As a Minnesotan, I've been told I'm an honorary Canadian. Granted, the honor was bestowed by 20-somethings drinking brewskies on a pebble beach in New Brunswick, while helping us haul our kayaks out of the water, but that just makes it more legit, right?
[Laughs in person who lives atop a windy hill] We could do this here....and then take bets on how many minutes before the wind blows it over. This is fine for storing it away somewhere but you should never do this on a job site.
Has a lot to do with age, actually. While we switched from Imperial to Metric in the ‘70s, it wasn’t really pushed in schools until the late ‘80s. You’ll see the weirdness most in Gen X: we use a really weird mishmash of Imperial/Metric or use it interchangeably, and we’d be lost without a conversion app on our phone. Boomers aren’t much better.
Weird, I had no idea it was still being used. I have teenage great-nephews and talking height, weight, distance — I have to translate it before I can comprehend it. Granted, I’m from the generation that considered measuring fabric from my nose to my outstretched arm was considered a yard and called it a day. 😆
this is like watching letterkenny but construction version. and snow mexicans. Wow i have never heard this one before. i dont even think racists are that good to come up with that.
It greatly depends on the region which the Finn is from. Savo, you're good to go, their love language is talking shit. Häme? You're gonna get stabbed, watch your mouth, in fact it's best to say nothing at all.
So are all 5 thinking Fin- & Iceland are cool? Are Fins and Ices self-diagnosing as cool? Are all 5 calling out Denmark, Norway and Sweden? That makes no sense (add to that that US + Canada makes 90% of a continent you'd expect the rest of Europe to also be referencing the Nordic)
1. Yes all Nordics agree that all the Nordics are the coolest, only Swe, Den and Nor bully each other while Ice and Fin bully them too but doesn’t get bullied themselves. 2. That's not how Europe works. A Swede and a Greek got as much in common as a Canadian and an Agentinian.
I've heard people from pretty much every part of western europe call them that, Dutch are Swamp Germans, the Swiss are Mountain Germans, and the Austrians are Fake Germans.
It remains bizarre to me that Americans think they use "imperial" units when this is very much not the case. They use US Customary Units. For example, an imperial gallon is 4.54 litres (10 pounds of water), whereas a US gallon is 3.78 litres (231 cubic inches).
this is definitely an "I don't think about you at all" sort of moment. Americans don't put an adjective in front of their units at all. They don't think of "imperial" gallons or "US customary" gallons, they think of gallons, and since imperial units are basically dead, it's pretty straightforward to figure out what is meant by this. In fact, your entire complaint proves that there isn't a need to distinguish.
It came from the wine gallon. 231 cubic inches is the volume of 8 troy pounds of wine, generally in the form of a cylinder 7 inches in diameter and 6 inches tall. It was the standard that England used before they came up with the imperial system.
I mean, all units of measurement are based on some arbitrary specification somewhere down the line, and the metric system is no different in that regard. A liter is defined as the volume of a cube with 10 centimeter side lengths, where a meter is defined (in layman terms) to be the distance light travels in one 299,792,458th of a second. That definition is merely more scientifically/mathematically stringent than a gallon; it is no less arbitrary.
I'm very well aware that they are completely arbitrary. My concern is the connection between the units. It's like a bunch of veteran woodworkers tried to establish conversion systems based on how many fingers were left
1 pint of water is 1 pound at the boiling point of water at sea level. There are 2 pints in a quart. There are 2 quarts in a half-gallon. There are 2 half-gallons in a gallon. So in base 2 a gallon is 1000 times the size of a pint.
Americans are narcissistic enough that we tend to call it "standard" rather than imperial. It's mostly folks outside America who mistake our measurements as imperial.
Things may have changed in the last few decades but, as a draftsman, I often said imperial vs metric. "Standard" would have unnecessarily confused the German/American engineers I dealt with. Orthographic drawing projections was a tough enough hurdle without confusing units as well.
Perhaps ignorant, but not sure if you are being funny utilizing a weight measurement and inches for comparison. I do know a gallon is a gallon in US and if I travel to Canada it's 4.54 litres. Now about pronouncing litres vs liters...
One UK Imperial gallon = 4.54609 litres. One US gallon = 3.78541 litres. Googling "Canadian gallon" is confusing - some give the UK figure whilst some just say "almost 4.5 liters"
Gallon is a volume measurement. Volumes are cubic distance measurements. A mL is a cubic centimeter, for instance. So, cubic inches is also a volume measurement, albeit adding the extra conversion there makes it not immediately obvious how much they differ.
