Slow down, Tarvarish.

"It's a "Porch-uh"" (ikazuchi)
07/25/2016 at 12:16 • Filed to: None

$25,00 EUR?!? What is that, like $25,000? How fast were you going?

Scheisse!

DISCUSSION (21)

For Sweden > It's a "Porch-uh"
07/25/2016 at 12:19

That feeling when you’re so attractive you can submit speed camera pictures to modeling agencies.

I do not know that feeling.

Klaus Schmoll > It's a "Porch-uh"
07/25/2016 at 12:20

25 Euro is nothing. That’s the smallest ticket you can get (around 5 kph over).

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > It's a "Porch-uh"
07/25/2016 at 12:20

In Europe their use of the comma/decimal point for currency notation is switched from what we use in the U.S.

It’s a small annoyance I experience almost daily working for a German company. It can be a bigger annoyance when dealing with some larger excel files. haha

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > It's a "Porch-uh"
07/25/2016 at 12:21

It appears that Germany is like France and uses a comma as a decimal.

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
07/25/2016 at 12:22

As the employee of a German company, I can confirm this.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
07/25/2016 at 12:24

On the one hand it’s weird, on the other it makes more sense (cents). Our system is dollars stop cents. Theirs would be dollars and also some cents.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > It's a "Porch-uh"
07/25/2016 at 12:25

A lot of Euro countries give tickets based on how much money you make. Unless he was just going really fast!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
07/25/2016 at 12:27

I think you mean “dollars and decimal (cents)”. It’s perfectly cogent, but coming from a different place - though the Germans are using a comma for a decimal point, not really a comma. Commas make sense only for a written sentence if parsed out that way, but if that’s what they’re meant to represent it’s fine. A comma would also make sense for a non-decimal currency, but since the end of the old pound, who even has one of those?

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
07/25/2016 at 12:28

But this is ‘Murica and we’re always right! If ye don’ like it, then ye can git out!

Kinja'd!!!

(The metric system makes so much more sense haha)

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
07/25/2016 at 12:31

Personally, since they use decimals for engine sizes, I think we ARE right.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/25/2016 at 12:33

What I mean is, if you’re reading the Euro way you see a comma, and then it just makes sense to see our way as a period. In which case DOLLARS. CENTS makes less sense than DOLLARS, CENTS.

But I think I know what you’re saying.

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
07/25/2016 at 12:35

In regard to number annotation, I agree. In regard to the way we measure everything else, standard v. metric, they are right. haha

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
07/25/2016 at 12:37

I can still say “we” are correct, because I’m a Canuck.

MUAHAHAHA

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
07/25/2016 at 12:43

“Suchandsuch point thisandthat dollars”. Using “point” for your decimals is more expandable than “and”, because “and” implies something/fractioneths. You can say “...and one hundred fifteen thousandths” or “...and 35 hundredths”, but the more artificial sounding “point one one five” or “point three five” works better if you are dealing with fractions of indeterminate accuracy. Here’s where it gets weird:

The Germans actually say “punkt” for a decimal in a number most of the time, if I recall this correctly. Whereas, we in the US have an old custom with check writing of saying “and xx hundredths”. In other words, you’d expect things to be exactly opposite of how they are. I blame the French.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/25/2016 at 12:47

The French are easy to blame. Let’s do that.

Cé hé sin > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
07/25/2016 at 12:54

“In Europe their use of the comma/decimal point for currency notation is switched from what we use in the U.S.”

Lives in Europe, doesn’t use this system...

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Cé hé sin
07/25/2016 at 13:00

Yeah, I meant to amend it after to say Germany at least, but ya know... Kinja. haha

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Klaus Schmoll
07/25/2016 at 13:11

I was stationed in Germany from ‘87 to ‘90. I was stationed in Würzburg and down by the river there was a 30kph zone and always a speed camera there. We went out to dinner in Repperndorf, at Gasthaus zur Stadt Kitzingen and we passed the camera while we were driving around. It was our last night in Germany. After we left, I figured I should have bought us each a pair of disguise glasses and blown past the camera with our license plate covered up.

Kinja'd!!!

Klaus Schmoll > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/25/2016 at 14:36

When I studied in Heidelberg, I had a vintage 50cc scooter. Like all motorcycles, it had no front plates. So the test if I had set up the carb correctly and gained 1 or 2 kph top speed was to see if I could trigger the speed camera on my way to university. I did it a lot at first but then got scared that one day the police might wait for the guy in the black helmet on the red scooter with a shoebox full of tickets.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Klaus Schmoll
07/25/2016 at 14:40

I got nailed one day for tailgating a guy who turned out to be Polizei . Stuck his wand out the window. He took DM40 from me in cash and gave me a sort-of receipt. My boss was riding with me and said, “He’s going to have a nice schnitzel for lunch.” I smile about that one. I really enjoyed my time in Deutschland.

It's a "Porch-uh" > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
07/25/2016 at 19:51

Apparently my sarcasm was lost on everybody.