• (disco) in reply to dkf

    …   have a sympathy like.

  • (disco) in reply to JBert

    It's the fact that at least one of the spreadsheets has to be printed out in full and then signed on each page by hand… that's the bit I don't like. (Everything else can be handled by another spreadsheet I've got that automates the three official ones.) Then I just have to explain to the auditor that February has fewer days in it than March and so the match-up of hours to centimonths will be variable.

  • (disco) in reply to Quietust

    Well, French French goes soixante-dix (sixty-ten) [70], quatre-vingt (four-twenty) [80], quatre-vingt-dix (four-twenty-ten) [90], but Belgian French replaced soixante-dix by septante and quatre-vingt-dix by nonante. The Swiss replaced quatre-vingt with huitante. Once upon a time there used to be octante too for 80, but that has disappeared. I should check out what they do in Quebec actually.

    Anyhow, a system based on 20s is absurd in decimal times of course. It's as if we'd still use inches, feet, yards and... oh, wait... .

  • (disco) in reply to YellowOnline
    YellowOnline:
    Anyhow, a system based on 20s is absurd in decimal times of course. It's as if we'd still use inches, feet, yards and... oh, wait... .

    Don't worry, there are 22 yards in a chain, which is itself an 80th of a mile…

  • (disco) in reply to faoileag

    Not even trying. In Russian the number for 40 is apparently a term meaning the number of squirrel pelts to make a fur coat (it looks like COPOK and is pronounced sorak), and the term for ninety means "nine but 100" which makes no sense at all. Also the number 1 is odin if you are referring to one thing, but if you are counting 1,2,3... it's ras. It looks like they had little to do in the long cold winters but make the language complicated.

  • Pentester (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that people call a tomato sauce "Marinara" (Subway does it too).

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk
    kupfernigk:
    It looks like they had little to do in the long cold winters but **to get drunk and** make the language complicated.

    FTFY.

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk
    kupfernigk:
    it looks like COPOK

    It looks more like сорок to me.

    The lojban word meaning 40 is spelled vono and is pronounced like Bono.

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Pentester
    Pentester:
    TRWTF is that people call a tomato sauce "Marinara" (Subway does it too).
    Um, are you confused? Marinara sauce is a real thing. And yes, it's a tomato sauce.
  • (disco) in reply to ben_lubar
    ben_lubar:
    It looks more like сорок to me.

    The lojban word meaning 40 is spelled vono and is pronounced like Bono.

    But does it sing?

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor
    Arantor:
    But does it sing?

    Given that this is lojban we're talking about, would you really want it to sing?

  • (disco) in reply to antiquarian
    antiquarian:
    Given that this is lojban we're talking about, would you really want it to sing?

    With the fishes?

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    With the fishes?

    That's sleep, though.

  • (disco) in reply to antiquarian
    antiquarian:
    Given that this is lojban we're talking about, would you really want it to sing?

    I don't especially want Bono to sing either but this doesn't appear to stop him doing so...

  • CigarDoug (unregistered) in reply to anonymous
    anonymous:
    TRWTF is that you are supposed to tip the driver when you already paid a delivery fee.
    Speaking as someone who delivered pizzas for a living several lifetimes ago, we used to get paid a delivery fee for each pizza, to offset gas money. We earned tips on top of it, and I was never asked to claim taxes on the tips. I could usually count on a dollar or more, not bad for the time.

    Once pizza companies started passing the delivery fee on to the customer, tips dried up, because the customer assumes the fee replaced the tip. By the way, the same thing happens with minimum wage increases and every other regulation do-gooders come up with: Everything gets passed on to the customer. The only guy who loses is the one stuck at minimum wage until he grows out of it, just like I did.

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to CigarDoug
    CigarDoug:
    anonymous:
    TRWTF is that you are supposed to tip the driver when you already paid a delivery fee.
    Speaking as someone who delivered pizzas for a living several lifetimes ago, we used to get paid a delivery fee for each pizza, to offset gas money. We earned tips on top of it, and I was never asked to claim taxes on the tips. I could usually count on a dollar or more, not bad for the time.

    Once pizza companies started passing the delivery fee on to the customer, tips dried up, because the customer assumes the fee replaced the tip. By the way, the same thing happens with minimum wage increases and every other regulation do-gooders come up with: Everything gets passed on to the customer. The only guy who loses is the one stuck at minimum wage until he grows out of it, just like I did.

    Waiters/resses get tips because they usually make $3 an hour or less; their employer gets away with paying them this because customers are expected to tip. Employees who make minimum wage don't get that argument.

    Yes, you're entitled to being reimbursed for your gas. Either by the customer (part of the tip), or by your employer (delivery charge), not both. Your employer should reimburse you per mile, not per pie.

    And yes, you're right. Passing every little fee on to the customer sucks for everyone.

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor
    Arantor:
    I don't especially want Bono to sing either but this doesn't appear to stop him doing so...

    I don't care if he sings so long as I don't have to listen.

  • (disco) in reply to TheCPUWizard
    TheCPUWizard:
    The heck with hours, minutes, seconds....Decimal days.... 9:00AM is 0.25, etc...

    (Oh wait, Excel and other programs do that already!)

    Even my ancient Excel knows that 09:00 is 0.375 etc.

  • C (unregistered)

    "Roger A." should note that there's no WTF in that image he submitted. That's just how times are shown in that part of Europe, with extra details, just like how you beyond the pond add your annoying AM/PM. :P (And for the record, the next bus leaves in just 4 minutes!)

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