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The NATO alphabet comes in handy sometimes
Multiplication table.... One day I'll get those 7s and 8s.
(I'm 40).
U know what you've done
Why the 7s and 8s? Right? Like that's the two that people struggle with.
It's Strange.
How to do almost anything by hand, and the phonetic alphabet (specifically nato phonetic alphabet) can be useful for misunderstandings. I want to learn shavian, an alphabet optimized for english, just for fun.
Have a great day, be kind, and have fun! :D
The standardized NATO phonetic alphabet
...for when you need to read alpha numeric codes or clarify spellings.
Especially with, how, inexplicably, phone connections seem to have gotten more garbly in recent years.
This code was invented to be reasonably understood as much as possible in less-than-ideal communication conditions.
As time goes on, civilian life is full of situations where you'll need to read off serial numbers, codes, or even spelling your own name, to somebody seemingly connected to you from a million miles away via coconuts and twine.
So, learn it, and you never need to go "M as in...uh...'Mancy'?" ever again! Your IT department might thank you.
...and let's be honest, it sounds kinda cool. :)
I agree that this has been very useful for me. Initially taught it to myself when I was working in IT, and it has come in handy a lot.
First names still haven't let me down to this date, and I've done phone work in the past.
More garbly? That's those hosers using built in laptop microphones or speakerphones. Terrible.
Oh definitely! If there's one thing I'm done with, it's people calling on speakerphone while their phone is like, seemingly, in their gym bag in the trunk LOL.
Like bro, you're not Jack Bauer and I'm not your handler, it can wait until you're done going 75 on the freeway.
Maybe my work's phone network service is just awful, even landline to landline, but yeah, for how much faster data connections have gotten, I feel like I got clearer voice quality on my cordless Vtech in 2004 LOL.
Maybe it's me and I should get my hearing checked. 😅
Your state's mental hygiene/commitment laws and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities treaty that U.S.A. is the only country not to ratify.
Fa Do Sol Ré La Mi Si
(F....C....G....D...A...E...B)
this is the order in which sharps go. Gives you the tonality of a given song. Let's say the song takes 4 sharps- take the last one (Ré/D), add a half-tone to it (Mi/E), there it is, your song is in E major
It works with flats as well, in the reverse order (Si Mi La Ré Sol Do Fa). Take the next-to-last flat, that is your tonality.
That's cool!
I don't understand any of it. (ELI5 please? Thanks for sharing this anyway!)
^Have^ ^a^ ^great^ ^day,^ ^be^ ^kind,^ ^and^ ^thanks^ ^for^ ^sharing!^ ^:D^
It's helpful if given a partition (with sharps or flats duly noted in the key signature), of which you want to quickly know the key -thus the tonic chord, usually the one any given song begins and ends with... broadly speaking. With this mnemonic you can immediately tell what the key is and start playing. Of course most people who play an instrument have developed their ear so that they can find the key of most songs they hear intuitively/empirically, the trick is useful with a partition only.
Your wife's birthday?
Pretty much how to do any task without electricity or a device that depends on it. It can be really useful to know how people did every day stuff 200 years ago.
Do you know how to do your laundry without a machine? Use a map? Send mail via post?
I actually know how to do all of those
Have a great day and be kind! :D
The first 100 digits of pi lol. On a more serious note, it is very useful to remember how you should react to certain comments you know others will make in the future.
Can you talk more about that last part
My credit card number and associated details.
Nah thats what password managers and physical custody of the cards are for
It came in handy when paying for parking today.
You didnt have your phone or the physical card on you? If not I agree, if you did its seems little redundant, huh? Never gonna recommend ignorance over knowing for the most part, I just dont think it outweighs the fact you pretty much need to use a password manager anyway so why not batch everything in that way, where do you draw the lines?
well, give it then
7569... Wait a minute!
If you cook, bake, brew, anything with food and drink.
Common volume conversions: 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon, 4 tablespoons/2 fluid ounces in a quarter cup, 8 fluid ounces in a cup, 2 cups in a pint, 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon.
Common weight conversions: 28 grams in an ounce, 16 ounces in a pound, 2 pounds and 3(ish) ounces in a kilo.
And common volume to weight conversions based on ingredients you use. For me: 200 grams in a cup of sugar, 125 grams in a cup of AP flour, 6 grams in a tablespoon of cocoa powder.
Makes it a lot easier to halve/double recipes, or use a scale for a volume written recipe.
What a headache, as a non-American just reading this makes my frontal lobe hurt.
Not my choice for sure, but since I have to live in it, committing it to memory seemed worth it.
Thank you but as the solar system as my witness that is such an absolutely terrible way to keep track of quantities
How to convert various units of measurement. (Including between imperial and metric.)
2.54 centimeters in an inch. Degrees Fahrenheit is nine fifths of degrees Celsius plus 32. Stuff like that.
Phone numbers of your life partner, parents, children, siblings and a lawyer.
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