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« Reply #285 on: November 05, 2015, 12:06:19 am »
Because you buy grams of coke. Which is why weed has been legalised in some states because it is sold by the ounce.

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« Reply #286 on: November 05, 2015, 01:20:47 am »
Because you buy grams of coke. Which is why weed has been legalised in some states because it is sold by the ounce.


*dingdingding*! Grams and kilos of most drugs. Grams (for like nickel or dime bags) and ounces/pounds of weed.
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« Reply #287 on: November 05, 2015, 11:49:50 am »
In India, prostitution is legal, but porn isn't (well, it's more complicated than that, but whatever).  How the hell does that make sense to anybody?

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« Reply #288 on: November 05, 2015, 12:21:42 pm »
Because you buy grams of coke. Which is why weed has been legalised in some states because it is sold by the ounce.

Um,  weed is sold by both metric and standard units of weight. The lower and upper ends buy metric while the middles get standard weights. All information about growing it is given in metric. If anything, legalizing marijuana will help usher in the metric system
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« Reply #289 on: November 05, 2015, 12:33:50 pm »
In India, prostitution is legal, but porn isn't (well, it's more complicated than that, but whatever).  How the hell does that make sense to anybody?

India still hasn't caught up with the fact the TV was invented.

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« Reply #290 on: November 05, 2015, 01:39:43 pm »
This talk about the metric system makes me remember that I had a Science teacher in Middle School that made everyone learn it.

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« Reply #291 on: November 05, 2015, 03:56:23 pm »
This talk about the metric system makes me remember that I had a Science teacher in Middle School that made everyone learn it.

Isn't that standard practice for everyone?

I know I had to learn both SI and (some) imperial units in science classes. I'll never know what an ounce is, but I can convert feet and inches to metres and Fahrenheit to Celsius.
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« Reply #292 on: November 05, 2015, 05:07:31 pm »
I think the reason we didn't get hoverboards is because Marty McFly was supposed to hit that car.  The driver then spent his time in traction and read book after book.  Eventually, he figured out how to create hover technology, which led to all the other 2015 tech we see in BTTF 2.  Also, his wife went back to work and wrote Jaws 5, which was actually a huge hit and resulted in over a dozen sequels. 

So in summary, we didn't get all that cool stuff because Marty was too selfish in thinking of improving his own life over the rest of the world.

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« Reply #293 on: November 05, 2015, 05:51:07 pm »
an ounce is roughly 27g, but i can't convert fahrenheit to celcius beyond 32°f=0°c

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Re: Random Thoughts Thread
« Reply #294 on: November 05, 2015, 06:36:01 pm »
an ounce is roughly 27g

30g is easier to multiply with.

but i can't convert fahrenheit to celcius beyond 32°f=0°c

A difference of 100°C is the same as a difference of 180°F. I never remember the exact conversion formula, but knowing that, along with the zero offsets, I can reconstruct it.
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« Reply #295 on: November 05, 2015, 07:49:01 pm »
In India, prostitution is legal, but porn isn't (well, it's more complicated than that, but whatever).  How the hell does that make sense to anybody?
Do they enforce it or is the porn ban just ignored?

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« Reply #296 on: November 05, 2015, 08:12:49 pm »
Prostitution takes you out of your home, but if you look at porn you're just wanking into your hand.

...Well, you can have sex with a prostitute in your house...but who'd have sex with a prostitute in their house? Isn't it normal to have sex with her / him out just out of sight in an alleyway?

Oh the nuances of prostitution vs. porn...
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« Reply #297 on: November 05, 2015, 08:24:31 pm »
Maybe the case in India is that prostitution is an ancient, "blind eye"/over-looked taboo survival job for un-dowered poor or orphaned girls and penniless widows? That's the case in a lot of really old cultures. Also, India is hardly a hot bed of hard-hearted Abrahamic religious dogma. Porn, though? In a country where custom and censors say no one can kiss in a movie scene, yeah, modern porn would not go over well. And yet, look at all the eroticism in the carved decorations on Hindu temples, and who gave us the world's first sex guide, in the Kamasutra?
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« Reply #298 on: November 05, 2015, 09:04:24 pm »
Tried one of the positions in there with one of my lady friends.

...we were both aching by the end, and not in a good way.
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« Reply #299 on: November 05, 2015, 09:06:55 pm »
Tried one of the positions in there with one of my lady friends.

...we were both aching by the end, and not in a good way.

i feel your pain... you know you flubbed something when the both of you say "i don't bend that way".
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