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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @12:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @12:36PM (#179065)

    You know what mile the article was referring to, the standardized mile. Roman, Italian and Chinese miles along with just about every other mile are dead units.

    Of course there is the nautical mile which is standardized but it is never used for general measurement by anyone. Not once has anyone ever said "I live 5 miles from the nearest train station" follow by someone asking "nautical or regular?"

    Dont be a douche.

  • (Score: 2) by Geotti on Tuesday May 05 2015, @02:32PM

    by Geotti (1146) on Tuesday May 05 2015, @02:32PM (#179107) Journal

    Not once has anyone ever said "I live 5 miles from the nearest train station" follow by someone asking "nautical or regular?"

    That depends if that conversation happened on a boat somewhere in the open sea after months of adventures...

    Dont be a douche.

    I'm just following in the long tradition of nitpickers and nitpickeresses of such polls. Just imagine smiling irony tags hovering around my post, take it easy and you can become a pollpicker too. ;)