Ah yes, the Show Me How We Suck State.
Police were called to reports of an incident on Troost Avenue — less than five miles, or a 10-minute drive, from the training base camp and a little further in the other direction to the team hotel England will use during the tournament — at around 4am on Saturday morning.
In other words nothing to do with the World Cup, just business as usual.
Yeah but it’s a reminder to anyone willing to travel to the USA for the World Cup that the likelihood of you being shot is a lot higher than most other countries.
The United States:
troost ave
So just a regular Saturday morning then
As someone from the area. Sadly.
A 5 minute drive, can’t get a more US measurement than that I guess.
…less than five miles, or a 10-minute drive…
I think you mixed that up. 🤷♂️
~comprehend before you bash cultures.~
If America’s culture is gun violence I’m gonna bash the shit out of Americans.
You bringing a fist to a gun fight?
I think the actual number is irrelevant to the remark.
I’d take the bike though
It really works either way
Their news is going to always be in whatever old or weird measurement they use. It’s not intended for the world.
Their president has been comparing the size of the reflection pool to skyscrapers. Which is weird because they’ll often talk about the scale of a skyscraper in olympic swimming pools. And we know that’s always 50m so it’s easy to know what the skyscraper is in metric compared to if they used feet. If Trump would just say how many swimming pools the reflection pool is, everyone would be happy.
But anyway, point is; England training camp is about 161 Olympic swimming pools away from the shooting.
This image seems very wrong, as far as I know Australia, Canada, Ireland, and pretty much most of Europe should all be orange or purple and the United States should be red or orange. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 was voluntary only.
The only imperial units I’ve ever seen in Europe, excluding the UK, are pipes and screen sizes where we use inches. Which is quite curious, since nobody knows how long an inch is, so TV sizes are basically an abstract unit that we memorize.
Pipes are the same, people know what a 1/2 or 3/4 pipe is, but I’d bet nobody thinks of that as the same unit they use for TVs.
the diagonal measurement is just abstract now anyway. They’re even advertised as “XXin class” because the actual measurements don’t matter, people just want to know if it’s “the next size up” or not.
The screen sizes thing is pretty recent. Back in the day when we still used CRT’s it was common to use centimeters for TV sizes. It only really changed once TV’s got bigger.
I only have vague recollections of those days, but if you ask me, we used to measure TVs by the Kg… Those things were beefy AF.
Same in Australia. We measure tvs and monitors in inches, but literally no idea what an inch is lol
Australia went metric in the early 1970s, the only imperial vestiges remaining are a tendency to quote height in feet and inches as well as cm (younger people are as likely to use metric, old people cling to feet for that), literally everything else is metric unless dealing with the US forces it - ie car tyres worldwide are inches.
Pretty much all of Europe has been officially metric for over 100 years.
The relevant Wiki says Australia and Canada are officially metric since 1970, but that Canada halted metrification in 1985 and uses a lot of US customary units due to high reliance on US manufacturing.
But if they did what you suggest then they couldn’t bash America as easily. Come on! Get with the program!
That’s neat. But unrelated to the conversation. Thanks though.
Y’all keep missing the real threats and hitting your fellow workers
Worker identity and solidarity doesn’t exist in Missouri.
Name one stadium in an area not likely to have crime.
ah, yes, a shooting that injured nine people, just your average everyday crime
Nothing could have prevented this tradgety
-Only “developed” nation where mass shootings regularly happen.
But, hey, at least we have universal health-insurance for when tragedy like this happens.
/s
FREEDOM!
Used to live there. Glad I left. Sad regardless. People raise kids there and I can’t imagine what it’s like for them. But the area where the ground is at is secluded in the parks system connecting the city zoo and golf courses. I doubt it’s open to the public anyway.
I am stuck here so this sorta thing is what I’ve known all my life…
