This is America, speak English!

That I can't put a green on ignore

Especially when discussing 70s metal bands, or documentaries.

Sorry, I'll try to post less.

LOL

Who says the mods here won't try to work with you?

When the breakfast buffet doesn't have an umlaut station.

When I äccidently umlaut on myself and don't have time to change.

hardcore fans of a band who don't like the band's most popular song

that there is also a "long ton" which is 1016.047 kg

That's almost as stupid as the "metric mile" which is sometimes used to describe a 1500m race (the standard mid distance in international track & field) while US high schools use the term to describe a 1600m race because almost every track built since the 70s actually uses 400m instead of a quarter mile for a lap in the inner lane.

To make it even more ridiculous, the track where we previously did our speed work at has another thin line marker 9.34m past the start/finish line so you can complete a statute mile by doing four laps plus that bit.

Equally stupid in swimming. 1500m which is a popular long pool swim distance and the standard "Olympic" distance in triathlon is called a swimmer's mile. When I got asked for the first time about my mile time I was totally confused because how the F do you know your 1609m time in the pool? Then I figured they're talking about 1600m so I just added 100m to my 1500m time.

Germans

Sporks

The different formats do seem to make sense given American vs Euro ways of saying the date out loud (like "April 12th" vs "12th of April"), but then it raises the chicken-and-egg question of whether the written format came as a result of the way it's said, or vice versa.

I won't say I don't like Tom Sawyer but I am sick of hearing it and it isn't close to their best song. Does that count?

It's literally the only Rush song I'll change the station for or skip over in a random playlist, but I did like the song up until I heard it for the 10000th time, so if it's similar for you, yeah probably doesn't count.

A better example might be a band with one (or very few) mainstream hits. Like I would assume a ton of hardcore Dead fans don't particularly like "Touch of Grey", maybe?

Speaking as a 'soft-core' Dead fan, Truckin'. That's the one I'll skip.

(~60 shows thru 1995, plus a handful of the more recent iterations)

that's because touch of grey is a huge departure for them from their typical music, the kind of people who love the dead wouldn't be deeply into a more generic pop song like that


tom sawyer is just as weird as all the other rush stuff

Pretty much my point. So I guess basically Bank is posting correctly, because that shouldn't piss him off lol.

A human disease that, unfortunately, has yet to be eradicated.

the type of quality post that keeps me subscribed

Don’t belong in this thread (and didn’t in Poland but that didn’t stop Adolf)…of course they should piss you off

Saw an SUV with a 13.1 sticker and a 26.2 sticker. Once you do a marathon you should be required to remove the 13.1.

I know when I bowl my first 300 game, the 150 sticker comes off

Ooh, that's a good addition to the thread even though you weren't making it an addition.

I did laugh the first time I saw a 0.0 sticker though.

Euros

Can you keep the 26.2 after doing a 50k?

What about 26.2 and 70.3 at the same time or 140.6?