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Did the narrator just say "hats can be hired these days?" In America one can only hire people.

What a nice escape from the habitual doom scrolling in TH-cam these days. No product placements, no AI hype, no adverts…an actual normal human being!

I am glad I can point on those touch screens (like them or not) with my right hand.

What's confusing me a good deal more in every day life is the months after August all having the wrong names.

My Good Sir, You ?inadvertently omitted the farmers’, or carpenters’ or house painters’ jeans or dungarees with their built-in bibs and likewise built-in suspenders. My Dad was s house painter and he wore the obligatory white or cream-coloured jeans. The tell-tale mark of the “carpenter’s’ jeans was the cloth loop on the left hip area into which one would slip the handle of the law-hammer. These bib jeans = bib dungarees have all buf disappeared along with the tell-tale white cap with its white brim of the housepainter’s cap! Of course the house painter’s cap was a necessity to keep the paint off and out of one’s hair. By the way the painter never actually purchased said cap as they were given away gratis by the shop of the paint seller; along with the one inch high black lettering of the paint store or paint company who provided the caps gratis cum advertising! And anyone over the age of sixty-six years of age here stateside can remember the medium to dark grey one-piece “jumpsuit” of the gas-station attendant! (car grease is grey: hence the grey jump suit!) often those fas station jump suits sported pinstripes! And then there was the ubiquitous flat-top greg cloth gas station man’s cap with its brim like the painter’s hat as it was like a flat top baseball cap. Of course the front of the cap sported the gas stations colourful logo as also did the left chest area on the grey pinstriped one piece zippered jump suit! But wait! There’s more! Who can forget the 1940’s to late 1960’s white soda jerk cap. I thought it rather “cute” that the second generation 65 year old gentlemen who served ice cream, cocoa or ice-cream sodas or “egg-creams” wood wear these goofy white caps behind the ice-cream parlour/hamburger joint on Fordham Road almost at the corner of Webster Avenue in the Rose Hill Section of Da Bronx where I spent three years majoring in undergraduate pre-med & languages at Fordham University. As I aspired to be what was to become the last-minute Third World medical missionary, studying my Honors Program Junior Year Abroad at St Xaviers College in Dhobi Talao, Bombay (to field test out my vocation) I am took a fashion to date to wear the white linen “Gandhi topi (which looked very much like a soda jerk cap) along with the long white overshirt called a Kameese or Kurta which went along with the baggy snow white cotton/line pants appropriately called “pyjamas”! [That is where thd English word pyjama originated!] You might recognise that white topi cap from some old photos of Prime Minister J. Nehru! And of course Mahatma Gandhi! Throughout high school 1961-65 then University 1965-67 & 68-69 I always dressed for success with three piece suits and a fedora. I was really making a fashion statement for Fedoras were already on their way put. I literally took the Passaic, New Jersey’s Jewish tailor’s advice to “dress for success.” My almost peasant Father luckily likewise encouraged this high sartorial approach. By the way - it worked! In addition to my B.A. degree I also earned my MPH&TM in Tropical Medicine, from Tulane, my M.D. from Georgetown, and a second master’s degree in Byzantine Theology from Maryknoll/ Fordham. Not bad for a farm boy, newspaper carrier and second shift commercial truck unloader during all four years of high school. Someday I will tell you about wearing a baggy blue Mao Jacket and its accompanying cloth cap during my three month visit yo the Peoples Republic of China during the months of June to August 1975 (including Tien An Mein Square.) Only months following the disastrous Vietnamese War. I accompanied my Canton China born Chinese-American young bride to visit “our” Paw-Paw in Hoi-San Kwantung China who was 94 years’ old at the time. Typical American tourist - NOT. I need my own TH-cam site! Thank you my Good Man for your lovely video on the extinction of hats you are right, people did make a fuss about JFK being hatless And yes, although I am 77 years old, I can personally vouch for not being able to wear a Fedora in a car! I really do miss wearing my hat!

