WZCW Discussion Thread

[Blade]

Everyone who isn't American uses it.

Let Thriller be racist without correcting him.

On a less racist-based note, I didn't have internet for Sunday or Monday, so I've just watched Summerslam and Raw all in one go. My personal highlights:

Spoiler

- A group of people trying to start a TNA chant during the pre-show, only to get booed by everyone in their vicinity.

- Fans starting a Ring of Fire chant before they realised that the match wasn't very good.

- Being convinced that Alberto Del Rio kept wiping his nose because it was snotty, before Cole clarifying that he was bleeding.

- That slapping sequence. It was awesome, and I'm sure it gave the smarks a Japanese hard on.

- Sin Cara doing a wonderful Sin Cara impersonation.

- Fuck Randy Orton and Triple H.

 

[Remix]

Give me a good reason why there shouldn't be 1,760 yards in a mile.

It's a number that makes no sense. It's a number chosen pretty much at random during Elizabethan times when the length of yards and the number of yards per mile wasn't fixed. Now sure, one random number is better than having a lot of random numbers but compared to a logical system like the metric system? Yeah, it comes out worse.

There's a reason there's 100 pence in a pound (substitute appropriate denominations depending on region) and not 960 farthings.

Let Thriller be racist without correcting him.

On a less racist-based note, I didn't have internet for Sunday or Monday, so I've just watched Summerslam and Raw all in one go. My personal highlights:

Spoiler

- A group of people trying to start a TNA chant during the pre-show, only to get booed by everyone in their vicinity.

- Fans starting a Ring of Fire chant before they realised that the match wasn't very good.

- Being convinced that Alberto Del Rio kept wiping his nose because it was snotty, before Cole clarifying that he was bleeding.

- That slapping sequence. It was awesome, and I'm sure it gave the smarks a Japanese hard on.

- Sin Cara doing a wonderful Sin Cara impersonation.

- Fuck Randy Orton and Triple H.

This is more fun than doing my vocal.

 

[Thriller Ant]

Let Thriller be racist without correcting him.

It turns your mother on

It's a number that makes no sense. It's a number chosen pretty much at random during Elizabethan times when the length of yards and the number of yards per mile wasn't fixed. Now sure, one random number is better than having a lot of random numbers but compared to a logical system like the metric system? Yeah, it comes out worse.

There's a reason there's 100 pence in a pound (substitute appropriate denominations depending on region) and not 960 farthings.

You're just making up words now.

This is more fun than doing my vocal.

YUP. I should start saying random ignorant things I know are wrong every round!

 

[Remix]

You're just making up words now.

No, did did maths and those are real units of currency.

YUP. I should start saying random ignorant things I know are wrong every round!

That would be an improvement on your RPs

 

[Blade]

It turns your mother on

I didn't want to tell you this, but when you show up to my parents' house drunk and you think you're seducing my mother, you're actually trying to make love to the dishwasher.

That's why it's always so wet.

Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.

 

[Thriller Ant]

No, did did maths and those are real units of currency.



That would be an improvement on your RPs

If nothing else, it's longer than the RPs are.

I didn't want to tell you this, but when you show up to my parents' house drunk and you think you're seducing my mother, you're actually trying to make love to the dishwasher.

That's why it's always so wet.

Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.

...

 

[FlexAmerican Dynamite]

So is DC's last minute extension approved?

 

[Ty Burna]

...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States

 

[Thriller Ant]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States

I tried to find a gif of a Ouija board spelling "Go to hell" but apparently that doesn't exist. So, go to hell.

 

[Барбоса]

Until you can explain why there's 1760 yards in a mile you don't get a vote on which system of measurement is superior.

Give me a good reason why there shouldn't be 1,760 yards in a mile.

Its all to do with furlongs, chains, yards, feet, inches, oxen, Roman stadia and perhaps even the archaic cubit.

It really is a mess of a measurement, especially when new feet and new yards were brought into it. Had it not been for the fact that the statute mile is easily converted into kilometres, it is likely that it would not have lasted as long as it has.

 

[Барбоса]

Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.

God, I hope not with that material.

 

[Ty Burna]

I tried to find a gif of a Ouija board spelling "Go to hell" but apparently that doesn't exist. So, go to hell.

It's probably better than going to St. Louis.

 

[Remix]

Its all to do with furlongs, chains, yards, feet, inches, oxen, Roman stadia and perhaps even the archaic cubit.

It really is a mess of a measurement, especially when new feet and new yards were brought into it. Had it not been for the fact that the statute mile is easily converted into kilometres, it is likely that it would not have lasted as long as it has.

The fact that the Fahrenheit scale is still used despite it not being especially easy to convert between the it and Celsius/Kelvin says otherwise.

 

[Thriller Ant]

It's probably better than going to St. Louis.

It's actually not bad there right now. It'd usually be like 99 with 95% humidity, but it's only 88 with like 50% humidity.

 

[Thriller Ant]

The fact that the Fahrenheit scale is still used despite it not being especially easy to convert between the it and Celsius/Kelvin says otherwise.

Converting from Fahrenheit to anything else is the worst. At least with measurements, I have some idea of how much a kilogram or a meter is. You tell me it's 18 degrees Celsius, I have no fucking clue what you are saying.

 

[Remix]

Well, Kelvin is like Celsius but + 273.

 

[Барбоса]

The fact that the Fahrenheit scale is still used despite it not being especially easy to convert between the it and Celsius/Kelvin says otherwise.

True.

Maybe people like the whole "Which is colder? -40F or -40C" quiz question too much.

 

[Miko]

Dude, we've got apps for all that shit

 

[Remix]

True.

Maybe people like the whole "Which is colder? -40F or -40C" quiz question too much.

That's the point where they're equal, right?

So, do you have any favourite wacky units of measurement from history Barbie?

 

[Uncle Phatso]

I hope it does. If it doesn't, I'll go with the OTHER Hollowed song

Pantera wouldn't fit either.

 

[a0161613]

So is DC's last minute extension approved?

No idea. Probably not.

 

[FlexAmerican Dynamite]

No idea. Probably not.

I was thinking the same, be pretty unfair to get one last minute. Just wanted to know so I can take the extra time to re-evaluate.

 

[Барбоса]

That's the point where they're equal, right?

Correct.

So, do you have any favourite wacky units of measurement from history Barbie?

There are some pretty silly reasons given for some measurements regarding lengths of certain parts of the body. The Egyptian cubit is probably the most famous - from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. One suggestion for the origin of the yard was the distance from the nose to the tip of the thumb of Henry I of England. Others just tried to be practical about the whole thing and measured things in terms of how far an animal could plough or the like.

Some good 'measurements' in mythology though, like the Dido Problem, where Queen Dido asked for some land from a local chieftain in Africa to rest on. He replied haughtily that she could have all the land she could encompass with an oxhide. So she cut the hide into thin strips and encircled an entire hill with it. That hill would become the centre of her city of Carthage.

 

[Blade]

God, I hope not with that material.

I'm shocked you even feel it should be called material.

 

[Remix]

Correct.

Also just cold enough to make a thermometer worthless because mercury freezes at -38. Joey Mercury freezes at a much higher temperature though.