What do Americans call this sign? #

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Black holes are where god divided by zero.

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

On 3/13/2016 11:31 AM, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

octothorpe

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:31:30 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most definitely isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our unit of currency! We never buy something for #3.25!

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I woke up this morning with a huge correction.

Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

I am 100% an unemployable ****** who has not had a **** for years.
I'm a 42 year old failure with no future, no cash and no woman. I
stink and my council flat stinks.
I have a hand job over every reply I get.
Would you like to visit me and wank off my little dick?

On 3/13/2016 2:35 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:31:30 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.


We might live in the real world but may be a minority today.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:51:22 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:35 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:31:30 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.

We might live in the real world but may be a minority today.

I just tried searching by # on facebook, and I guess it could be useful. But I don't see why there has to be a hash. Google can search the internet without search terms having to have a # on them. This seems a backwards step. I certainly can't be bothered selecting words that I feel are important every time I post to Facebook.

As for Twitter, that reminds me of using DOS. Where is the interface? It's just unconnected sentences from people with no threading or anything.

--
I'm not a "troll", I'm an Agitation Engineer.

On 3/13/2016 1:55 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:51:22 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:35 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:31:30 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #


number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.

We might live in the real world but may be a minority today.

I just tried searching by # on facebook, and I guess it could be
useful. But I don't see why there has to be a hash. Google can search
the internet without search terms having to have a # on them. This
seems a backwards step. I certainly can't be bothered selecting words
that I feel are important every time I post to Facebook.

As for Twitter, that reminds me of using DOS. Where is the interface?
It's just unconnected sentences from people with no threading or anything.


You did ask "What do *Americans* call this sign? #"

As far as I know,just like bob_villain said, we mostly call it either a
pound sign or number sign in general use. Although, twitter uses the
sign for their own purposes, I suppose that's become common place, too.

--
Maggie

"Mr Macaw" wrote in message news On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most definitely
isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our unit of currency!
We never buy something for #3.25!

----------

25# sack of potatoes.

"On 3/13/16 2:40 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most
definitely isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our
unit of currency! We never buy something for #3.25!


You asked "What do *Americans* call this sign? #"
Americans in the former colonies do use # to indicate "pounds" for
weight, as in pounds and ounces.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:34:12 -0000, Muggles wrote:

On 3/13/2016 1:55 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:51:22 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:35 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:31:30 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #


number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.

We might live in the real world but may be a minority today.

I just tried searching by # on facebook, and I guess it could be
useful. But I don't see why there has to be a hash. Google can search
the internet without search terms having to have a # on them. This
seems a backwards step. I certainly can't be bothered selecting words
that I feel are important every time I post to Facebook.

As for Twitter, that reminds me of using DOS. Where is the interface?
It's just unconnected sentences from people with no threading or anything.


You did ask "What do *Americans* call this sign? #"

As far as I know,just like bob_villain said, we mostly call it either a
pound sign or number sign in general use. Although, twitter uses the
sign for their own purposes, I suppose that's become common place, too.

Pound sign is just wrong. It would be like me calling it a dollar sign. A dollar is clearly $ as it's used for currency.

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Runtime Error 6D at 417A:32CF: Incompetent User.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:43:08 -0000, taxed and spent wrote:


"Mr Macaw" wrote in message news On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most definitely
isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our unit of currency!
We never buy something for #3.25!

----------

25# sack of potatoes.

Oh that kind of pound, I forgot you still used old weights and measures. The correct symbol for that is "lb". 25# suggests the number of potatoes in the sack.

--
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:22:28 -0000
"Mr Macaw" wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #


Pound sand up your ass.

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 2:49:35 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:43:08 -0000, taxed and spent wrote:


"Mr Macaw" wrote in message news On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most definitely
isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our unit of currency!
We never buy something for #3.25!

----------

25# sack of potatoes.

Oh that kind of pound, I forgot you still used old weights and measures. The correct symbol for that is "lb". 25# suggests the number of potatoes in the sack.

--
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

Why do you try to pedal your idiocy to us...keep it over there and get off the ****ing soapbox! à²*︵à²*凸

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:59:07 -0000, bob_villain wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 2:49:35 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:43:08 -0000, taxed and spent wrote:


"Mr Macaw" wrote in message news On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most definitely
isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our unit of currency!
We never buy something for #3.25!

----------

25# sack of potatoes.

