Why do all these weirdos think US law is like, the law everywhere. (I know the answer, American cultural domination of the Anglosphere)
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:02 (nine months ago) link
It's not just weirdos who think that everywhere is the US ime.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:04 (nine months ago) link
Starting to think my next door neighbor might be a sovcit — his pickup truck has no license plates at all, not even hand-drawn fake ones.
― read-only (unperson), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:29 (nine months ago) link
when these folks are locked up do they spend all day going "i'm not locked up, I'm free to leave whenever I want, I just don't want to right now"
― I can't turn a fart into a question (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:32 (nine months ago) link
"I meant to do that"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:32 (nine months ago) link
His driver's license just says McLovin
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:52 (nine months ago) link
I’m guessing that when these folks were kids, they were the ones who ruined games by saying “you’re it, times a million and no returns” and walked off congratulating themselves
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 28 August 2023 19:56 (nine months ago) link
joke's on this guy for failing to cite Maritime Law
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 August 2023 20:49 (nine months ago) link
irrelevant as far as the roads act goes tbftta
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 28 August 2023 21:44 (nine months ago) link
dry but thorough academic overview of the rise in para-constitutional activism: https://consoc.org.uk/the-rise-of-constitutional-conspiracism/
― mark s, Sunday, 10 December 2023 13:32 (five months ago) link
he spelt "Savile" wrong, i suspect a conspiracy
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 December 2023 15:54 (five months ago) link
A resident of Bedminster, South Bristol, has erected a large fence in front of their terraced home & announced knocking on their door or putting anything through their letterbox is a ‘minimum £25,000 fine or 1500 troy ounces of British silver coin’. pic.twitter.com/tm20Vye5x4— Tristan Cork Post (@TristanCorkPost) December 12, 2023
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 18:54 (five months ago) link
There is obviously some pathology involved here.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 18:57 (five months ago) link
"troy ounce" is an excellent new wrinkle
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:03 (five months ago) link
pretty extreme response to junk mail, i just recycle it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:17 (five months ago) link
Troy Ounce = Notting Hill drug dealer
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:18 (five months ago) link
alright martin amis
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:29 (five months ago) link
i think previous metals are always weighed in Troy ounces, but I'm not really sure about the difference (basing this on a trick question i heard once about what is heavier, an ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers?)
internet says it's about 10% more
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 20:09 (five months ago) link
chances are troy weight's equivalences were different for different metals in different regions, measurements pre-standardisation are wildly chaotic (even worse in pre-revolutionary france mind you)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit_(unit)
"Already in 1863, the hobbit was used as an example of the "customary confusion in our British weights and measures". An anonymous contributor to Charles Dickens's journal All the Year Round, arguing in favour of the decimal metric system, noted that[5]
"If (I buy wheat) at Wrexham, (I must order) by the hobbet of one hundred and sixty eight (pounds) (76 kg). But, even if I do happen to know what a hobbet of wheat means at Wrexham, that knowledge good for Flint is not good for Caernarvonshire. A hobbet of wheat at Pwlheli contains eighty-four pounds (38 kg) more than a hobbet at Wrexham; and a hobbet of oats is something altogether different; and a hobbet of barley is something altogether different again."
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 20:15 (five months ago) link
many of the 'pints' of beer I buy here in California are anything but
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 20:19 (five months ago) link
tbf no pints of beer in California or anywhere else in the US are actual pints
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:35 (five months ago) link
I hope that dipshit's house is egged constantly, pausing only for people knocking at his door and running away at random times.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:37 (five months ago) link
don't forget dogshit through the letterbox
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:41 (five months ago) link
Well. today i learned
The pint is a unit of volume or capacity in both the imperial and United States customary measurement systems. In both of those systems it is traditionally one eighth of a gallon. The British imperial pint is about 20% larger than the American pint because the two systems are defined differently.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:43 (five months ago) link
slightly less than 20% because US fluid ounces are bigger than UK fluid ounces
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:45 (five months ago) link
the british gallon is measured by the bladder capacity of the current monarch
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:45 (five months ago) link
hence to get royally bladdered
oh no wait, it's more than 20% because I'm bad at maths
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:46 (five months ago) link
UK fuiud ounces
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:49 (five months ago) link
lolololol
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:49 (five months ago) link
well if a US Gallon is 128 oz, and a quart is 32 oz, then a pint should be 16 oz
But there's a ton of U.S. 'pint' glasses that will easily be filled by a 12 oz bottle
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:50 (five months ago) link
xp tbf that is my position
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:51 (five months ago) link
it gets worse when a pint of whiskey is 375ml, gtfo with that shit, that's not much more than a half!
yeah, I like to buy Austrian gruner vetliner because they bottles are actual liters rather than 750mm
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:53 (five months ago) link
The sign is a master class in crank legal thinking.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:01 (five months ago) link
jimbeaux as of now I decree that replying in this thread requires that you deliver me 1 troy ounce of gold
I will accept payment by registered carrier pigeon
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:06 (five months ago) link
spent a torturous new years eve attempting to disprove a fellas sincerely held view that a pint glass of cider is 500ml plus 68ml worth of ice
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:06 (five months ago) link
now youd have said that was easily disproven but id spent all day proving it and was getting worse at carrying out the practical demos as the year waned
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:07 (five months ago) link
sometimes in the US now they give you 16 oz & 20 oz options which I think takes this discrepancy into account?
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:08 (five months ago) link
and darragh I expect those two ounces by next Tuesday tyvm
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:09 (five months ago) link
xp I generally choose my battles, but I would derive great joy from hovering a small drone around this kook's yard
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:11 (five months ago) link
haha "I don't see anything about drones in the fine print"
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:11 (five months ago) link
you cauld call it the magna darta
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:13 (five months ago) link
*ahem*
"Vehicles manned or remotely operated"
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to get one past the Attorney in Fact.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:27 (five months ago) link
wherein I reply that, in fact, my drone is not a 'vehicle' but a protected tool of self-expression (akin to a laser pointer), and therefore falls outside of this localized statute
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:31 (five months ago) link
he may own the land, but not the airspace a few feet above the garden
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:32 (five months ago) link
According to precedent, the property is his from the center of the earth to the upper limits of the atmosphere. All rights reserved.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 00:33 (five months ago) link
If I remember correctly, there are actually some seminal court cases about planes trespassing over a property owner’s airspace (upshot: planes can fly over your suburban two-up two-down).
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 01:52 (five months ago) link
Sure, as long as they pay a fine of 100 ounces of iridium, avoirdupois.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 01:55 (five months ago) link
Thought this revive was around the anniversary of what happened in my home state a year ago:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-10/wieambilla-police-shootings-one-year-mccrow-arnold-dare-train/103086748
A school principle, and his brother who was now married to his divorced wife (also a public school employee) executing two police and a neighbour, injuring two other police, for stepping onto their property. The police were following up a missing persons report on the principle.
I went down the rabbithole of this when it happened, finding their online posting and seeing conspiracy sites scrub their forum and news posts in real time the same day the events happened. Depressing. A man was just arrested in Arizona for inciting the shooting, close contact, celebrating them right after their deaths for taking down the demons of the new world order
― H.P, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 02:34 (five months ago) link