h a l f b a k e r yFutility is persistent.
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
| |
This wouldn't make sense, as anyone wanting their *accustomed dimensions* would require a *custom* spoon, not a standarized one. |
|
| |
The plan is that after a few years of only using the standardised sizes, everyone would be accustomed to one of them. |
|
| |
It is the diversity of teaspoon design which enables me to select an appropriate spoon for the purpose at hand. |
|
| |
I use a pointy one for extracting the last of the honey, a square shouldered one for scraping peanut butter from the upper corners of the jar, a voluminous one for measuring sugar into my first cup of coffee, a long handled one for imparting maximum velocity to small projectiles and a light one for rapping upon the forehead of a perpetrator of poor humour. |
|
| |
Without the array of tools available to me, each of the above tasks would be compromised. |
|
| |
Also, with standardised spoons, the Chinese offspring in the old joke would all be named Ping-Ping Ping. |
|
| |
If you had an appropriate teaspoon, you could use it to remove this fishbone. |
|
| |
Great. Next thing you know, you'll be getting you door kicked down by the Spoon Police.... |
|
| |
Clearly [Twizz] needs the new Swiss Army Teaspoon. |
|
| |
"Cucullus non facit monachum" |
|
| |
[Ian T]: Your country regulates the sale of teaspoons? Wow. And I thought the Brussels Eurocrats were bad. |
|
| |
"They came first for the knives,
and I didn't speak up because I didn't use knives. |
|
| |
Then they came for the forks,
and I didn't speak up because I didn't use forks. |
|
| |
Then they came for the tablespoons,
and I didn't speak up because I didn't use tablespoons. |
|
| |
Then they came for the teaspoons;
and by that time I had nothing left to stir my tea with ..." |
|
| |
I spoke to my cutler about this, and he pointed out a
problem. |
|
| |
Teaspoons are often used to measure dry ingredients (such
as sugar), in which case they are seldom filled level.
Consider two 5ml teaspoons, one with a deep, narrow bowl,
and the other with a wide, shallow one. When "heaped", the
former may carry 7ml of sugar, but the latter would carry
10ml. |
|
| |
At one time, the US (Federal) Bureau of Standards developed
a standard length for toothpicks. This idea is sensible by
comparison. |
|
| |
even if they did standardized toothpicks, toothpick rebels can find other sizes. [see link] |
|
| |