Oh that kind of pound, I forgot you still used old weights and measures. The correct symbol for that is "lb". 25# suggests the number of potatoes in the sack.

--
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

Why do you try to pedal your idiocy to us...keep it over there and get off the ****ing soapbox! à²*︵à²*凸

We're not the ones that mislabel symbols.

--
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On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:22:28 -0500, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #

72# = 72 pounds.
#72 = number 72.
My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods.
We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc.
Miles, yards, feets and inches.
A meter in my world measures electrical stuff.

Most of us might be crazy but it's the crazy people that
invent things.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends
on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw.



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On 3/13/2016 2:31 PM, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #


number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

I read some where it's called octothorpe.

In my youth, it was tic tac toe board.

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On 3/13/2016 2:48 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:34:12 -0000, Muggles
wrote:

On 3/13/2016 1:55 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:51:22 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:35 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:31:30 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #


number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.

We might live in the real world but may be a minority today.

I just tried searching by # on facebook, and I guess it could be
useful. But I don't see why there has to be a hash. Google can search
the internet without search terms having to have a # on them. This
seems a backwards step. I certainly can't be bothered selecting words
that I feel are important every time I post to Facebook.

As for Twitter, that reminds me of using DOS. Where is the interface?
It's just unconnected sentences from people with no threading or
anything.


You did ask "What do *Americans* call this sign? #"

As far as I know,just like bob_villain said, we mostly call it either a
pound sign or number sign in general use. Although, twitter uses the
sign for their own purposes, I suppose that's become common place, too.


Pound sign is just wrong. It would be like me calling it a dollar
sign. A dollar is clearly $ as it's used for currency.


An American #(pound) sign is for measuring weight of things, but a
British pound sign is for measuring money. They both can represent "pound".
--
Maggie

On 3/13/2016 3:43 PM, Retired wrote:
"On 3/13/16 2:40 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most
definitely isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our
unit of currency! We never buy something for #3.25!


You asked "What do *Americans* call this sign? #"
Americans in the former colonies do use # to indicate "pounds" for
weight, as in pounds and ounces.

After we drove King George out, we really #ed his ass?

A pint's a # the world around?

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Christopher A. Young
learn more about Jesus
.. www.lds.org
..
..

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:38:17 -0000, Muggles wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:48 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:34:12 -0000, Muggles
wrote:

On 3/13/2016 1:55 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:51:22 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:35 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:31:30 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #


number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.

We might live in the real world but may be a minority today.

I just tried searching by # on facebook, and I guess it could be
useful. But I don't see why there has to be a hash. Google can search
the internet without search terms having to have a # on them. This
seems a backwards step. I certainly can't be bothered selecting words
that I feel are important every time I post to Facebook.

As for Twitter, that reminds me of using DOS. Where is the interface?
It's just unconnected sentences from people with no threading or
anything.


You did ask "What do *Americans* call this sign? #"

As far as I know,just like bob_villain said, we mostly call it either a
pound sign or number sign in general use. Although, twitter uses the
sign for their own purposes, I suppose that's become common place, too.


Pound sign is just wrong. It would be like me calling it a dollar
sign. A dollar is clearly $ as it's used for currency.


An American #(pound) sign is for measuring weight of things, but a
British pound sign is for measuring money. They both can represent "pound".

lb

--
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On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:37:01 -0000, Stormin Mormon wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:31 PM, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #


number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

I read some where it's called octothorpe.

Something to do with a village?

In my youth, it was tic tac toe board.

Nought and crosses.

--
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On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:33:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:22:28 -0500, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #

72# = 72 pounds.
#72 = number 72.
My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods.
We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc.
Miles, yards, feets and inches.

That must make school hell. We can change from one thing to another, like metres to kilometres simply by multiplying or dividing by 1000.

A meter in my world measures electrical stuff.

Meter, metre.

Most of us might be crazy but it's the crazy people that
invent things.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends
on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw.

Wise words.

--
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower. I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden. -- Eric Morecambe

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:48:27 -0000, "Mr Macaw" wrote:

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:34:12 -0000, Muggles wrote:

On 3/13/2016 1:55 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:51:22 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:35 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:31:30 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #


number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.

We might live in the real world but may be a minority today.

I just tried searching by # on facebook, and I guess it could be
useful. But I don't see why there has to be a hash. Google can search
the internet without search terms having to have a # on them. This
seems a backwards step. I certainly can't be bothered selecting words
that I feel are important every time I post to Facebook.

