Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "" video.

@Mark Heyne, water doesn't boil at 100C. I know this because I"ve measured it quite a few times and it only comes out when I'm at home. If I go into the mountains, it no longer boils at 100C. You think that the SI units make more sense than the imperial ones do because that's what you grew up with. In reality, they're completely arbitrary and even less intuitive than the imperial measures. If we're being objective about it, both systems are arbitrary, but unlike the SI units, the Imperial measures are based on the human body, so you learn how your body relates to the system and then you can estimate everything in an intuitive way. The Celsius scale is probably the most egregious case of the SI units being worse than the Imperial ones. A person's body temperature is roughly the same no matter where he is in the universe. Granted, the measures were a little off and that probably should be fixed, but water only boils at 100C under standard conditions. Move up the hill and it changes, move to another planet and it changes. And worse is that you don't compare temperatures to those points ever, that's for calibrating thermometers, you compare to your body temperature the way everybody else does.
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@Joelmgarten, First off, our grammar is perfectly fine, just look at those abominations of dialects that pop up all over Great Britain and the rest of the common wealth and say we're butchering the language. We're not butchering it anywhere near as bad as your folks do. Secondly, I'm sure the folks of Elizabethan England would say the same thing about your use of the language. As far as July 4th goes, we use of because it emphasizes the day over the month. We could also do that via the usual way of showing possession, but you still wind up with the thing being possessed after the possessor. Lastly, if we're going to choose a "correct" English, that English is American English as most native speakers of English are American and it's growing every year.
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@Two Mewtwos in Too-toos, pretty much. We will do that occasionally if we find the date to be particularly important. But, in general, when we use the date of month format it's an indication that we're speaking it out in little endian formatting. We only do that when we need or want to emphasize the date of the month because it makes no sense otherwise. If I want to schedule for the 5th, is that tomorrow or is that some months from now? \ Because we go month first, you can switch to the correct month of the calendar before looking up the schedule of the day. Whereas with the stupid DD/MM/YYYY formatting, that only works if you're talking about a day in the current month.
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The same reason we use dative movement in English to change the word order of our sentences. Sometimes we want to emphasize the day, but usually we want to emphasize the month. The way we do things in America is much more flexible than how they do them elsewhere in these cases. By adding a strategic of, we can speak it as DD/MM/YYYY format without people getting confused. We can also remove the of and put it back in the order it should be without confusion. The same goes for our measures, if we want to use decimals we can, if we don't want to we don't. In which case we use units that are usually of convenient lengths. The real question shouldn't be why we do these things like we do, it should be why everybody outside of America seems to think that these backwards systems are so convenient when they were never designed to make life easier for non-scientific pursuits.
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@Nathan Lang and in China it could have happened on New Years Day 2009. Crazy people are rather innovative when they're being crazy.
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They also use Zulu for time, which is basically UTC. Presumably, that's because the military operates internationally. So, contractors operating in foreign nations are picking up and delivering based on the local calendar, which is usually little endian. Same goes for any meetings and operations with foreign personnel, they're all likely using the other date format. If you look at the list of countries that don't use that format, they're mostly rivals and adversaries.
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