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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

What a terrible measurement. They have to put in the title and margins the size of the rink just so people can understand it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I can't dunk too hard on a country with federally legal weed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or just say 14 by 14 meters?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The regulation appears to be based on the area of the plot, not the dimensions. By assigning explicitly annotated dimensions it can confuse the intended message more than using a goofy but useful analogy.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

standard North-American sized

Can we please standardize handling of dashes in multi-word adverb-adjective phrases?

Option 1: North American-sized (most common)
Option 2: North-American sized (as seen in the article)
Option 3: North-American-sized (makes most sense to me)
Option 4: North American sized (Edit: added based on @[email protected]'s comment)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

There is a standard, compound modifiers preceding the noun. There are also exceptions, proper nouns and their transformations don’t get hyphenated.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Phrases containing a proper noun should not be hyphenated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Joke's on you, there is no noun

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The phrase does not contain the word "America". Look again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

You win this round

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did you just denoune America?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I see what you did there.

"America" is indeed a proper noun. However, the phrase does not match the Regex expression \b(America)\b, where \b means a word boundary.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

None of them need dashes. I guess two is my favorite if I have to have a dash.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Makes sense. I'll never know how big 'a football field' is as I've never seen one. I assume it's just under half a hectare (which is 1 hectometer on a side).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Including end zones, an American football field is precisely 360 feet long and 160 feet wide, or approximately 110m x 50m. The area is 1.32 acres.

It's precisely defined so I'm okay with it being used as an area of length or area, especially since virtually all Americans have personal experience with football fields, having at the very least been required to run four laps of the quarter-mile track you usually find wrapped around one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I know they're at least 100 yards long. And a yard is about the same as a meter.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

On behalf of all Nordic countries, I approve of this.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because saying "A square 14m x 14m" is too confusing somehow... I hate when they do it for huge surfaces though, like for forest fires as people don't comprehend big numbers like "100 000 football fields", but they sure can understand that 100km is a long distance so a 100km x 100km square is fucking huge.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Did you see that astroid that was hundreds of lions wide?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

No, but I did see the one that was a million antlions across.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

It weighed the same as the amount of jello ppwder required to make five Olympic swimming pools full of jello.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Neutral Zone Kush hits hard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Personally I'm all about that Exclusion Zone kush

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If thats a STALKER refrence Im playing through those now to get ready for the new one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Hell yeah. In Anomaly after I've been some brain destroying psi fields and having mutants fuck with my mind I like to wind down with some premium quality Exclusion Zone kush.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did someone say turnover? 'Cause I've got the munchies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They should start calling Canadian pre rolls 'one timers'

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can't even enjoy a sport anymore😮‍💨

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Could you ever?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Football pitches are often for size comparisons here in the UK.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Same in Germany, and, for much larger areas, Saarlands are used as a comparison

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We use American football fields here in the USA.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

If I remember correctly, cricket fields don't have a fixed size. Also football is popular enough that people will understand what 'x football fields' is. But mostly we use square kilometres, hectares and so on.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Dental plan

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

…the Mexican cartel is always watching India

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

Right next to China, Pakistan and Bangladesh. If you head West from North Korea, just take a left after Mongolia!

[–] [email protected] 121 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Canadian couples only have sex doggy-style, so they can both watch the hockey game.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As an added bonus, I can also use my wife's lower back to rest my poutine. She says it provides a nice warming sensation.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That way you enjoy your poutine as you enjoy poutine.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like poutine...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Followed by X-Files of course.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

They're only mammals after all.