• Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    Don’t mention A4 paper, it scares the Americans. If any of them could read, they would be very afraid right now.

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      Using entirely reasonable standards that most of the rest of the world has adopted is too hard for us for some reason.

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      8 months ago

      Today I’m going to use paper to feel superior to someone else.

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      8 months ago

      This week on “Things Non-Americans Think Americans Don’t Know About!”

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        Right?

        Like just because we export all our media to you (because it’s better) and make fun of our stereotypes in that media, doesn’t mean that most of us are like that. Believe it or not we actually have cool stuff that’s uniquely American.

        And the reason you see Kraft singles is because we don’t want to share our BBQ with you.

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            We can’t do everything for you guys. We’re holding down the imperial system almost single handedly. Help a brother out.

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            America has the Squid Games reality show and Mr Beast. They’re kind of like Taskmaster if the point of Taskmaster was dangling life changing money in front of poor people.

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            You’re proving my point though? Those all look like C rate game shows that show up in the worst time slots here in the states.

            If you said Doctor who, like 15 years ago, then I’d give you a solid maybe.

            • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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              look like

              Yeah that’s an American problem. Preferring a glossy looking garbage over something non-glamorous but substantial.

              FYI I’m neither American nor European.

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                Tell me what country you’re from, then, so I can look up how to roast it in the book of Places No One Gives a Shit About.

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              American here, you’re straight up wrong. We have no equivalent to their panel shows. Comparing them to game shows is like comparing open heart surgery to being stabbed.

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        It’s a size of paper with an aspect ratio of 1:√2, and the short edge that is 21cm long. The long edge will then be 21√2 = 29.7cm. The aspect ratio has the interesting property that it can be halved and doubled while remaining constant.

        This has been your ISO fact of the day.

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            ISO 7304-2:2008 defines a standard for cooking spaghetti. Subsection 3.9 “Completeness” closely resembles “al denté” but isn’t true al denté; as 3.9 states “no white core visible” when a noodle is inspected crosswise with a razor blade. Al denté phase is sensed via the teeth for texture differential of the inner and outer part of a spaghetti. No agreement has been reached by international consortium of Italian food preparers and dentists as to which tooth is to be used. Thus, the standard must be reviewed every 5 years by sensory analysis.