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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month 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] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That way you enjoy your poutine as you enjoy poutine.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like poutine...

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

Followed by X-Files of course.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

They're only mammals after all.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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

We use American football fields here in the USA.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Dental plan

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

…the Mexican cartel is always watching India

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] emergencyfood 3 points 1 month 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] 17 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Kecessa 40 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Neutral Zone Kush hits hard.

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

Personally I'm all about that Exclusion Zone kush

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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] 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

Phrases containing a proper noun should not be hyphenated.

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

Joke's on you, there is no noun

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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

You win this round

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

Did you just denoune America?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can't even enjoy a sport anymore😮‍💨

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Could you ever?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month 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).

[–] captain_aggravated 8 points 1 month 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] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Or just say 14 by 14 meters?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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