As for Twitter, that reminds me of using DOS. Where is the interface?
It's just unconnected sentences from people with no threading or anything.


You did ask "What do *Americans* call this sign? #"

As far as I know,just like bob_villain said, we mostly call it either a
pound sign or number sign in general use. Although, twitter uses the
sign for their own purposes, I suppose that's become common place, too.

Pound sign is just wrong. It would be like me calling it a dollar sign. A dollar is clearly $ as it's used for currency.

You are one arrogant asshole. You asked what we Americans called it and when we answered you told us we are wrong. You sound
a lot like our hubris asshole-in-chief in D.C.

On 3/13/2016 3:45 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:38:17 -0000, Muggles
wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:48 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:34:12 -0000, Muggles
wrote:

On 3/13/2016 1:55 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:51:22 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:35 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:31:30 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #


number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.

We might live in the real world but may be a minority today.

I just tried searching by # on facebook, and I guess it could be
useful. But I don't see why there has to be a hash. Google can
search
the internet without search terms having to have a # on them. This
seems a backwards step. I certainly can't be bothered selecting words
that I feel are important every time I post to Facebook.

As for Twitter, that reminds me of using DOS. Where is the interface?
It's just unconnected sentences from people with no threading or
anything.


You did ask "What do *Americans* call this sign? #"

As far as I know,just like bob_villain said, we mostly call it either a
pound sign or number sign in general use. Although, twitter uses the
sign for their own purposes, I suppose that's become common place, too.


Pound sign is just wrong. It would be like me calling it a dollar
sign. A dollar is clearly $ as it's used for currency.


An American #(pound) sign is for measuring weight of things, but a
British pound sign is for measuring money. They both can represent
"pound".

lb


lb is one way we abbreviate pound, but # is a symbol we also use for pound.

--
Maggie

On 03/13/2016 12:22 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

Octothorpe.

On 3/13/2016 1:52 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:33:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:22:28 -0500, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #

72# = 72 pounds.
#72 = number 72.
My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods.
We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc.

Dash, pinch, tsp, tbsp, jigger, gill, etc.

Miles, yards, feets and inches.

That must make school hell.

Why? 2T = 1oz 2oz = "double" 2 doubles = gill 2 gills = cup
2 cups = pint, 2 pints = halfG, 2 halfG = G, etc.

But, most folks don't care. They buy things in a "familiar
size" and think of that thing *in* that familiar size.

E.g., flour comes in 5 lb sacks; sugar (recently) in 4 lb.
OJ comes in (nominally) 56 oz containers.

Do you buy your ketchup by the liter? (I suspect ketchup,
here, is sold in a dozen or more different "sizes")
What about your horseradish? And, are your spices sold
in 1g, 10g and 100g units? Never "3g" or "7g"?

We also don't need to drag out a *scale* to bake things
as we KNOW that chemistries tend to require common rations
(e.g., 2:1, 4:1, etc.) and can use volumetric measures
(instead of laddling ingredients onto a scale).

How big is an "egg"? Do you have metric dozens of eggs?
Do you have 100 minutes in your hours? 100 days in your years?

"That must make school HELL!" -- having to remember TWO different
schemes of measurement, one that deals with radix 10 and others
that deal with 12's, 24's, 60's, 365's, etc.

We can change from one thing to another, like
metres to kilometres simply by multiplying or dividing by 1000.

Really? How many stones in a kg? How many 0's in a Billion?

A meter in my world measures electrical stuff.

Meter, metre.

Most of us might be crazy but it's the crazy people that
invent things.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends
on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw.

Wise words.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:33:57 -0000, Don Y wrote:

On 3/13/2016 1:52 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:33:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:22:28 -0500, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #

72# = 72 pounds.
#72 = number 72.
My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods.
We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc.

Dash, pinch, tsp, tbsp, jigger, gill, etc.

Miles, yards, feets and inches.

That must make school hell.

Why? 2T = 1oz 2oz = "double" 2 doubles = gill 2 gills = cup
2 cups = pint, 2 pints = halfG, 2 halfG = G, etc.

Way too complicated. Metric is made that way for a reason. You seem to have chosen things that have 2 of something else in them. That is hardly ever the case. Yards in a mile? Pounds in a stone?

But, most folks don't care. They buy things in a "familiar
size" and think of that thing *in* that familiar size.

E.g., flour comes in 5 lb sacks; sugar (recently) in 4 lb.
OJ comes in (nominally) 56 oz containers.