Yes. One of them is standardized one way, and the other is standardized the other way. No, the pronunciation isn't different, that's just a spelling convention. No, you do not "know" that a US gallon is 4.54 litres because that's an imperial gallon.
The imperial gallon is defined as the volume of 10 pounds of distilled water at 62F (yes, F) and is equal to 4.54 liters. The US Customary gallon is based on the wine gallon, which is defined as 231 cubic inches (or the volume of 8 troy pounds of wine) and is equal to 3.79 liters. So no, what the US calls a gallon and what Canada calls a gallon are not the same thing.
There's all sorts of stuff that's still in increments of ounces or gallons, just due to trade or old-school inertia. Like how Canada still sells liquor in a 40 oz bottle, or energy drinks in 16oz cans. Or butter in 16oz bricks. Or various auto fluids in 1 gal jugs. Once you start watching for certain increments (3.78L, 945ml, 454g, etc) there are a lot of them out there.
It won't be changed again until it is. The definition of a meter seemed pretty foolproof being defined with respect to the speed of light, and then in 2019 they changed the definition of a second which affected the official length of one meter (even if the difference is negligible in most applications). The whole point of these changes is that the scientific community is not, in fact, satisfied with "A is equal to B under C conditions" definitions because that system is inherently imprecise.
The point is they've finally settled on base standards and they shouldn't need to move ever again. They weren't all based on measurable mathematical constants before, but now they *all* are, so they don't need to shift. Le Grand K is a fascinating object, but a horrible way to define a unit of measure.
There's no ladder wobbling ominously... That's how ladders work. The feet are angled so they touch the ground as far from the wall as possible and all the weight is leaning against the wall.
Huh, that's unexpected. When he leaned the ladder against the door I was ready to bet money that the punchline would be someon opening the door and dropping the ladder on him.
The step ladder on the inside of the house. Typically less dirtied and smaller than the one in the garage. It is used for high cupboards and dusting as well as changing light bulbs and hanging paintings.
It's usually by the washing machine. The washroom is often the inside appliance room. The janitor's closet if you will. Also. "No step ladder, what are you doing!?"
azarza
'pantload is imperial then' lmfao
BasinStreetDesign
I think the official conversion is 12 whacks = 1 shitload.
PostmasterG
Funny, but both of those guys are canadian af.
2befair
DespiseEveryone
Meanwhile the Europeans are going: Tsk, colonial trash.
Couldicareless
RossReedstrom
As a Minnesotan, I've been told I'm an honorary Canadian. Granted, the honor was bestowed by 20-somethings drinking brewskies on a pebble beach in New Brunswick, while helping us haul our kayaks out of the water, but that just makes it more legit, right?
trinxter
American accent might need a tiny bit of work.
TheGriffin
Yeah this is accurate for construction projects
Wowcablesucks
First time I heard Canadians referred as Snow Mexicans, LOL
RyanH42
Which episode of Letterkenny is this?
PineappleLoopsBroether
MrHappySmiles
How the fook is Australia supposed to know wtf of going on st any time, you insensitive muthafuckas.
Madbull34
I think he just asking for a heap of reo mate
DeepVeinZombosis
"Mom, can we buy some Letterkenny?"
"No, put that back, we have Letterkenny at home!"
mikeatike
Metric: An adjective Americans use to make a term sound more profane. Compare, "a fuck ton" vs "a metric fuck ton."
CheeseborgarSoop
Snow Mexicans is now my favorite slur for Canadians.
rowanww822000
Shit-ton is US and shit-tonne is everywhere else, pretty easy guys come on XD
NATA5
As a Mexican I laughed so hard at snow Mexicans.
Yodajackson
So every conversation involving two or more Canadians sounds like an episode of Letter Kenny, Got it.
CitrusyGarlic
[Laughs in person who lives atop a windy hill] We could do this here....and then take bets on how many minutes before the wind blows it over. This is fine for storing it away somewhere but you should never do this on a job site.
FleeseekstheMeeseeks
BronyDanza
PineappleLoopsBroether
mykidsdontsleep
Snow Mexicans is definitely my new fave insult!
OppaGangnamPyle
Why is it insulting?
Geo80
"How Americans sound"? Yeah, nothing like that.
Eilonwyy
To be fair...I've been on Canadian job sites that used both units interchangeably. Guess it depends how close they are to the border.
mcglirkymeow
Has a lot to do with age, actually. While we switched from Imperial to Metric in the ‘70s, it wasn’t really pushed in schools until the late ‘80s. You’ll see the weirdness most in Gen X: we use a really weird mishmash of Imperial/Metric or use it interchangeably, and we’d be lost without a conversion app on our phone. Boomers aren’t much better.
