Dirty Airline Seats

[PrincessKsMom]

Hint: Liberia and Myanmar....

Maybe we should dredge up that thread where I tried to be helpful and posted both oz and ml as many of the posters here may not understand metric. That resulted in my being called a somethingorother for apparently insulting the collective intelligence of the Transportation Board.

Thank you PrincessK'sMom for your support of my stance and for making my point for me I know that I can always count on you!

And I freely admit over and over here that I don't speak feet, miles, or Fahrenheit, and I am not offended by that fact!

Myanmar/Burma, whatever showoff.

 

[ironz]

Hint: Liberia and Myanmar....

Maybe we should dredge up that thread where I tried to be helpful and posted both oz and ml as many of the posters here may not understand metric. That resulted in my being called a somethingorother for apparently insulting the collective intelligence of the Transportation Board.

Thank you PrincessK'sMom for your support of my stance and for making my point for me I know that I can always count on you!

And I freely admit over and over here that I don't speak feet, miles, or Fahrenheit, and I am not offended by that fact!

Thank goodness, between my job as a physician and my main hobby as an athlete, I am pretty darn fluent in metric!

Now, I wonder how many people are attuned to the fact that Alaska (seen nicely in red on the map) is actually attached to North America? Seems like during the last Presidential Election (when Sarah P brought attention to Alaska) a lot of people didn't know that.

 

[crashbb]

Thank goodness, between my job as a physician and my main hobby as an athlete, I am pretty darn fluent in metric!

Now, I wonder how many people are attuned to the fact that Alaska (seen nicely in red on the map) is actually attached to North America? Seems like during the last Presidential Election (when Sarah P brought attention to Alaska) a lot of people didn't know that.

Ummm...where did they think Alaska was??

A study that I was working on was in collaboration with a few US groups (and was funded by the NIH), so we reported everything in US measures. I freaked out a patient when they heard me say that their haemoglobin was 8.6 - they are used to hearing 86!

And yes, 86 is low as well, but these are patients with heamoglobinopathies (hemoglobinopathies) - their "normal" is a bit different than the rest of us.

 

[dudspizza]

Ummm...where did they think Alaska was??

A study that I was working on was in collaboration with a few US groups (and was funded by the NIH), so we reported everything in US measures. I freaked out a patient when they heard me say that their haemoglobin was 8.6 - they are used to hearing 86!

And yes, 86 is low as well, but these are patients with heamoglobinopathies (hemoglobinopathies) - their "normal" is a bit different than the rest of us.

Imagine how my elementary school students feel when we measure everything in PE by feet, inches, miles, etc..... then comes track and field day and they have to run the 50 meter dash...... some think I am going to make them run a marathon........ I tell them the 50 meter dash sounds better than the 164.04199 foot dash or the 54.680665 yard dash!!!!!

Duds

 

[ironz]

Ummm...where did they think Alaska was??

A study that I was working on was in collaboration with a few US groups (and was funded by the NIH), so we reported everything in US measures. I freaked out a patient when they heard me say that their haemoglobin was 8.6 - they are used to hearing 86!

And yes, 86 is low as well, but these are patients with heamoglobinopathies (hemoglobinopathies) - their "normal" is a bit different than the rest of us.

A lot of people thought Alaska was in the Pacific Ocean. Not connected to the continent. I assume because on many US maps, it is shown in a separate box out to the west, like Hawaii. Crazy!

 

[NHdisneylover]

I have met a staggeringly large number of people who think Alaska is in the Pacific very near Hawaii (presumably because of the boxes on maps). Most of them do know Alaska is cold and snowy and Hawaii is warm and tropical. I am not sure how they reconcile their knowledge of the climates with this belief that the two are located side by side

Then again, about this time last year when we were getting ready to move to Germany I had two people tell me I was brave to move to a "third world country" (one of those a mom homeschooling a high school girl) and another ask me how I felt about living under the communist regime (no this was not someone making political commentary--they honestly believed all of modern day Germany is under communist rule). I got lots of other comments but those stood out as the most amazingly misinformed

 

[bavaria]

Well neither of that is surprising. According to many on this website we are dirty and smelly foreigners, so they may well think that we are located in the no longer existent 'third world'

And a good number of posters on the Community Board equate the social market economy with 'communism'. I am quite certain that my family from the DDR would have something to say about that if we were still permitted to discuss politics.

What were we talking about again?!

Oh, yes, for PrincessK'sMom - someone just came in and 'cleaned' around me with a rather brown cloth; wiping just spread some dirt around and transferred dirt from the other table onto mine. So I agree with your scepticism about 'cleaning'

 

[NHdisneylover]

Well is surprised me. I truly thought people knew a bit more about the current state of the world than that You are absolutely right about the "dirt and smelly" part. TONS of people (all of whom admitted upon questioning that they had never been to Germany) went on about how dirty, or filfthy it is here Even the kids were like, huh? You know I have not been nearly as many place as most people on these boards, but of the places I have been only Switzerland has cleaner public spaces than Germany. Not sanitized, just clean mind you

 

[kaytieeldr]

Huh? I've never been to Germany and I know it's not dirty and smelly - at least not to any greater degree than any other comparable country and better than many (are you listing, United States?)