Easier when everything is in the same measure, either litres or kg.

Do you buy your ketchup by the liter? (I suspect ketchup,
here, is sold in a dozen or more different "sizes")
What about your horseradish? And, are your spices sold
in 1g, 10g and 100g units? Never "3g" or "7g"?

All sorts of sizes, but we know what a gram is. The UNIT is always the same.

We also don't need to drag out a *scale* to bake things
as we KNOW that chemistries tend to require common rations
(e.g., 2:1, 4:1, etc.) and can use volumetric measures
(instead of laddling ingredients onto a scale).

We can do that if we like. But a scale is easier to get that 4:1 ratio correct instead of guessing by how big the pile is.

How big is an "egg"? Do you have metric dozens of eggs?
Do you have 100 minutes in your hours? 100 days in your years?

It would be easier.

"That must make school HELL!" -- having to remember TWO different
schemes of measurement, one that deals with radix 10 and others
that deal with 12's, 24's, 60's, 365's, etc.

At least we made some of it easier.

We can change from one thing to another, like
metres to kilometres simply by multiplying or dividing by 1000.

Really? How many stones in a kg? How many 0's in a Billion?

Why would we use stones and kg?

A meter in my world measures electrical stuff.

Meter, metre.

Most of us might be crazy but it's the crazy people that
invent things.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends
on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw.

Wise words.

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United 239: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this... I've got the little Fokker in sight."

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:32:58 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/13/2016 12:22 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

Octothorpe.

That's the official name, but I've never heard anyone actually use it in everyday language.

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On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:32:58 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/13/2016 12:22 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

Octothorpe.

And this one? €½

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"Mr Macaw" wrote in message news On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:59:07 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 2:49:35 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:43:08 -0000, taxed and spent
wrote:


"Mr Macaw" wrote in message
news On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most
definitely
isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our unit of
currency!
We never buy something for #3.25!

----------

25# sack of potatoes.

Oh that kind of pound, I forgot you still used old weights and measures.
The correct symbol for that is "lb". 25# suggests the number of potatoes
in the sack.

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Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

Why do you try to pedal your idiocy to us...keep it over there and get off
the ****ing soapbox! ????

We're not the ones that mislabel symbols.

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----------------

What is the musical symbol for cymbals?

On 3/13/2016 2:44 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:33:57 -0000, Don Y wrote:

On 3/13/2016 1:52 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:33:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:22:28 -0500, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #

72# = 72 pounds.
#72 = number 72.
My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods.
We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc.

Dash, pinch, tsp, tbsp, jigger, gill, etc.

Miles, yards, feets and inches.

That must make school hell.

Why? 2T = 1oz 2oz = "double" 2 doubles = gill 2 gills = cup
2 cups = pint, 2 pints = halfG, 2 halfG = G, etc.

Way too complicated. Metric is made that way for a reason. You seem to have
chosen things that have 2 of something else in them. That is hardly ever the
case. Yards in a mile? Pounds in a stone?

Do you really think people *care* how many yards are in a mile?
We buy *fabric* by the yard. We drive our cars *miles*.
The fact that they are related is a consequence of the fact that
they are both used to measure distances.

If you build a picket fence, are the slats 0.1 meters apart?
Are each of them 1.0 meters tall?

Why do you have all those pesky other integers between 1 and 10?
And, 10 and 100? Why not just label your "rulers" with a logarithmic
scale: it's either 1mm, 10mm, 100mm or 1m. Anything else must
make school HELL!

But, most folks don't care. They buy things in a "familiar
size" and think of that thing *in* that familiar size.

E.g., flour comes in 5 lb sacks; sugar (recently) in 4 lb.
OJ comes in (nominally) 56 oz containers.

Easier when everything is in the same measure, either litres or kg.

Why? If I tell someone I bought a "half gallon" of OJ, they
know exactly what I mean! They can visualize the size, shape
and weight of the container in their mind. The fact that it
*isn't* a "half gallon" isn't even important to them!

They buy a "sack of flour". Probably know that it is 5 pounds.
But, that's beside the point. Esp as flour tends to be consumed in
quantities of *cups*! Do you think people know how many cups
of flour are in a 5 pound sack? Do you think they care?
"I need to buy flour" or "I've got enough flour for this recipe"
That;s all it takes. We don't weigh the remaining flour and check to
see if it's enough for the next Rx we intend to make.

