tell 20 and 22 degree Celsius apart.

Especially interesting wank as I just started this thread over in _scientists_ this morning.

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[info]eilan
2005-07-12 08:58 pm UTC (link)
And suddenly, JF likes me again :)

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[info]mediumdave
2005-07-12 09:58 pm UTC (link)
One RL friend of mine is constantly saying (apropos of nothing at all) "Dave, you're a scientist..." so I'll go have a look.

Hmm. Maybe there's enough material out there to justify creating a community called metric_wank?

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(no subject) - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2005-07-13 01:18 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mistressrenet, 2005-07-13 01:31 pm UTC

[info]eilan
2005-07-12 09:02 pm UTC (link)
To spam this post further, seeing as I can finally reply. cyclingfenser seems to be really popular. 129 journal entries and 14 comments. Maybe he/she/it just wants some attention...

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(no subject) - [info]ruuger, 2005-07-12 11:23 pm UTC
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[info]beccastareyes
2005-07-12 10:14 pm UTC (link)
Anyone want to tell this gentleman that nearly every US scientist (at least, all the physicists and chemists I know) uses the metric system because it makes the conversions so much easier? (Well, when we don't make up our own units -- I love nuclear physics, relativity, and astrophysics)

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[info]the_clansmen
2005-07-12 10:18 pm UTC (link)
God forbid Americans should use the much simpler metric system, right?

Sincerely,

An American who wishes we could just switch over already, and who can also never remember how many feet are in a mile.

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(no subject) - [info]runrunmarch, 2005-07-12 10:46 pm UTC
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[info]twocorpses
2005-07-12 10:29 pm UTC (link)
just wondering why the good old USA has to conform to the rest of the third world nations

Since when is Canada a third world nation? I guess because we aren't the good ol' U S of A?

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(no subject) - [info]prettypinkkitty, 2005-07-12 10:46 pm UTC
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[info]gal_montag
2005-07-13 01:29 am UTC (link)
That dude is high. On many different drugs. Also, he is drinking heavily. However this comment: Please, I would prefer it if you referred to them as "the Freedom," rather than "the French." wins the thread.

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[info]sidhebastardess
2005-07-13 03:26 am UTC (link)
*sigh* I wish we'd switch. I also wish that my elementary school teachers had tried harder when they "taught" us the metric system.

And, I guess we're the only first-world nation in the world, huh?

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flightstothesea
2005-07-13 04:36 am UTC (link)
*hops aboard the why-the-hell-doesn't-my-country-use-metric wagon*

Also, at times like this I'm reminded of the bit in Good Omens about how the British resisted the switch to decimalised currency because they thought it was too complicated.

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[info]azhidahaki
2005-07-13 01:06 pm UTC (link)
Wow! Wank in my fandom! And it's not about doping!

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[info]bubosquared
2005-07-13 02:35 pm UTC (link)
What I mean is the US system of measure relates to human beings much better than the metric system

I take it [info]cyclingfencer has twelve* fingers, then?

* Or however many inches there are in a foot. Factors of ten, people, factors of TEN! *clings to metric system*

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(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2005-07-13 03:04 pm UTC
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[info]indis_earfalas
2005-07-13 03:23 pm UTC (link)
WTF???

This guy is ...

I dunno.

Nuts.


I really couldn't care less, who uses what - it makes no difference to me. I was educated using the metric system, but I know both ways ('cause my Mum STILL uses imperial hehe). Out of curiosity though ... I tried to find out who actually still uses the imperial system.

Only the United States, Liberia and Myanmar.

So far as I can tell anyway.

Mind you - from what I gather, he also thinks that the petrol prices rising is a GOOD thing and loves the fact that his SUV (was it that?) uses lots of natural resources.

Oddness.

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(Anonymous)
2005-07-14 01:15 am UTC (link)
"As I said, I love the sport, and just love see how stupid the French look on TV."

I wanted to answer something infantile along the lines "That's okay, we love to see how fat and ugly Americans look on TV".

Then I smacked myself and remembered that the US aren't only full of asshats who think insulting us will ever make us like them and want to help them; there are also decent people.

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(no subject) - [info]mastervex, 2005-07-14 01:38 am UTC
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[info]aerobot
2005-07-14 08:29 am UTC (link)
......... Wow, I'm at a loss for words here.

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(Anonymous)
2005-07-14 05:50 pm UTC (link)
Oo no account, but oh boy.

and he lives in ME? out of my state, please. we don't need anybody else like him up here.

I'd rather deal with metric. less numbers to deal with, and less math.

~virgo186 (LJ)

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