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I can't stand people in the weight area that don't bother to rereack their weights when done. I also get annoyed when they won't put them on the right racks by plate size.8
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ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »
For a quick approximation, 1 cup is about equal to .25 liter.
...ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »These are measurements for volume.
1 cup is 8 oz
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eta: oh! and if anyone is wondering, a measuring cup is eight fluid ounces, not weighed ounces.
If we want to get technical the liquid measuring cups are not the same as dry measuring cups.
Myself, I weigh measured liquid portions and stick to the gram weight. I hate dragging out a bunch of measuring tools!
https://cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5450-dry-versus-liquid-measuring-cups
Unless you're Australian. Where a standard measuring cup sizes are the same for weight and volume, but still different to the US:
1 cup = 250mL
4 cups = 1 Litre
1 tablespoon = 15mL
1 tsp = 5mL
Yay for the metric system!
Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter? So I'm meant to smoosh the butter into the quarter cup (which may be a different volume to yours) and then try and scrape it all out with as little residue in the cup as possible? I don't care if it's ounces or grams since my scale can do both, for the worlds sake, give us values in weights.
The other thing I hate at the moment is pedestrians who either:
a) don't know how to walk straight and keep to one side of the footpath, or
b) think its fine to stop dead in a peak hour crowd with people still walking behind them (I may have kneed a guy in the junk by accident because of it this morning, and the *kitten* tried to say it was all my fault).
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mangrothian wrote: »Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter?
Stick of butter:
As you can see 1/4 cup is about half the stick. You just cut it.
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I hate ex-spouses. Especially when it's your spouse's ex-spouse. I thought all the drama was behind us after 15 years. Nope. Turns out she's going to be just as nuts about our son (my stepson) going to college as she was about him going to kindergarten.8
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mangrothian wrote: »ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »
For a quick approximation, 1 cup is about equal to .25 liter.
...ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »These are measurements for volume.
1 cup is 8 oz
...
eta: oh! and if anyone is wondering, a measuring cup is eight fluid ounces, not weighed ounces.
If we want to get technical the liquid measuring cups are not the same as dry measuring cups.
Myself, I weigh measured liquid portions and stick to the gram weight. I hate dragging out a bunch of measuring tools!
https://cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5450-dry-versus-liquid-measuring-cups
Unless you're Australian. Where a standard measuring cup sizes are the same for weight and volume, but still different to the US:
1 cup = 250mL
4 cups = 1 Litre
1 tablespoon = 15mL
1 tsp = 5mL
Yay for the metric system!
Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter? So I'm meant to smoosh the butter into the quarter cup (which may be a different volume to yours) and then try and scrape it all out with as little residue in the cup as possible? I don't care if it's ounces or grams since my scale can do both, for the worlds sake, give us values in weights.
The other thing I hate at the moment is pedestrians who either:
a) don't know how to walk straight and keep to one side of the footpath, or
b) think its fine to stop dead in a peak hour crowd with people still walking behind them (I may have kneed a guy in the junk by accident because of it this morning, and the *kitten* tried to say it was all my fault).
And to any Brits, "8 ounces" will not be the same as an American sized cup because, despite a persistent habit that has crept onto the Internet of calling American customary units "Imperial", they actually aren't. It's the pre-metric British units that are Imperial, and the most noticeable difference between the two is in measures of volume. An Imperial fluid ounce is smaller than an American fluid ounce. However, the Imperial pint (of 20 oz) is larger than the American pint (of 16 oz) and so are all bigger units. The Imperial gallon is about 20% larger than an American gallon.
And a standard American stick of butter is 1/4 lb (113g), about 1/2 cup (American) in terms of volume.1 -
..that we have to sleep! So much to do, see and be. We have a lot to appreciate and look forward to. Get off the couch, out of social media and talk to someone F2F. Enjoy being near someone and watch their expressions. See them. Listen. Wonder and explore.2
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crooked_left_hook wrote: »I also hate when people don't pick up their dog's poop. One of the schools in my area had the students make these pictures and they hung them all over the corner where the bus stop is. There's about 100 of them hanging out there. It's amazing!
I Love This!! I hate when the dog owners wait for the dog to poop and walk on by with the dog. The dog seems more embarrassed then the owner. There are some ppl that have their little plastic bags and YAY for those ppl! Those kids pictures and the idea behind it is simply brilliant! I feel like making a couple signs and personalizing them... "Hey lady with 2 black dogs PICK UP DA POOP!" "Hey Guy that walks the black and white little scruffy dog that never stops barking PICK UP HIS POOP" oh and there's so many more.. there would be signs all over the corners!
