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  • There are 20 fl oz. to a pint

    Instead of cups you should use half pints.

    There are 8 pints to the gallon.

    Unless you specify which pint, gallon then you’re probably wrong anywhere outside the US. Even then you could have to deal with vintage Canadian equipment with imperial labeling.

    US Cups are random in measurement and only sometimes half a pint.

    The imperial fluid oz. has one value 28.413 ml

    The US fl. oz used to be 29.573 ml. But now can officially be 30 ml in some settings.

    Metric is the best system, followed by imperial which at least is still a consistent standard.

    Then US customary measures where the written value may or may not have to meet a standard these days.

    The US has been using metric for everything important for a long time now like the rest of the world. Except the Mars probe NASA crashed.


  • Human papillomavirus HPV is responsible for warts on feet.

    So genital warts, mostly HSV (Herpes). Not nice but not particularly harmful most of the time. Cold sores and genital warts. Mouth, genitals. Won’t look nice but you won’t die.

    HPV - cancer.

    Further investigation on the evidence may be required but social acceptability chart above may be justified.

    If you have a foot fetish get vaccinated against HPV everyone.

    Also not googling this. Please take this comment with the respect and authority it deserves. (None)





  • Exactly.

    People were simultaneously told different things by different people on what would happen of the country voted leave. A lot of it obviously false even at the time.

    People might have known what they were voting for. But what they were voting for had no basis on what the government would actually do.

    Then we had the prime minister who held the referendum resign.

    A new prime minister is chosen in a private election amongst members of the conservative party (about 100,000 votes will do it normally but no one actually runs against them). This becomes a theme.

    There is legislation passed which essentially puts a clock on the process. If nothing passes we’d just revoke laws and break treaties.

    This was meant to scare the EU into giving us what we wanted. The EU was not overly concerned.

    The government put some very shoddy legislation together. We got a pretty poor deal from the EU, well we were pretty desperate.

    The government couldn’t pass that legislation

    We had an election for a new government

    The government lost seats and lost their majority

    The government then joined with a religious extremist party in Northern Ireland to give them a majority.

    The shoddy legislation becomes not only shoddy but also more extreme, It still can’t pass.

    The prime minister is ousted by their own party.

    We get a new prime minister.

    They still haven’t decided on the legislation but they tell everyone what they want to hear.

    We have an election

    The government gets a big working majority

    The shoddy extreme legislation, which we now know from first hand accounts the prime minister didn’t understand, still can’t pass.

    The government literally breaks the law and closes parliament illegally to try and run the clock closer to the point where we take a bonfire to massive ammous of legislation.

    The government are then forced back into the house by the courts

    Eventually at the last moment a deal is passed. It’s really bad for the UK economy, and the UK in general.

    The UK leaves the EU. Northern Ireland doesn’t. Well it sort of does.

    COVID and Another 2 prime ministers later and Brexit deals are still being negotiated.

    Essentially he EU has everything it needs. It’s protected the interests of bordering nations like the Republic of Ireland and France. The UK has increased friction on trade, labour issues.

    The current big issue is that France no longer helps us stop people crossing the channel. That was an EU agreement. So our government, now spends it’s time and energy trying to deport people to Rwanda, breaking the entirely separate European Convention on Human Rights Churchill’s government basically wrote and passed after the second world war.

    It’s worth noting that this government has had a vote share of 36.1% pre referendum in 2015 36.9% post referendum in 2017 42.4% post deadlock in 2019 (with the opposition getting 40%)

    The conservative party got that lock in 2019 on 55% of the seats with 42.4% of the vote

    Since then they’ve rotated people in and out of government to essentially do the bidding of the one who pays the most into their individual campaign funds against each other.

    The government refuse to allow an election even while they’re essentially changing constantly.

    We haven’t really got democracy in this country. We disenfranchise a lot of people through our electoral system by design. We concentrate power to a minority.

    It’s a mess.







  • All it is is whether a compound word is common enough.

    It starts in speech when the words are repeated next to each other often enough they start being thought of as one word. But can’t be shortened.

    If, in context, every time we said farmer we ended up saying dirt farmer. It would become compound. But in reality we’d just end up saying “farmer” when the context makes it clear. You’ll see this in writing about farming all the time, initially stating the type of farmer then just saying farmer.

    Flag pole started out separately, but in some conversations it would become one object. Every time we talked about the flag pole it would be one word, flagpole. But saying just “pole” would be ambiguous. There are other poles around.

    It trends towards shortness, if context allows us to drop a word altogether we will, if it doesn’t it gets compounded abbreviated.

    No formal rule for this at all, but that’s the way it happens. People try to say things more efficiently without confusing meaning.