CorgiShinobi Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 (edited) The only "real" thing about cooties is the Hasbro game, "Cootie." Actually was pretty darn fun as a toddler. As for US currency, you may not think it, but it has gone through a lot of changes and shifts in the past century. I'm a big fan of the show "Pawn Stars" and it's genuinely the only History Channel show you'll actually learn anything. Probably the largest currency flop of my generation was the Sacagawea golden dollar. While as a kid I thought it was cool, and not to mention the Lewis-Clark expedition was huge in the community, consumers hated the thing. Eventually businesses wouldn't except it and about the only place you could use for golden dollars was for transit services. The latest and greatest endeavor now is to rid ourselves of the penny. EDIT: Depending on the school, kids have been learning metrics. Hell, I learned metrics in middle school. Do I use it? Well, depends on how often I get furniture from IKEA. (two years ago, btw.) Edited February 6, 2012 by Atomsk88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Your schools have dedicated cops? lolwut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Depends on the school and the environment. In my schools, there was a cop that handled small disputes. I can't exactly comment on other schools, but the impression I get is that you'll have a cop or cops when actual punishable crimes occur on school grounds. The ones with metal detectors, and etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Our high school had a cop, he was the "School Resource Officer" or something like that. Don't remember him ever actually doing anything though... 5. See with SI 100grams of butter is 100grams of butter. 100ml of milk is 100ml of milk. Not a cup = 8ounces of butter and 12ounces of milk. A cup is always 8 fluid oz, whether it's butter or milk. Not sure how many weight ounces of butter are in a cup of butter, because butter's always measured by volume... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 5. See with SI 100grams of butter is 100grams of butter. 100ml of milk is 100ml of milk. Not a cup = 8ounces of butter and 12ounces of milk. A cup is always 8 fluid oz, whether it's butter or milk. Not sure how many weight ounces of butter are in a cup of butter, because butter's always measured by volume... Was just throwing out random measurements. Blame battra, he's the one that said a cup = 8oz/half a pint/or liquid form=half a pound. Also why would you measure butter by volume? How would you do that in the first place? It's a pain enough as it is getting it in weight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope V2 Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 (edited) Was just throwing out random measurements. Blame battra, he's the one that said a cup = 8oz/half a pint/or liquid form=half a pound. Also why would you measure butter by volume? How would you do that in the first place? It's a pain enough as it is getting it in weight. It's pretty easy when baking. Just use the markers on the sticks of butter (usually in tablespoons or 1/2 cups) or just use a measuring cup if it's soft margarine. Easy. Edited February 6, 2012 by Yantelope V2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 (edited) Yeah it has little gradiations on it to tell you where to cut: *Edit* - If that Net Weight measurement is correct then it appears that one fluid ounce of butter = one weight ounce. That's handy, I guess. (Also, I would never, ever argue that Imperial makes more sense than metric. At least for cooking I would love if we switched to metric so I didn't have to look up conversions every damn time I want to cut a recipe in half.) Edited February 6, 2012 by TheMightyEthan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Also why would you measure butter by volume? How would you do that in the first place? It's a pain enough as it is getting it in weight. If you can't cut along the lines, I don't know what to tell you. We buy our butter by the lb (or half lb in rare circumstances.) I've seen recipes that have butter by weight (in my King Arthur Flour cookbook IIRC) but many times we also do measurements by "sticks" or quarter lbs of butter. If you're making anything with flour, that you should always measure by weight. Volumetric measurements (whether ml or cups) is always widely inaccurate. Professionals have always known this although flour also is a pain because its properties depend on the moisture in the air so one day you might need 19oz and the next day you might need 19.1oz. Of course that last little extra is usually done by feel and letting the dough kind of take control. Other than that, everything else can be measured volumetrically but if you've got the scale out and your recipe has both you might as well use them. One of the reasons for the "Cup" measurement was that scales were notoriously expensive so volumetric measurements for home cooks were devised. Since most people had cups, teaspoons etc. one could approximate a recipe using household items. I used to work in the precious metals industry so I even had to learn Troy Ounces because that's what the world still uses on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Some of our tubs have measures on the side too. But it's in grams. Which yantes example lists it in lbs, which is weight. Tablespoons as a measure isn't used on solids like butter, it's for powers and liquids, since it goes level (i.e baby powder, spices, olive oil, etc) And that's using these: (A common household spoon is 1. not all the same size. 2. hard to get a level measure since it's not flat along the edge.) Liquids go in a jug like so: And everything else on a scale: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Our butter doesn't come quite so delineated. Though I believe it does have blocks of 100g measured off on some packs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 (A common household spoon is 1. not all the same size. 2. hard to get a level measure since it's not flat along the edge.) You're assuming Americans use a teaspoon straight from the drawer. We use measuring spoons and have for decades. I'm talking about the origin of cups and tsp, tsb etc. The home kitchen scale is a very recent addition to most kitchens. Heck, a lot of kitchens who don't bake still don't use a scale. Still, a scale makes life easier for liquid measure as I can pour 8oz of milk into my bowl and know I just added a cup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Versus, I don't know what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 "Under the Hood" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Can anyone using US English in Chrome see if it says under the hood in their options? That would be quite cool if they've changed that, and quite unusual if they've used the UK version internationally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 It says under the hood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Yeah, that's actually how it came up, dean was telling me how to get to a certain option and I asked him if it really said "Under the Bonnet" in the UK version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 So I see these posted up fairly often (normally with people, not OSes of course, but this was the one at hand), how common are they in the states to have these stickers on rear windows showing the family numbers off? p.s do they have any .4 children stickers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 I feel like I've seen that kind of thing before, but they're not at all common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope V2 Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Mostly I just see the fish logos in Texas or people put the soccer or footballs on their windshield with the kid's name and number from school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Mostly I just see the fish logos in Texas or people put the soccer or footballs on their windshield with the kid's name and number from school. I've never seen combining the ΙΧΘΥΣ with the family stickers. Plenty of families around us have the ones showing off their family number or various ribbon causes. The ΙΧΘΥΣ is quite common around here as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Family stickers are a regional trend (as far as I'm aware), having started a few years ago. I've been living in Utah for the last three years and it was somewhere in 2010 they started popping up. I don't know if they started in Utah or Idaho, or if it was a California trend heading eastbound like In-N-Out. As you see in the picture, that's a Colorado plate, and I know they exist there. When I visited Indiana I don't believe I saw any family stickers. They started off pretty basic, but have become more personalized. My father still has the early basic stick figure styles, but now there are different kinds of logos and items. http://www.familystickers.com/ If they're the originators, then Boise, Idaho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 The vast majority don't have them, but I have seen a few in Alberta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Do Americans use the term 'mardy'? It's probably more a regional (mostly northern) and age thing (said to kids) here, but if a person is 'getting mardy' they are getting moody/frustrated or throwing a tantrum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Now then mardy bum, I've seen your frown and it's like looking down the barrel of a gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Ugh, not them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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