I have intrusive thoughts enter my head they include ..... picking up that dog poop and shoving it down the back of their shirt. Also running through my mind picking up the poop and leaving it on their windshield with a note... "hey buddy you forgot something". Course I don't know these ppl or where they live... so it'd have to be down the back of their shirt... but I love the idea of the windshield best!
whew... strangely I feel better now. :laugh: Might be I got worked up just now because I found dog poop on my shoe yesterday when feeding the birds.
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mangrothian wrote: »ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »
For a quick approximation, 1 cup is about equal to .25 liter.
...ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »These are measurements for volume.
1 cup is 8 oz
...
eta: oh! and if anyone is wondering, a measuring cup is eight fluid ounces, not weighed ounces.
If we want to get technical the liquid measuring cups are not the same as dry measuring cups.
Myself, I weigh measured liquid portions and stick to the gram weight. I hate dragging out a bunch of measuring tools!
https://cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5450-dry-versus-liquid-measuring-cups
Unless you're Australian. Where a standard measuring cup sizes are the same for weight and volume, but still different to the US:
1 cup = 250mL
4 cups = 1 Litre
1 tablespoon = 15mL
1 tsp = 5mL
Yay for the metric system!
Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter? So I'm meant to smoosh the butter into the quarter cup (which may be a different volume to yours) and then try and scrape it all out with as little residue in the cup as possible? I don't care if it's ounces or grams since my scale can do both, for the worlds sake, give us values in weights.
The other thing I hate at the moment is pedestrians who either:
a) don't know how to walk straight and keep to one side of the footpath, or
b) think its fine to stop dead in a peak hour crowd with people still walking behind them (I may have kneed a guy in the junk by accident because of it this morning, and the *kitten* tried to say it was all my fault).
An Australian tablespoon is actually 20 mL... Just to make life difficult.2 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »mangrothian wrote: »ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »
For a quick approximation, 1 cup is about equal to .25 liter.
...ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »These are measurements for volume.
1 cup is 8 oz
...
eta: oh! and if anyone is wondering, a measuring cup is eight fluid ounces, not weighed ounces.
If we want to get technical the liquid measuring cups are not the same as dry measuring cups.
Myself, I weigh measured liquid portions and stick to the gram weight. I hate dragging out a bunch of measuring tools!
https://cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5450-dry-versus-liquid-measuring-cups
Unless you're Australian. Where a standard measuring cup sizes are the same for weight and volume, but still different to the US:
1 cup = 250mL
4 cups = 1 Litre
1 tablespoon = 15mL
1 tsp = 5mL
Yay for the metric system!
Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter? So I'm meant to smoosh the butter into the quarter cup (which may be a different volume to yours) and then try and scrape it all out with as little residue in the cup as possible? I don't care if it's ounces or grams since my scale can do both, for the worlds sake, give us values in weights.
The other thing I hate at the moment is pedestrians who either:
a) don't know how to walk straight and keep to one side of the footpath, or
b) think its fine to stop dead in a peak hour crowd with people still walking behind them (I may have kneed a guy in the junk by accident because of it this morning, and the *kitten* tried to say it was all my fault).
An Australian tablespoon is actually 20 mL... Just to make life difficult.
really?
*googles Aus tablespoon*
I stand corrected. Every tablespoon in my house is 15mL. All bought from Australian stores. And that means 4 teaspoons to a tablespoon instead of 3, because our teaspoon is still 5mL...
Earth needs a universal measurement system, stat.Chef_Barbell wrote: »mangrothian wrote: »Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter?
Stick of butter:
As you can see 1/4 cup is about half the stick. You just cut it.
Except we don't get butter in sticks, they come in 250g / 500g pats. And the only metric measurements on that package are in mLs, so there's no gram conversion. I wish there was a vote button so I could find out if people actually measure butter in mLs. Not to mention that I'm sure the density of solid vs liquid butter would be different...
My head hurts...4 -
mangrothian wrote: »Earth needs a universal measurement system, stat.
The rest of the Earth does have a universal measurement system. The lone holdout would not be significant, were it not the United States of America.5 -
Parents who get upset with teachers because their child is failing a high school class when the parent refuses to send the child to school because they have to walk in the snow.
Teaching metric measure to American students merely for the purpose of Science class.3 -
Wow, I'm really hating on stuff tonight! Here's just a few:
People who answer their cell phones in a restaurant and then have a loud conversation as if they're sitting in their own living room.
