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Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
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Thu, 5 Oct 2000 06:07:05 GMT
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In lugnet.org.au, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.org.au, Todd Lehman writes:
> > In lugnet.org.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> > > Care to tell us what the dumbest thing is ????
> >
> > OK, the top dumbest thing is U.S. weights and measures (pounds, gallons,
> > inches, feet, miles, etc.) rather than the metric system, which fully rules.
> >
> > And the third dumbest thing is U.S. paper sizes (Letter, Ledger, Statement,
> > etc.) rather than paper sizes based on the square root of 2 (i.e., DIN A4,
> > B5, etc.)
Paper sizes ! Weights and measures are bad enough.
> ...oh, I forgot to mention...the DIN paper sizes fully rule. :-)
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> I just remembered the fouth dumbest thing: it's 12-hour clocks with a.m. and
> p.m. instead of 24-hour clocks -- especially digital alarm clocks. I wonder
> if anyone has ever -not- accidentally set their alarm for 8 p.m. thinking they
> were setting it for 8 a.m. because they were too exhausted at the end of the
> day to remember whether the a.m./p.m. indicator light meant a.m. or p.m. :-)
Working rotating shiftwork, this happens.
In the eighties I was working nightshift (midnight-8am) one night, when one of
the operators on evening shift came rushing in at 6am, thinking she was 2 hrs
late for a 4pm start. Strange thing was, she had finished her last shift at
midnight 6 hrs earlier.
The worst thing is waking up at twilight, not sure whether it's the morning
or the evening. Have I hardly slept or overslept.
-pw
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