I guess our brains are capable of more complex assessments than
expecting everything to "end in zero"...

Do you buy your ketchup by the liter? (I suspect ketchup,
here, is sold in a dozen or more different "sizes")
What about your horseradish? And, are your spices sold
in 1g, 10g and 100g units? Never "3g" or "7g"?

All sorts of sizes, but we know what a gram is. The UNIT is always the same.

We also don't need to drag out a *scale* to bake things
as we KNOW that chemistries tend to require common rations
(e.g., 2:1, 4:1, etc.) and can use volumetric measures
(instead of laddling ingredients onto a scale).

We can do that if we like. But a scale is easier to get that 4:1 ratio correct
instead of guessing by how big the pile is.

How big is an "egg"? Do you have metric dozens of eggs?
Do you have 100 minutes in your hours? 100 days in your years?

It would be easier.

Metric chickens?

Do you even *know* that there is "no such thing" as a "large egg"?

How do you grade your fruit? Measure the circumference and
sort based on the nearest decimeter? Or, are "large oranges"
no more precious than "tiny oranges"??

"That must make school HELL!" -- having to remember TWO different
schemes of measurement, one that deals with radix 10 and others
that deal with 12's, 24's, 60's, 365's, etc.

At least we made some of it easier.

And, when you have a third person show up for dinner, do you scale the
recipe (that "feeds two") up by a factor of *10*?

I guess we have learned to use *all* the numbers, on this side of
the pond. Not just the "easy ones"!

On 3/13/2016 3:11 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:32:58 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/13/2016 12:22 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

Octothorpe.

And this one? €½

interobang.

Stop trolling. Go play in the street (or, would you prefer "roadway"?)

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:27:26 -0000, taxed and spent wrote:


"Mr Macaw" wrote in message news On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:59:07 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 2:49:35 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:43:08 -0000, taxed and spent
wrote:


"Mr Macaw" wrote in message
news On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most
definitely
isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our unit of
currency!
We never buy something for #3.25!

----------

25# sack of potatoes.

Oh that kind of pound, I forgot you still used old weights and measures.
The correct symbol for that is "lb". 25# suggests the number of potatoes
in the sack.

--
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

Why do you try to pedal your idiocy to us...keep it over there and get off
the ****ing soapbox! ????

We're not the ones that mislabel symbols.

--
What is the musical symbol for cymbals?

X

--
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It's called the "Sheep Dog Bra"- it rounds them up and points them in the right direction.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:48:41 -0000, Don Y wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:44 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:33:57 -0000, Don Y wrote:

On 3/13/2016 1:52 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:33:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:22:28 -0500, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #

72# = 72 pounds.
#72 = number 72.
My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods.
We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc.

Dash, pinch, tsp, tbsp, jigger, gill, etc.

Miles, yards, feets and inches.

That must make school hell.

Why? 2T = 1oz 2oz = "double" 2 doubles = gill 2 gills = cup
2 cups = pint, 2 pints = halfG, 2 halfG = G, etc.

Way too complicated. Metric is made that way for a reason. You seem to have
chosen things that have 2 of something else in them. That is hardly ever the
case. Yards in a mile? Pounds in a stone?

Do you really think people *care* how many yards are in a mile?
We buy *fabric* by the yard. We drive our cars *miles*.
The fact that they are related is a consequence of the fact that
they are both used to measure distances.

If you build a picket fence, are the slats 0.1 meters apart?
Are each of them 1.0 meters tall?

Why do you have all those pesky other integers between 1 and 10?
And, 10 and 100? Why not just label your "rulers" with a logarithmic
scale: it's either 1mm, 10mm, 100mm or 1m. Anything else must
make school HELL!

How big is an acre? Try to imagine it in terms of square yards. Not easy.

But, most folks don't care. They buy things in a "familiar
size" and think of that thing *in* that familiar size.

E.g., flour comes in 5 lb sacks; sugar (recently) in 4 lb.
OJ comes in (nominally) 56 oz containers.

Easier when everything is in the same measure, either litres or kg.

Why? If I tell someone I bought a "half gallon" of OJ, they
know exactly what I mean! They can visualize the size, shape
and weight of the container in their mind. The fact that it
*isn't* a "half gallon" isn't even important to them!

It's when you're comparing a large size with a small size it gets difficult. For example how many pints of milk can you get from a 7 gallon drum?