Pedestrians (sorry, but usually teens) who take their sweet *kitten* time crossing the street while looking at their phones.
Facebook posters who post obscure things like "Worst day ever!" and then wait to see how many people ask why.
Also along with the other haters - people who don't pick up their dog's poo. Recently saw someone "fake" pick up the poo because other people were watching, but she didn't really pick it up. Poo-poo fail.
Parsnips.
Jagermeister.9 -
Jeannie3099 wrote: »People who just want to do nothing and then complain about their weight.
This. This drives me crazy. I run a weight loss competition type thing on Whatsapp (nothing big, just a bunch of friends trying to motivate each other) and my sister asked me if a friend of hers could join, so I agreed. So I add her in, and the conversation goes something like this:
Me: So, what sort of plan are you trying out to lose weight? Person A here is using low-carb, Person B is counting calories, Person C is (etc)...
New person: Wait, a plan? I don't have a plan.
Me: So how are you going to go about losing weight? Are you going to create a deficit by eating less? Maybe doing some exercise?
New person: But I don't WANT to eat less. And I'm too lazy to exercise. But I want to lose 10 kg...
Me: ... -goes off into a private chat with my sister and threatens to feed her to alligators for subjecting me to this-9 -
Susieq_1994 wrote: »Jeannie3099 wrote: »People who just want to do nothing and then complain about their weight.
This. This drives me crazy. I run a weight loss competition type thing on Whatsapp (nothing big, just a bunch of friends trying to motivate each other) and my sister asked me if a friend of hers could join, so I agreed. So I add her in, and the conversation goes something like this:
Me: So, what sort of plan are you trying out to lose weight? Person A here is using low-carb, Person B is counting calories, Person C is (etc)...
New person: Wait, a plan? I don't have a plan.
Me: So how are you going to go about losing weight? Are you going to create a deficit by eating less? Maybe doing some exercise?
New person: But I don't WANT to eat less. And I'm too lazy to exercise. But I want to lose 10 kg...
Me: ... -goes off into a private chat with my sister and threatens to feed her to alligators for subjecting me to this-
This!! And also "But its EASY for you to lose weight. I can't do it"
No it's not easy, I bust my butt in the gym and I refuse the cake 5 days a week. It's *kitten* hard!! Don't down play my awesomeness just cos you don't want to do it!!
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ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »Recipes that don't give specific measurements!! No offence to the Americans on here, but what the **** is a cup?? How big of a cup? And a "dash" of soy sauce could be anything from a teaspoon full to a full on tidal wave. And there are times that google won't help at all, it gives you different weights for a cup measurement.
These are measurements for volume.
1 cup is 8 oz
3/4 cup is 6 oz
1/2 cup is 4 oz
1/3 cup is 2 1/3 oz
1/4 cup is 2 oz
Then you get into Tablespoons and teaspoons which are 1 oz and less.
Some people like to use measuring cups and some like to weigh. I prefer to use a food scale and weigh out everything in grams. I only use measuring cups if my scale is broken. I will add, sometimes depending on the density of a certain item the weight may not be 8 oz for a cup.
You meant liquid ounces, right? Because '8 liquid ounces' will be just as useless for a French person than 'a cup', lol.
Because 1 cup is definitely not always 8oz of solids. Weights /= volumes.
I also dislike cup measurements in recipes and would rather use an English or French recipe whenever possible (or King Arthur).
This is a much better conversion table of volume/weights but it's still completely off for some recipes (I tried 120g of flour for one cup for bread once... total disaster)
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/learn/ingredient-weight-chart.html3 -
You meant liquid ounces, right? Because '8 liquid ounces' will be just as useless for a French person than 'a cup', lol.
Because 1 cup is definitely not always 8oz of solids. Weights /= volumes.
That's right. And confusingly, the American and Imperial systems use the same unit names for both small volumes and small weights. Very few people say "fluid ounces" when they mean the measure of volume; you have to infer which is meant from context. The cups pictured here technically measure fluid ounces, but they're designed as dry volume measures to be overfilled and then leveled off with a knife, that being how you get the most accurate amounts.
But measurement of certain solids by volume, like flour, works well enough most of the time. It's the larger-grained things like cold cereal that's likely to be significantly off. (Although it is true that measurement by weight is more accurate in all cases, particularly with modern digital scales.)1 -
mangrothian wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »mangrothian wrote: »ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »
For a quick approximation, 1 cup is about equal to .25 liter.
...ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »These are measurements for volume.
1 cup is 8 oz
...
eta: oh! and if anyone is wondering, a measuring cup is eight fluid ounces, not weighed ounces.
