Casey LissYou 🇬🇧 folks can be mad about how we pronounce “hover”, but at least we don’t absolutely butcher “router”.
Seriously, how in the hell did you get “rooter” from “router”‽
Dr. Drang@caseyliss And yet you put periods and commas outside quotation marks. Next you’ll be putting an “s” on the end of “math.”
James Thomson@drdrang @caseyliss Casey was telling me only this week that he was broadly in favour of metric units.
@jamesthomson @caseyliss That’s the saddest thing I’ve ever heard.
@drdrang @caseyliss I think it means we're finally getting through to him.
@jamesthomson Imperial units are moronic. Except Fahrenheit which is unimpeachably the better unit for ambient air temps.
Michael Gemar@michaelgemar @jamesthomson Come talk to me when you don’t have to have half degrees on your thermostats
Also:
Martin McCallion@caseyliss @jamesthomson Who uses half degrees? A celsius degree difference isn’t that much. 21, 22, still nice. 3, 4, still bloody cold. In fact, outside a physic class, I’ve only ever heard fractional degrees used with Fahrenheit. ‘My temperature is ninety-eight point four,’ Lou Reed sings on ‘Average Guy’, just as an example.
(And my comma/quote placement there is deliberate and correct. 😀)