Spyke
lemm.ee

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

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Stalinwolfreply
lemmy.ca

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.

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

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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.

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

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sh.itjust.works

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.

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robocallreply
lemmy.world

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

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

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Kusimulkkureply
lemm.ee

Personally I'm all about that Exclusion Zone kush

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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.

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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)

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

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There is a standard, compound modifiers preceding the noun. There are also exceptions, proper nouns and their transformations don’t get hyphenated.

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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.

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lemmy.ca

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).

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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.

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What a terrible measurement. They have to put in the title and margins the size of the rink just so people can understand it

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