How about you Yankees learnt to use the same units the rest of the world does? They are really simple, even Donald Trump could understand them (given time)
Kilometres are indeed abbreviated to km. However, the letter K is often used as a casual abbreviation, in 10 km runs.p as just one example. I volunteered as a radio operator last weekend at a 3/5/10K run/walk.
No need to get bent out of shape over the abbreviation. I have even given up trying to point out that meters are devices that measure, and metres are a unit of distance.
Yes, just “10K” would be “10 thousand”, but “a 10K” is a standard way to speak of a 10-kilometer run/race (at least it is here). Similar idea for “5K” and “a 5K”.
As a metric-loving Australian, please remove your pedantry. Any ‘kilo’ denomination being spoken as ‘kay’ and sub-abbreviated to K with context clarifying the underlying unit is commonplace. And the proper form of the prefix is a lower case k, so you’re still wrong there.
BugFanNo1Million, I agree to some extent, but you gotta admit the imperial system makes a lot more sense if you do math in the octal system (which, by the way, would make you BugFanNo3641100).
Also, I don’t get the US fondness with anything ‘imperial’…
I’ve also heard that 10 K is really cold. You’ll probably want to bring a jacket.
Six miles, Adam.
10K is six miles.
1K is .6 miles.
So you should *prefer* charity walks in kilometers over charity walks in miles.
I prefer the 10mm walks, myself.
How about you Yankees learnt to use the same units the rest of the world does? They are really simple, even Donald Trump could understand them (given time)
They are simple, but I wouldn’t hold my breath about the Drumph bothering himself.
Yeah, he pays people who know what they are doing to look after that sort of stuff.
yeah, that’s because metric is for people who are bad at math, and need a crutch.
Love the last frame.
You are so unfamiliar with the metric system you don’t even know that kilometer is Km and not K.
No, it’s “km”, short of “kilometers” which in turn is short for “1000 meters”.
Sorry, German.
You are so unfamiliar with running that you don’t know typical denominations.
I am so unfamiliar with not shambling that I don’t know running
Kilometres are indeed abbreviated to km. However, the letter K is often used as a casual abbreviation, in 10 km runs.p as just one example. I volunteered as a radio operator last weekend at a 3/5/10K run/walk.
No need to get bent out of shape over the abbreviation. I have even given up trying to point out that meters are devices that measure, and metres are a unit of distance.
Just “10K” means 10000. 10K km would be… hm, let’s just say he’d be gone for a while.
Yes, just “10K” would be “10 thousand”, but “a 10K” is a standard way to speak of a 10-kilometer run/race (at least it is here). Similar idea for “5K” and “a 5K”.
As a metric-loving Australian, please remove your pedantry. Any ‘kilo’ denomination being spoken as ‘kay’ and sub-abbreviated to K with context clarifying the underlying unit is commonplace. And the proper form of the prefix is a lower case k, so you’re still wrong there.
Well, 10K would, at the very least, be a new record for the Kessel Run.
I don’t think even Star Wars has that level of space-bending shenanigans yet.
Er… didn’t have. ….will not have had…?
…stupid distant space-past-future, making tenses all difficult and whatnot…
I love the fact that Bug doesn’t wear anything normally (or wears bug-patterned spandex?) but does wear something to participate in races.
Bugs don’t sweat, we perspire – quote – Thurston Howell III Bug
Typical American, too stubborn to learn the metric system, and instead sticking to your vastly inferior and illogical system.
One meter is 39.37 inches or 3.28 feet, which makes 5 meters about 1 rod, so 200 meters to a furlong with 8 furlongs per mile. Makes perfect sense.
Statements like that of Dimentio indicate a total lack of understanding of the concept of measurements.
BugFanNo1Million, I agree to some extent, but you gotta admit the imperial system makes a lot more sense if you do math in the octal system (which, by the way, would make you BugFanNo3641100).
Also, I don’t get the US fondness with anything ‘imperial’…
Perhaps it’s considered “vintage”, “antique” or something like that?
But it so annoys some Brits. That makes it worth the effort. ;^D
Not all of us are like that. The problem is that the people in charge (all politicians) are idiots.
Wow, Look at all the Metric Users in the comment section.
That’s very simple, actually. One kilometer is 1000 meters. So 10 kilometers are 10000 meters. Everything clear?
But what’s a meter? Is that like a LibertyYard™?
Yes, but how many pedantic people per kilometer?
Maybe about 10K?
too.
Everybody is harping on him for the metric system. But nobody notices that he is riding other runners for a ride home like an overgrown toddler.
Well, usually you don’t mention the things that are perfectly normal, do you?