 

[NHdisneylover]

Yeah, that is pretty much how I feel about it ("huh?"). Funny thing is, I half way expect that reaction when we talk about visiting my parents in Mexico, which as it's cleaner and messier parts. I especially expected it during the years when they lived in small village and were the only gringos in town--but I got it much more about Germany than we ever did about Mexico For Mexico we mostly just got the oooh, yo uget to go to the beach, how lucky reaction (except for the one lady in playgroup when DD was a toddler who threatened to report me to CPS for taking DD there, but she was a little nutty).

 

[bavaria]

(are you listing, United States?)

Are they tipping over into the water and splashing HI and AK???

 

[NHdisneylover]

Are they tipping over into the water and splashing HI and AK???

Good catch

 

[goofy4tink]

A friend posted this on Facebook today, and it seemed approriate (re the metric system).

Countries that don't use metric:

Isn't the red a pretty colour? Especially the one far from the centre of the map? Pity the map is not labelled though.

Okay, now I have to find that thread.

I'm gonna be in big trouble if that red ever changes to white!!

Hint: Liberia and Myanmar....

Maybe we should dredge up that thread where I tried to be helpful and posted both oz and ml as many of the posters here may not understand metric. That resulted in my being called a somethingorother for apparently insulting the collective intelligence of the Transportation Board.

Thank you PrincessK'sMom for your support of my stance and for making my point for me I know that I can always count on you!

And I freely admit over and over here that I don't speak feet, miles, or Fahrenheit, and I am not offended by that fact!

Braggart..show off!! I'm impressed that you not only know it's Myanmar, but that you can spell it.

 

[Alesia]

I have met a staggeringly large number of people who think Alaska is in the Pacific very near Hawaii (presumably because of the boxes on maps). Most of them do know Alaska is cold and snowy and Hawaii is warm and tropical. I am not sure how they reconcile their knowledge of the climates with this belief that the two are located side by side

Then again, about this time last year when we were getting ready to move to Germany I had two people tell me I was brave to move to a "third world country" (one of those a mom homeschooling a high school girl) and another ask me how I felt about living under the communist regime (no this was not someone making political commentary--they honestly believed all of modern day Germany is under communist rule). I got lots of other comments but those stood out as the most amazingly misinformed

Yes, I've noticed that Geography isn't really our thing in this country. Neither, apparently, is thinking...

 

[TrustedTraveler]

Amazing how this post ran on for 7 pages so far. In response to the OP my thoughts were: good idea, I'll pack some wipes in a baggie for our next trip. End of story.

I'll admit I gave up reading every post at about page four, so can someone tell me: have we covered Sarah Palin yet?

 

[bavaria]

Nah, 7 pages is nothing. NHDisneylover, kaytieeldr and I tend to cover the 'night shift' around here. The Transportation Board has a lot of warm and fuzzy people who like to talk, and that went on for most of the seven. There was some kissing and hugging around page 4, I believe, amongst the regulars.

Page 5 and 6 were really interesting when the scientist types appeared to give us some school lessons. Then the resident PE teacher showed up to mix science with sports.

It was a fascinating thread thus far.

Who says we are evil poopyheads?!

 

[safetymom]

Glad to hear someone has the night shift covered.

 

[NHdisneylover]

Amazing how this post ran on for 7 pages so far. In response to the OP my thoughts were: good idea, I'll pack some wipes in a baggie for our next trip. End of story.

I'll admit I gave up reading every post at about page four, so can someone tell me: have we covered Sarah Palin yet?

I think she did come up 'round 'bout the time we were discussing people who believe Alaska is floating in the Pacific near Hawaii As Bavaira says, mostly just night shift chatter

 

[crashbb]

Who says we are evil poopyheads?!

The OP?

Okay, she only things that we are selfish and dirty.

Duds - your kids are like me when I run races in the US. I'm used to running 42.2km or 21.1km (depending on if I'm doing the full or the half) and instead have to run 26.1 or 13.1 miles. It is strange having the markers so far apart!
And, for full disclosure, when I say "run races" I mean "participate in organised events during which I attempt not to be the last person across the finish line". When I did the NYC marathon, the winner was at about the 10km mark before I hit the start line!

I'm still waiting for someone with chemical sensitivities to come to the thread and tell those that use Lysol wipes that they are endangering her/his life. I've seen it happen before (it was a thread in which people were saying that they wiped down the seat/bars on rides with wipes).

 

[ironz]

The OP?

Okay, she only things that we are selfish and dirty.

Duds - your kids are like me when I run races in the US. I'm used to running 42.2km or 21.1km (depending on if I'm doing the full or the half) and instead have to run 26.1 or 13.1 miles. It is strange having the markers so far apart!
And, for full disclosure, when I say "run races" I mean "participate in organised events during which I attempt not to be the last person across the finish line". When I did the NYC marathon, the winner was at about the 10km mark before I hit the start line!

I'm still waiting for someone with chemical sensitivities to come to the thread and tell those that use Lysol wipes that they are endangering her/his life. I've seen it happen before (it was a thread in which people were saying that they wiped down the seat/bars on rides with wipes).

Crashbb...the opposite for me...I have done only a few races where the distance markers are in km--one notably in Austria, which was a very clean country in my experience-- so I loved that they were so close together!
And my definition of racing is similar: "there's a start line and finish line and I get a t-shirt."