Init1alDee
Sewing and Woodworking still use imperial regardless. Took both in HS a few years ago and it was all we used
mcglirkymeow
Weird, I had no idea it was still being used. I have teenage great-nephews and talking height, weight, distance — I have to translate it before I can comprehend it. Granted, I’m from the generation that considered measuring fabric from my nose to my outstretched arm was considered a yard and called it a day. 😆
locomotive
ChanceVLuck
I guess I've been spelling Canadien wrong all this time. AWW who am I kidding, nobody cares how you spell it!
JustaguyfromNH
[softly in the distance] *sorry*
ahorseelbowdeepinme
Koneatyon
ryecurry9000
That's french
SpaceballsTheComment
No, that's quebeceu... quebecue... quebecie... yeah that's french.
OdeToBouncer
Call it "mapel syrup" and see what happens.
AutismVaccine
Literally spelled Canadian on the guy's shirt and you still fucked it up in the title
GravityVT
You fell for the rage bait trap. I still love you though. Have a nice day!
AutismVaccine
Damnit, every time
ageek3000
It's still technically correct, it's the French spelling.
AutismVaccine
So that's what Americans sound like to French Canadians?
KidShenck
Montreal Canadiens
4vie
Canadians with a Fleur De Lis instead of a maple leaf in the middle :P
OriginalSyn
Even trying to use an American accent that guy sound more Ontarian than any I've known.
IAmAMammal
Yes, because Americans are so good at Canadian accents.
parabolic000
yeah, all thems sounded Canadian af. It's actually a nice sort of accent, if I'm being honest.
TacoPoweredHelicopter
That's a rural Ontario accent, not a Canadian accent.
iDrawStuff
Yeah, that was throwing it for me. Otherwise, pretty accurate.
ArcanisTheOmnipotent
It sounded very midwestern to me. Like Minnesota aread
catmonger
I was just coming to the comments to say this lol
ishallbeknownastheplacebo
Have people stopped knowing how to read? why the fuck is every video with text on it, read out?
NotLuckyDucky
Huh
FatBastardVegetarian
You mean 'closed captioning'?
MoopsyLD
this is like watching letterkenny but construction version. and snow mexicans. Wow i have never heard this one before. i dont even think racists are that good to come up with that.
LeroyJS
I first heard that from Dave Attell when talking about Eskimos.
MapleSyrupMafia
That was my game nickname for a while.
isetprettygirlsonfire
That's a classic term
BronyDanza
Maple syrup backs
Scuzzlebutt142
Some pretty solid chirping there.
SharkoutofWata
I always went with “Glacier Jumping Mapleback”. I don’t remember for the life of me where I heard it
Gerthquake
Fuckin love that show. This is great.
BaklavaWearingBalaclavaWhilePlayingBalalaikaOnBlackLava
Snow Mexicans is one I've heard a lot, snow N words has also come up more than a couple times, unfortunately.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
I've lived my entire life on the border and today's the first I've heard either.
Zetor
You can insult your friends. It's like us in the Nordic, everybody calls out Denmark, Norway and Sweden. But Finland and Iceland are cool.
BythepowerofPlank
it's mostly because Fins aint Swedes. and didn't claim ownership of Norway, unlike Svenskefaen and Danskepølsa.
NotaCPA
Finland and Iceland are the most likely to lose their shit and kill you all. That's why you're cool with them.
Eldis
It greatly depends on the region which the Finn is from. Savo, you're good to go, their love language is talking shit. Häme? You're gonna get stabbed, watch your mouth, in fact it's best to say nothing at all.
TinyLiehon
Who is everyone? The 50 other shades of European?
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
Everyone in the Nordics, he listed all the countries. If you want to talk about Europe as a whole we mustly gang up and shit on France.
TinyLiehon
So are all 5 thinking Fin- & Iceland are cool? Are Fins and Ices self-diagnosing as cool? Are all 5 calling out Denmark, Norway and Sweden? That makes no sense (add to that that US + Canada makes 90% of a continent you'd expect the rest of Europe to also be referencing the Nordic)
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
1. Yes all Nordics agree that all the Nordics are the coolest, only Swe, Den and Nor bully each other while Ice and Fin bully them too but doesn’t get bullied themselves. 2. That's not how Europe works. A Swede and a Greek got as much in common as a Canadian and an Agentinian.
OdeToBouncer
Well Finland is kinda stabby, sooo.....
MyDragonHeartedSpirit
kvinnfolk
I call out Finland and Iceland.
Zetor
Hold kjeft, din olje-ape!
kvinnfolk
Wow dude.