They buy a "sack of flour". Probably know that it is 5 pounds.
But, that's beside the point. Esp as flour tends to be consumed in
quantities of *cups*!

There's the problem again, you buy a sack of flour. How many cups can you get out of it?

Do you think people know how many cups
of flour are in a 5 pound sack? Do you think they care?
"I need to buy flour" or "I've got enough flour for this recipe"
That;s all it takes. We don't weigh the remaining flour and check to
see if it's enough for the next Rx we intend to make.

You need to know how much of your recipe you can make with each sack.

I guess our brains are capable of more complex assessments than
expecting everything to "end in zero"...

Our numerical system is base 10, it makes sense to do calculations based on 10.

Do you buy your ketchup by the liter? (I suspect ketchup,
here, is sold in a dozen or more different "sizes")
What about your horseradish? And, are your spices sold
in 1g, 10g and 100g units? Never "3g" or "7g"?

All sorts of sizes, but we know what a gram is. The UNIT is always the same.

We also don't need to drag out a *scale* to bake things
as we KNOW that chemistries tend to require common rations
(e.g., 2:1, 4:1, etc.) and can use volumetric measures
(instead of laddling ingredients onto a scale).

We can do that if we like. But a scale is easier to get that 4:1 ratio correct
instead of guessing by how big the pile is.

How big is an "egg"? Do you have metric dozens of eggs?
Do you have 100 minutes in your hours? 100 days in your years?

It would be easier.

Metric chickens?

Obviously everything can't be made metric.

Do you even *know* that there is "no such thing" as a "large egg"?

WTF€½ Of course there is. There will be measurement for it to qualify as such.

How do you grade your fruit? Measure the circumference and
sort based on the nearest decimeter? Or, are "large oranges"
no more precious than "tiny oranges"??

You buy them by the kg.

"That must make school HELL!" -- having to remember TWO different
schemes of measurement, one that deals with radix 10 and others
that deal with 12's, 24's, 60's, 365's, etc.

At least we made some of it easier.

And, when you have a third person show up for dinner, do you scale the
recipe (that "feeds two") up by a factor of *10*?

I guess we have learned to use *all* the numbers, on this side of
the pond. Not just the "easy ones"!

We use the same numbers, but we don't have to remember how many of each thing goes into each other thing.

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On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:49:29 -0000, Don Y wrote:

On 3/13/2016 3:11 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:32:58 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/13/2016 12:22 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

Octothorpe.

And this one? €½

interobang.

I didn't think anyone had ever heard of that. I've certainly never seen it used before.

Stop trolling.

It was just a question. Why do you consider it trolling?

Go play in the street (or, would you prefer "roadway"?)

Road for a route between towns. Street in a residential area. Don't you know anything?

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On 3/13/2016 4:02 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:48:41 -0000, Don Y wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:44 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:33:57 -0000, Don Y wrote:

On 3/13/2016 1:52 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:33:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:22:28 -0500, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #

72# = 72 pounds.
#72 = number 72.
My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods.
We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc.

Dash, pinch, tsp, tbsp, jigger, gill, etc.

Miles, yards, feets and inches.

That must make school hell.

Why? 2T = 1oz 2oz = "double" 2 doubles = gill 2 gills = cup
2 cups = pint, 2 pints = halfG, 2 halfG = G, etc.

Way too complicated. Metric is made that way for a reason. You seem to have
chosen things that have 2 of something else in them. That is hardly ever the
case. Yards in a mile? Pounds in a stone?

Do you really think people *care* how many yards are in a mile?
We buy *fabric* by the yard. We drive our cars *miles*.
The fact that they are related is a consequence of the fact that
they are both used to measure distances.

If you build a picket fence, are the slats 0.1 meters apart?
Are each of them 1.0 meters tall?

Why do you have all those pesky other integers between 1 and 10?
And, 10 and 100? Why not just label your "rulers" with a logarithmic
scale: it's either 1mm, 10mm, 100mm or 1m. Anything else must
make school HELL!

How big is an acre? Try to imagine it in terms of square yards. Not easy.

We don't imagine acres in terms of square yards. I doubt many people want
to cover their lawns with FABRIC!

How many liters in a swimming pool? How many liters does your BATHTUB hold?
(presumably most homes HAVE bathtubs -- wouldn't their owners want/need to
know how much water they can contain??)

Why are water heaters 40G, 50G, 80G, etc. Why not 150liters?
(Ooops! Make that 100 liters cuz 150 is such an "odd" number!)

