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post 1659899793 04-19-2022, 08:10 AM
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lol @ americans calling petrol "gas"

"Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, liquid, and plasma)"

brb using the term "gas" for something thats actually liquid
brb logic
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post 1659899993 04-19-2022, 08:16 AM
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Who got some snaps on the Petrol
post 1659900093 04-19-2022, 08:19 AM
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post 1659900283 04-19-2022, 08:21 AM
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UK should go back to using the imperial system since Brexit and all. I'll admit the imperial/english system is weird asfk, but we're so damn used to it--the cost to change would be large and time to do so..probably a decade at least. (of fkn ish up)
post 1659900343 04-19-2022, 08:22 AM
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ITT OP proves he doesn't even have the mental capacity to understand gas is short for Gasoline.

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/ˌɡasəˈlēn,ˈɡasəlēn/
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refined petroleum used as fuel for internal combustion engines

Fukkin Brits. When will they learn?
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post 1659900403 04-19-2022, 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe
ITT OP proves he doesn't even have the mental capacity to understand gas is short for Gasoline.

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/ˌɡasəˈlēn,ˈɡasəlēn/
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refined petroleum used as fuel for internal combustion engines

Fukkin Brits. When will they learn?
post 1659900433 04-19-2022, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe
ITT OP proves he doesn't even have the mental capacity to understand gas is short for Gasoline.

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gas·o·line
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refined petroleum used as fuel for internal combustion engines

Fukkin Brits. When will they learn?
Also, this. Gas--short for gasoline makes way more sense than petro--short for petroleum.

Explain yourself OP
post 1659900553 04-19-2022, 08:26 AM
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What do you guys call gas as in gas that powers your boilers? I assume you have boilers...
post 1659900603 04-19-2022, 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe
ITT OP proves he doesn't even have the mental capacity to understand gas is short for Gasoline.

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gas·o·line
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refined petroleum used as fuel for internal combustion engines

Fukkin Brits. When will they learn?
Not to mention it was a BRITISH inventor named John Cassel who patented a new lighting fuel and named it cazeline, which was the origin of the word. Brits btfo
post 1659900623 04-19-2022, 08:27 AM
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Dat dere British inferiority complex.

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post 1659900733 04-19-2022, 08:29 AM
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Imagine spelling tires "tyres".
post 1659900933 04-19-2022, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted By saltypits
Imagine spelling tires "tyres".
Almost as bad as Canadians spelling checks “cheques.”

But I’ll give beavercels a pass because at least they don’t drive on the wrong side of the road.
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post 1659901513 04-19-2022, 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe
ITT OP proves he doesn't even have the mental capacity to understand gas is short for Gasoline.

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Fukkin Brits. When will they learn?
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post 1659901623 04-19-2022, 08:46 AM
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Fuking brits, when will they learn how to speak English
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post 1659902813 04-19-2022, 09:06 AM
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It's short for gasoline, not the physical state for one.

We don't need a "smooth" system because we don't have smooth brains (well most of us, we do have liberals)

It's really quite simple if your IQ is above room temperature.

Also, you forgot one place that uses Imperial:

post 1659903803 04-19-2022, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted By Jasonw1178
It's short for gasoline, not the physical state for one.

We don't need a "smooth" system because we don't have smooth brains (well most of us, we do have liberals)

It's really quite simple if your IQ is above room temperature.

Also, you forgot one place that uses Imperial:

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post 1659904143 04-19-2022, 09:31 AM
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Yeah but the liquid gasoline doesn't burn, it's the gaseous vapors that burn
post 1659904203 04-19-2022, 09:33 AM
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Crazy WORD ORIGIN!

It's Gazoline because that was the NAME BRAND of a company that sold fuel.

Lots of people in the US call "facial tissues" Kleenex because that was most popular brand so now many people say, hand me a Kleenex no matter what brand it is.

Gazoline was the name of a BRAND!

Weirdly, in the Mad Max movies they say "Gazoline" or "Gaz" and I always thought that was just some weird quirk.
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post 1659904293 04-19-2022, 09:34 AM
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It was strategic on the Brit’s part
There’s nothing for jacked up teeth to slur in the word petrol

But gas, could come across as gathh, confusing the low iq Brit
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post 1659904743 04-19-2022, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted By Destor
Yeah but the liquid gasoline doesn't burn, it's the gaseous vapors that burn
This. So not only is it short for gasoline, but it's actually in a gas state when used for it's intended purpose. Jesus Brits taking L's left and right.
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post 1659904923 04-19-2022, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted By Jasonw1178
Also, you forgot one place that uses Imperial:

NASA did use English units in Apollo, probably because the aerospace industry and pilots were much better accustomed to them....it appears they actually used a mix (which to me, would be most confusing). However NASA has since moved toward SI since that's the standard for science, such as in any current or future missions to Mars (where they dont have to deal with 50s-60s era trained military pilots and engineers who were much more familiar with imperial units).

Also half the misc seems to think the moon is made of cheese or we never went to the moon (smdh), so maybe not the best example to use on here.

Originally Posted By MisterJustice
I mean if you're going to use Celsius, at least use the absolute Kelvin scale. Celsius is arbitrary just the same, and is roughly associated with the behavior of water (one of zillions of molecules) at a certain pressure no less, and even water itself is ambiguous as its heterogeneous in nature comprised of varying ration of isotopes. 0 and 100 degrees Celsius doesnt even exactly currently correspond to the melting point of ice and boiling point of water at standard conditions, respectively, it's slightly different based on definition.

Also since a degree F is a smaller change than a degree C, there is a slightly less need to use a decimal with Fahrenheit temperatures compared to Celsius (although you do see Fahrenheit sometimes as a decimal like body temp 98.6 degrees F, its pretty rare in practice).
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Originally Posted By Destor
Yeah but the liquid gasoline doesn't burn, it's the gaseous vapors that burn
Originally Posted By numberguy12
NASA did use English units in Apollo, probably because the aerospace industry and pilots were much better accustomed to them....it appears they actually used a mix (which to me, would be most confusing). However NASA has since moved toward SI since that's the standard for science, such as in any current or future missions to Mars (where they dont have to deal with 50s-60s era trained military pilots and engineers who were much more familiar with imperial units).

Also half the misc seems to think the moon is made of cheese or we never went to the moon (smdh), so maybe not the best example to use on here.





I mean if you're going to use Celsius, at least use the absolute Kelvin scale. Celsius is arbitrary just the same, and is roughly associated with the behavior of water (one of zillions of molecules) at a certain pressure no less, and even water itself is ambiguous as its heterogeneous in nature comprised of varying ration of isotopes. 0 and 100 degrees Celsius doesnt even currently correspond to the melting point of ice and boiling point of water at standard conditions, respectively, it's slightly different based on definition.

Also since a degree F is a smaller change than a degree C, there is a slightly less need to use a decimal with Fahrenheit temperatures compared to Celsius (although you do see Fahrenheit sometimes as a decimal like body temp 98.6 degrees F, its pretty rare in practice).
Agreed. There should be no negative degrees in any measurement. 0 should be 0, meaning temperature of 0 being absolute 0 meaning no movement of atoms what so ever. Same thing with measuring vacuum. There is no such thing as vacuum, it's the lack of pressure. Vacuum is a low pressure area.
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Lol at petrolcels
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From my understanding, the real reason the metric system never took off in the US.
Too many hillbillies didn't know how to convert a "Chitload".....to metric...
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Wonder how many stones op weighs.


Fukkin lol
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Gas doesn't work without the fumes, phaggot.
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