4vie
I get the feeling you're Norwegian, but your username suggests Swede.
kvinnfolk
Norwegian; my username is a common word in Norway and as far as I know, not used in Swedish.
4vie
We DO use it, but it's not used very often. I
unpunnyfuns
Danes calling us Norwegians "mountain apes" is my favourite.
Zeboku
I'm a Dane, and I've never heard the term before
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
Vi kallar dem Bergtroll
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
I didn't know they called you West-Swedes that, now I have to high fave a Dane... and then wash my hands.
kikichunt
Isn't it Norwegians who refer to the Dutch as "swamp krauts"?
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
I've heard people from pretty much every part of western europe call them that, Dutch are Swamp Germans, the Swiss are Mountain Germans, and the Austrians are Fake Germans.
JayEnfield
It remains bizarre to me that Americans think they use "imperial" units when this is very much not the case. They use US Customary Units. For example, an imperial gallon is 4.54 litres (10 pounds of water), whereas a US gallon is 3.78 litres (231 cubic inches).
rbudrick
Isnt this just true for volume?
SonnyVabitch
My shock is the size of a small boulder.
morelikeconsham
this is definitely an "I don't think about you at all" sort of moment. Americans don't put an adjective in front of their units at all. They don't think of "imperial" gallons or "US customary" gallons, they think of gallons, and since imperial units are basically dead, it's pretty straightforward to figure out what is meant by this. In fact, your entire complaint proves that there isn't a need to distinguish.
MAN9000
What about miles, inches, pounds and bananas?
Cactus21
And washing machines?
ItaloCanadianYUL
Oh, thats good
PutinGivingYouANeckMassage
Why 231? Why?
abion47
It came from the wine gallon. 231 cubic inches is the volume of 8 troy pounds of wine, generally in the form of a cylinder 7 inches in diameter and 6 inches tall. It was the standard that England used before they came up with the imperial system.
PutinGivingYouANeckMassage
This gets worse and worse...
abion47
I mean, all units of measurement are based on some arbitrary specification somewhere down the line, and the metric system is no different in that regard. A liter is defined as the volume of a cube with 10 centimeter side lengths, where a meter is defined (in layman terms) to be the distance light travels in one 299,792,458th of a second. That definition is merely more scientifically/mathematically stringent than a gallon; it is no less arbitrary.
PutinGivingYouANeckMassage
I'm very well aware that they are completely arbitrary. My concern is the connection between the units. It's like a bunch of veteran woodworkers tried to establish conversion systems based on how many fingers were left
inevermadeone
1 pint of water is 1 pound at the boiling point of water at sea level. There are 2 pints in a quart. There are 2 quarts in a half-gallon. There are 2 half-gallons in a gallon.
So in base 2 a gallon is 1000 times the size of a pint.
mebe21
Americans are narcissistic enough that we tend to call it "standard" rather than imperial. It's mostly folks outside America who mistake our measurements as imperial.
Zilthai
Things may have changed in the last few decades but, as a draftsman, I often said imperial vs metric. "Standard" would have unnecessarily confused the German/American engineers I dealt with. Orthographic drawing projections was a tough enough hurdle without confusing units as well.
JayEnfield
I can assure you, it is not. Americans refer to their units as "imperial" aaaaaaaall the time
darkhalfbreed
Or, it's standard in the country and it doesn't have to be a global standard.
ChicanoBatman
Perhaps ignorant, but not sure if you are being funny utilizing a weight measurement and inches for comparison. I do know a gallon is a gallon in US and if I travel to Canada it's 4.54 litres. Now about pronouncing litres vs liters...
neptix
except that a US gallon is 3.78 litres :)
AbelardSnazz
One UK Imperial gallon = 4.54609 litres. One US gallon = 3.78541 litres. Googling "Canadian gallon" is confusing - some give the UK figure whilst some just say "almost 4.5 liters"
mebe21
Gallon is a volume measurement. Volumes are cubic distance measurements. A mL is a cubic centimeter, for instance. So, cubic inches is also a volume measurement, albeit adding the extra conversion there makes it not immediately obvious how much they differ.
JayEnfield
Yes. One of them is standardized one way, and the other is standardized the other way. No, the pronunciation isn't different, that's just a spelling convention. No, you do not "know" that a US gallon is 4.54 litres because that's an imperial gallon.
abion47
The imperial gallon is defined as the volume of 10 pounds of distilled water at 62F (yes, F) and is equal to 4.54 liters. The US Customary gallon is based on the wine gallon, which is defined as 231 cubic inches (or the volume of 8 troy pounds of wine) and is equal to 3.79 liters. So no, what the US calls a gallon and what Canada calls a gallon are not the same thing.
