Weren't "words with multiple meanings" like "mile" exactly what crashed that Mars lander? so you probably want to avoid them - just to eliminate a potential source of confusion. No matter if you can handle them in your everyday kitchen, where the worst consequence could be 14ml to much milk when mixing up canadian with us cups.
Half-trolling.
But also pointing ouit that measuring with the "object cup" is perfectly useable in some situations. e.g. if a recipe would be given in a completly arbitrary and even unknown unit, you could replace the given unit with "cup". "liter" or "shotglass" or "any old container you happen to have at hand" and still reproduce the intended taste. If it used fractional values, you'd usually still get a good approximation. (everyone can see when a cylindrical container is roughly filled halfways)
And also non trolling would be my point that no one could argue that most definitly "my cup full of water is a cup full of water". At least if you don't want to go semantic hell.
Well, to avoid ambiguity, when referring to the exact measurement, you could use 237ml instead.
Well.. what would you expect from a country where inflammable means flammable!
Basically, no, the kitchen is exactly the place I want metric measurement - it is if anything the best example around a house of where you need accurate scientific style measurement.
Not always. It's the one place where you're fine with vague measurements. Like a pinch of salt, a handfull of lettuce or a chili. Take two of them if thats your style. When you're using natural ingredients, you'll always have size variations.
But I agree with you that measuring non-fluids by volume is moronic. And the above of course only applies when preparing foods in common household quantities. 1 pinch of salt per serving is perfect at home, but a bit complicated when you're preparing pasta sauce for the whole summer camp.
Where did you get a ridiculous idea like that? 1/2 cup is by definition exactly half of 1 cup. There can be no possible other definition.
I can see when my coffee cup is full and I could fill it with water to get 1 cup. But it has no markings to determine when it's half (or quater) full. So when using a cup for measurement, only full cups will measure precisely.
And it also scales better. If I have a recipe where everything is measured in cups, I might just use a smaller cup (tea cup instead of coffee cup) to prepare a smaller cake.
More comprehensible?
You can't even tell from the weather report if it's going to be freezing or not!
0: Freezing
20: Comfortable
30: Summer
100: Boiling
200: Baking.
All you need to know about degrees Celsius.
Oh and one more thing: Above 2500 degrees, you can usually just replace the units with Kelvin, as the difference is becoming neglectable.
I'm fine with 90 - 60 - 90, too.
Which definitly HAS that ring that your... what would you be calling it? does.
Which is a very poor metric as it leaves out price.
Swiss incomes are much higer than here, but that all gets eaten up when you have to pay swiss prices.
So the US is responsible for the fuck ups of every country we've ever had contact with for the rest of time?
Of course not! But the US has a pretty impressive track record...
Also, aren't there a number of cases where people didn't get treatment solely because they couldn't afford it?
Oh and how they care! But they care for controversity. A panel discussion with all participants agreeing would sink the ratings.
"Fair and balanced" is not a reminder that you have to hear multiple viewpoints, but an excuse to pit them up agains each other for maximum drama.
Another intresting fact: My (europa based) rewards card was sent by international mail from Seattle. But is not accepted in the united states.
Never have been asked for my name in any other coffeeshop than starbucks.
Why not go all the way and change it to 00000000? Was good enough for the US nukes....
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