But, most folks don't care. They buy things in a "familiar
size" and think of that thing *in* that familiar size.

E.g., flour comes in 5 lb sacks; sugar (recently) in 4 lb.
OJ comes in (nominally) 56 oz containers.

Easier when everything is in the same measure, either litres or kg.

Why? If I tell someone I bought a "half gallon" of OJ, they
know exactly what I mean! They can visualize the size, shape
and weight of the container in their mind. The fact that it
*isn't* a "half gallon" isn't even important to them!

It's when you're comparing a large size with a small size it gets difficult.
For example how many pints of milk can you get from a 7 gallon drum?

I don't know anyone who buys milk in 7 gallon drums.
But, there are 8 pints in a gallon, so I'd guess 56.

How many thumbtacks in a kg of thumbtacks? How many sheets
of paper in a kg of paper? How many sheets would you need to cover
your back yard with paper??

They buy a "sack of flour". Probably know that it is 5 pounds.
But, that's beside the point. Esp as flour tends to be consumed in
quantities of *cups*!

There's the problem again, you buy a sack of flour. How many cups can you get
out of it?

We don't care. How many servings of french fries can you salt with
a kg of salt? How many hotdogs can you dress with a liter of mustard?

How many nails in a pound of 6d nails? Or, do you buy nails "per each"?
Ditto screws? Other hardware?

Do you think people know how many cups
of flour are in a 5 pound sack? Do you think they care?
"I need to buy flour" or "I've got enough flour for this recipe"
That;s all it takes. We don't weigh the remaining flour and check to
see if it's enough for the next Rx we intend to make.

You need to know how much of your recipe you can make with each sack.

I have *one* recipe that uses 5 pounds (plus 2C) of flour.
Every other recipe uses some handful of cups (typ 3).

I guess our brains are capable of more complex assessments than
expecting everything to "end in zero"...

Our numerical system is base 10, it makes sense to do calculations based on 10.

Yes. 3 * 7 = 21 radix 10.
What's so hard about that?

Do you buy your ketchup by the liter? (I suspect ketchup,
here, is sold in a dozen or more different "sizes")
What about your horseradish? And, are your spices sold
in 1g, 10g and 100g units? Never "3g" or "7g"?

All sorts of sizes, but we know what a gram is. The UNIT is always the same.

We also don't need to drag out a *scale* to bake things
as we KNOW that chemistries tend to require common rations
(e.g., 2:1, 4:1, etc.) and can use volumetric measures
(instead of laddling ingredients onto a scale).

We can do that if we like. But a scale is easier to get that 4:1 ratio correct
instead of guessing by how big the pile is.

How big is an "egg"? Do you have metric dozens of eggs?
Do you have 100 minutes in your hours? 100 days in your years?

It would be easier.

Metric chickens?

Obviously everything can't be made metric.

Do you even *know* that there is "no such thing" as a "large egg"?

WTF€½ Of course there is. There will be measurement for it to qualify as such.

No, there isn't. There is a large *dozen* but not a large *egg*.

How do you grade your fruit? Measure the circumference and
sort based on the nearest decimeter? Or, are "large oranges"
no more precious than "tiny oranges"??

You buy them by the kg.

And, you don't sort "large" (premium) from "small"?

"That must make school HELL!" -- having to remember TWO different
schemes of measurement, one that deals with radix 10 and others
that deal with 12's, 24's, 60's, 365's, etc.

At least we made some of it easier.

And, when you have a third person show up for dinner, do you scale the
recipe (that "feeds two") up by a factor of *10*?

I guess we have learned to use *all* the numbers, on this side of
the pond. Not just the "easy ones"!

We use the same numbers, but we don't have to remember how many of each thing
goes into each other thing.

Bye, troll!

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along...

On 3/13/2016 4:03 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:49:29 -0000, Don Y wrote:

On 3/13/2016 3:11 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:32:58 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/13/2016 12:22 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

Octothorpe.

And this one? €½

interobang.

I didn't think anyone had ever heard of that. I've certainly never seen it
used before.

Stop trolling.

It was just a question. Why do you consider it trolling?

Go play in the street (or, would you prefer "roadway"?)

Road for a route between towns. Street in a residential area. Don't you know
anything?

On 03/13/2016 03:45 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:

That's the official name, but I've never heard anyone actually use it in
everyday language.

0x23 ascii. Programmers get a little strange in their everyday language.