ChicanoBatman
Well I definitely relate to wine measurements. When asked how much I have had to drink, the answer is "never enough."
JayEnfield
I'm Canadian, and we ~usually~ use US gallons... Except for hot water heaters, for some reason. Those are rated in imperial gallons.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Don't we usually use litres? I don't think I've ever measured anything in any kind of gallon.
JayEnfield
There's all sorts of stuff that's still in increments of ounces or gallons, just due to trade or old-school inertia. Like how Canada still sells liquor in a 40 oz bottle, or energy drinks in 16oz cans. Or butter in 16oz bricks. Or various auto fluids in 1 gal jugs. Once you start watching for certain increments (3.78L, 945ml, 454g, etc) there are a lot of them out there.
C0baltBlue
1 kg is equal to* 1 litre of water at 4°C. It's a fairly good way of defining a measurement.
*practically equal to. The exact definitions get a bit complex, but it means they won't be changed again.
abion47
It won't be changed again until it is. The definition of a meter seemed pretty foolproof being defined with respect to the speed of light, and then in 2019 they changed the definition of a second which affected the official length of one meter (even if the difference is negligible in most applications). The whole point of these changes is that the scientific community is not, in fact, satisfied with "A is equal to B under C conditions" definitions because that system is inherently imprecise.
C0baltBlue
The point is they've finally settled on base standards and they shouldn't need to move ever again. They weren't all based on measurable mathematical constants before, but now they *all* are, so they don't need to shift. Le Grand K is a fascinating object, but a horrible way to define a unit of measure.
RummageSaleBubbler
Canadians...
Deluxotron
"Did you know ladders are made to do this and not fall?" Ladder wobbles ominously, man looks back at ladder, video immediately cuts
myeyesthegogglesdonothing
There's no ladder wobbling ominously... That's how ladders work. The feet are angled so they touch the ground as far from the wall as possible and all the weight is leaning against the wall.
LordOfThePurpleBunnies
WHAT... No way!
petresun
"No way... Fucks sake."
JustaguyfromNH
we have whole hearted-ly stolen that phrase in New England
Maaatth
Tabarnak!
brazzy42
Huh, that's unexpected. When he leaned the ladder against the door I was ready to bet money that the punchline would be someon opening the door and dropping the ladder on him.
Armouredfalcon
as someone who works with ladders daily, yes you can do that, but its still much safer to lean them.
ThatCanadianViking
Even after seeing this im gunna have to test thus for myself.
RummageSaleBubbler
Please post.
zFUBARz
It'll work, but it's not exactly reliably compared to having even a few degrees of angle to it.
QuanticChaos
LMAO, that's a friend of mine! I only recently found out he's kinda internet famous!
Elnauriel
He's got a very Ryan Reynoldsy kind of vibe. I like it! =)
ThatCanadianViking
Literally just found him on youtube yesterday lmao
changedforanonymity
WHAT?! no way!
Lun4ticH1gh
FUCK SAKES, yer tellin' me yer friend's a minor internet celebrity and you had NO idea?
QuanticChaos
Yeah! I'm not into TikTok, I only found out when he posted a video to his facebook. I know him because we're both car guys in Alberta! LOL
heathenhumanist
Wtf is a "washing machine ladder"??
PhilKenSebban
If you dont know, ya cant afford it
RummageSaleBubbler
It's the thing in the video.
1245restatemyassumptions
mikeatike
What? No way. Fuck!
Maaatth
The ladder everyone keeps by the washing machine.
DiscountMentat
*a stepladder, yank
lance415
Step brother
Norwegiandiy
The step ladder on the inside of the house. Typically less dirtied and smaller than the one in the garage. It is used for high cupboards and dusting as well as changing light bulbs and hanging paintings.
mikeatike
Ok then maybe a better question is whytf is it called a "washing machine" ladder?
Norwegiandiy
It's usually by the washing machine. The washroom is often the inside appliance room. The janitor's closet if you will. Also. "No step ladder, what are you doing!?"
cardinal29
It's in the laundry room with the other household cleaning stuff.
mikeatike
Oh shit I do have one of these.
LiarLiarPantsUntier
That’s like asking about the three sea shells.
heathenhumanist
I'm definitely not over here Googling what "three sea shells" means...
erfnax
Drix1942
TinyLiehon
It's for reaching the top of the washing machine. Don't hate on the vertically disadvantaged, yo
koops
WhereIsMyAppleQuava
But why not have the washing machine on the ground?
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Probably stacked to save room.
minipancho94
....it....it is.... :(
WhereIsMyAppleQuava
Oh. As a tall person I shall think of you when I do my next load of laundry.