If we want to get technical the liquid measuring cups are not the same as dry measuring cups.
Myself, I weigh measured liquid portions and stick to the gram weight. I hate dragging out a bunch of measuring tools!
https://cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5450-dry-versus-liquid-measuring-cups
Unless you're Australian. Where a standard measuring cup sizes are the same for weight and volume, but still different to the US:
1 cup = 250mL
4 cups = 1 Litre
1 tablespoon = 15mL
1 tsp = 5mL
Yay for the metric system!
Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter? So I'm meant to smoosh the butter into the quarter cup (which may be a different volume to yours) and then try and scrape it all out with as little residue in the cup as possible? I don't care if it's ounces or grams since my scale can do both, for the worlds sake, give us values in weights.
The other thing I hate at the moment is pedestrians who either:
a) don't know how to walk straight and keep to one side of the footpath, or
b) think its fine to stop dead in a peak hour crowd with people still walking behind them (I may have kneed a guy in the junk by accident because of it this morning, and the *kitten* tried to say it was all my fault).
An Australian tablespoon is actually 20 mL... Just to make life difficult.
really?
*googles Aus tablespoon*
I stand corrected. Every tablespoon in my house is 15mL. All bought from Australian stores. And that means 4 teaspoons to a tablespoon instead of 3, because our teaspoon is still 5mL...
Earth needs a universal measurement system, stat.Chef_Barbell wrote: »mangrothian wrote: »Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter?
Stick of butter:
As you can see 1/4 cup is about half the stick. You just cut it.
Except we don't get butter in sticks, they come in 250g / 500g pats. And the only metric measurements on that package are in mLs, so there's no gram conversion. I wish there was a vote button so I could find out if people actually measure butter in mLs. Not to mention that I'm sure the density of solid vs liquid butter would be different...
My head hurts...
Ah - I can help with this one. The box (1 lb = 4 sticks) of butter in my fridge supplies the information that 1/2 oz (14 grams) is 1 TBS. So, each stick of butter is equal to 112 grams.5 -
Susieq_1994 wrote: »Jeannie3099 wrote: »People who just want to do nothing and then complain about their weight.
This. This drives me crazy. I run a weight loss competition type thing on Whatsapp (nothing big, just a bunch of friends trying to motivate each other) and my sister asked me if a friend of hers could join, so I agreed. So I add her in, and the conversation goes something like this:
Me: So, what sort of plan are you trying out to lose weight? Person A here is using low-carb, Person B is counting calories, Person C is (etc)...
New person: Wait, a plan? I don't have a plan.
Me: So how are you going to go about losing weight? Are you going to create a deficit by eating less? Maybe doing some exercise?
New person: But I don't WANT to eat less. And I'm too lazy to exercise. But I want to lose 10 kg...
Me: ... -goes off into a private chat with my sister and threatens to feed her to alligators for subjecting me to this-
Ugh annoying! My response would have been "Since this group is for people who actually intend to lose weight by trying not wishing, I don't think this is the group for you. You're welcome to come back if you have a change of mind. For now, I delete you."6 -
Susieq_1994 wrote: »Jeannie3099 wrote: »People who just want to do nothing and then complain about their weight.
This. This drives me crazy. I run a weight loss competition type thing on Whatsapp (nothing big, just a bunch of friends trying to motivate each other) and my sister asked me if a friend of hers could join, so I agreed. So I add her in, and the conversation goes something like this:
Me: So, what sort of plan are you trying out to lose weight? Person A here is using low-carb, Person B is counting calories, Person C is (etc)...
New person: Wait, a plan? I don't have a plan.
Me: So how are you going to go about losing weight? Are you going to create a deficit by eating less? Maybe doing some exercise?
New person: But I don't WANT to eat less. And I'm too lazy to exercise. But I want to lose 10 kg...
Me: ... -goes off into a private chat with my sister and threatens to feed her to alligators for subjecting me to this-
As frustrating as this may be, this really gets at the heart of why people are obese. No one wants to be overweight, but they have trouble convincing themselves to do the things they need to do to lose weight. If we could figure out how to help people do that, the world would be a lot thinner.2 -
I hate when I go to add food to my diary and it doesn't have grams as an option for serving size. But since I have got this memorized:
1 oz ~= 28.5 grams
8 oz ~= 228 grams
1tbsp~= 15 grams
1tsp ~= 5 grams
And I get that that won't work for all liquids as some are more dense, (like honey/butter, etc), but it holds up to be pretty close for most water based things.3
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