So how did you get your nickname used here?

[axipher]

Ax'i'pher-- Latin for "Digger of Old Posts"

I'm not sure how I found this topic, I normally only browse the posts since last visit page, so I'm not sure how I got to this page, maybe through another post.

[tbbw]

i whas known as Wolf on the swedish BBS.
then i got internet and on every freaking irc server, homepage that whas taken.

then a few friends nicknamed me The Big Bad Wolf along with the song "no one is afraid of the big bad wolf" coz when i whas 14yr's old i whas kinda sarcastic and sometimes realy rude.
then i got the nick [[[TBBW]]] coz it looked cool... after going on diffrent ircd's and homepages i ditched the [] coz it takes to long time to type.
and it finaly became TbbW.
i'm still called wolf on some places doh or even TB but that's oldies calling me that

EDIT: it whas the homepages that made me ditch the [ ] and also ircnet that had a shorter nicklen.

[Anonymous]

wow, i really wasnt sure if you were somehow related to TBBQ o.o (an old inactive member of this forum)

[tbbw]

ur like person nr7 that ask me that...
no i'm not TBBQ lol
like ppl came in on the #freebasic channel and whent:
"woah?! is it realy you TBBQ?"
"no the W is not a typo"

[SJ Zero]

excellent counterpoint, moneo

Highly irrelevant; soda manufacturers can and do create 355ml cans and 600ml bottles.

How's this for a good arguement FOR the metric system: I'm not sure if any of you have ever had to do fluid mechanics, but here's how it works: Every single imperial calculation has a "password" in front of it -- some completely arbitrary number to convert the random numbers to something that resembles each other. In metric? Nothing does. Want to know the mass of a liquid based on it's specific gravity? In Imperial, break out your lookup tables. In metric, specific gravity * 1000 kg/m^3(The number of kilograms of water in a square meter). From Reynolds Number to Bernoullis equation, you've got some different largely arbitrary obstacle.

Another major issue is that the Imperial system doesn't account for the local gravity. This is a major issue; a pound of force in New Orleans isn't a pound of force in Denver Colorado, because the local gravity is different.

Yes, America put people on the moon using their primative system of non-coherent weights and measures. Remember though, that Japan is now the technological powerhouse it is under the Metric system.

Anyway, If you want to talk about waste, every single auto shop in America and around the world needs two sets of tools; two different kinds of nuts; two different kinds of bolts; two completely different sets of equipment and infastructure for the two types of vehicles: American ones, and the ones from everywhere else. I need to spend extra time heading to a store to buy the metric fittings which would function just fine for 5.5billion out of the 5.8 billion on earth, except for the Americans. The Americans are costing industry literally billions constantly.

The worst part is that you already use metric for some things: Nobody complains about using Volts, Amps, and Ohms. Threaten to take away their furlongs per fortnight, however, or their scores per league, and they get huffy...

Anyway, on to the thread topic.


SJ Zero started out as "Sir Jason" when I first entered a chat room. I grew up a bit, and didn't like it anymore, so I changed it to SJ(Two letter names were the style at the time). Later on, I decided to slap the 'Zero' on the end because I thought it looked cool. I've been through a lot with this name, so I don't feel like changing it.

[Anonymous]

why do they use lit[re]s, sj?

[anarky]

Why is it American's can't spell correctly either?

They spell litre as liter, metre as meter, etc. I don't know of anywhere else in the world who spells words wrong.

Some people can't eventalk properly.

"Nucular weapons"
I remember Bush saying that. Either W or his old man...

[j2krei08]

Mine was issued to me by my school. I have to use it for getting into the school's system, so I have become accustomed to it and I can type it fast. So, it's used for nearly all of my screen names (either that or radiumv (or radiumvinteractive))

[Deleter]

Why is it American's can't spell correctly either?

They spell litre as liter, metre as meter, etc. I don't know of anywhere else in the world who spells words wrong.

Some people can't eventalk properly.

"Nucular weapons"
I remember Bush saying that. Either W or his old man...

with the way litre/liter is pronounced here in the US, (lee-ter) litre would not make sense, that would be more like lee-tray. there is a sound inbetween the t sound and the r sound, so we stick the e inbetween the two. This seems natural to me just cuz its how I grew up. Personally I don't care if its rearranged, just don't make me add letters to stuff, colour is just plain stupid.

[anarky]

I suppose eventually "knife" will be "nife"...