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Started by b5blue, May 05, 2024, 01:13:58 PM

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b5blue

  Recently I've had a few examples of people mixing distance with time like, "I live an hour and a half to the north." so WTF could that mean? The variables stack to the point of a useless reference to me.  :scratchchin:   

Nacho-RT74

If you meet the speeds limitation, that makes a constant so the time is easier to relate on our minds how far is anything than the distance itself.

BTW, there is a joke of a finland comediant about that LOL (he calls ISMO)

Will search and post
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Nacho-RT74

Here is LOL



BTW in Venezuela and also here in Spain distance is told by time LOL
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b5blue


John_Kunkel

Quote from: Nacho-RT74 on May 05, 2024, 03:11:01 PMIf you meet the speeds limitation, that makes a constant so the time is easier to relate on our minds how far is anything than the distance itself.

Might be easier to understand for some who have no concept of distance but do of time. Also might be regional. Kinda like "it's twelve thirty" as opposed to "its half passed twelve".
Pardon me but my karma just ran over your dogma.

Nacho-RT74

That's what I meant... in general the time concept is a daily deal for everyone, but not the distance.

On cities you can also tipically measures distance by blocks or streets for the same reason.
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70 sublime

Some times saying the airport is 2 hours away is better than saying 60 miles.
60 miles makes me think it will take an hour to get there but if the traffic sucks between here and there it can take 2 hours.
We live outside the city here and it used to take an hour to get to airport.
Um no more. That is truly a fantasy to get that far in an hour unless it is 3:00 in the morning but now that summer road work has started that will not always work either.
next project 70 Charger FJ5 green

armor64

I've always had that growing up in Northern Ontario, Canada. Everything is far away, and sometimes the roads were so terrible you couldn't go a reliable speed like 80, so distance was useless. now living in southern Ontario, explaining going from, say, Toronto to Ottawa, its not 450km away, its still 5ish hours. Next town over? 15mins. Where were you from again? 10 hours northwest of North Bay.

b5blue

Thanks, it's a peek into others thought process. :scratchchin:

Old Moparz

I'm from NYC & lived there & the surrounding area where miles means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Perfect example is when my wife had her apartment in Saddlebrook, NJ & worked 6 miles away in River Edge, NJ. Both towns were very close to NYC. That 6 mile drive took 40 minutes. When we bought our house upstate in Newburgh, NY the house was 36 miles from my office in Mahwah, NJ. That drive took me 35 minutes.  :lol:
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