Knight pronounced that way sounds a lot like German "Knecht". Meaning servant or farmhand, but it was also used in different contexts. A possible connection might be Landsknecht ("country's servant"), a type of mercenary in the 16th/17th century. Way too recent i suppose, but I'd be surprised if there is no connection anywhere between knight and Knecht

Metricity is sooooo nice

The actual core of the problem is linguistic: the language is decimal, so people naturally find it easier to think in decimal, even if it limits the available easy calculations; it means that you're _not_ having to do non-trivial mental arithmetic as you move up and down throughe units, as that information is encoded in the base of the number system. If we wanted to make the most of divisibility, we should change the base of our number system to a _superior highly composite number_ (to employ a bit of maths jargon), obviating the need for mental arithmetic when moving between units of a particular measure and the numbers we're used to dealing with every day. Of course, this is very unlikely to ever happen; the fundamental components of a language are the most resistant to change, as people use them all the time and it would take a lot of un-learning and re-learning to alter them. I think that's why most of the few remaining irregular plurals in English (notwithstanding later loanwords which retained their foreign plural) are things that would come up frequently in everyday speech: people, (wo)men, children, sheep, oxen, geese, fish, feet, teeth. And if decimalization was expensive, one can only imagine what it would cost to change the number system. It would probably bankrupt the country. And even if it succeeded, unless the whole world follows suit, you've just moved the conversion headaches elsewhere (and multiplied them to an astronomical degree). So it's completely impractical, but if it _were_ possible to somehow magically intervene, the best solution would be to adopt a numerical base of 12 or - at a push - 60 (the other options are probably either too small to be useful, or too large to be manageable).

So in a base 12 we can divide without a remainder by two more numbers. So what? We will also have to use two more digits. Besides, counting fingers is more natural than counting knuckles.

Ok that actually makes a lot of sense. This leads me to an obvious next question... Why are there 360 degrees in a circle? I know they just about have to be related given we originally based time on the behavior of the sky [earth]... but it is peculiar as it would seem to be based on 36, a clean multiple of 12... but not 24... 360 is divisible by 24, giving a clean 15 degrees but we're out in the weeds here... More "legacy shenanigans"? I'd watch a video on it... 🤣

you can count to 1024 with two hands if you use binary btw. (and to 1.048.576 if you also use your feet). what i want to say is: different systems are good for different tasks. 12/24/60 is great for time related things. 360 is great for circles and navigations 10 is great for counting, distances and volumes 2 and 16 are great for computer science just imperial measurements are crap in everything.

Australia went metric and decimal isefin five years. We didn’t whinge or complain about it, but it was the best thing we ever did.

Is it though? I understand the logic of having more options for division, but the true is that in most situations the decimal system would give you a simpler time to work on and a simple numbers, even when working decimals, rather than just having more composite and using having a few more options that would expeceficially be useful in certain situations. That is to say, if you don't have a proper composite to work with with the base 12 or base 60, then you are in more problems than with the base 10. Also, in multiplication and measurement, the the system would work much better: Personally, I like base 10. Then again, who know what I would think if I had grown with a better system, whatever shape that might take.

Do you multiply more or do you divide more? ;) Base 10 is better at going up

There is alot to be said about the "best base". I have seen decent arguments that 60, 12, 6, 4, 3, 2, -2, and -1-i are all better bases to count in than 10. Paradoxically the large highly composite bases are great at representing fractions and the small low radix bases are better at efficiently representing large numbers. Now we can get away with just writing in bases ten for some systems that actually represent other bases like currency and time, especially when the other base is close to or a multiple of 10, 12 and 60. There are alot of issues with the metric system, that is stemming from the fact that it is created by the same people that brought you the french revolution. It is really just whatever those egotists thought was best and not a system that had evolved over millennium. It isn't even very good for modern science, it isn't as good as the alternative for human usage, the fact that it is still around is a testament to european hardheadedness.

The 360 degree circle convention comes from the Babylonian sexagesimal system as well and is highly composite.

But all you smarty pants learned counting and math in school didn't you? In what base? And for how many hundreds of ages? Instead of using only 1 base you used dozenal decimal 20-nal 60-nal and i don't know what other nals. And now Europe is the culprit.

It's interesting that time is mostly scaled in multiples of a hundred, just like money. 100 milliseconds in a second, 100 microseconds in a millisecond, 100 nanoseconds in a microsecond, etc.

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Because it's stupid

Really good video I had always wondered myself without realising!!

Volume is way too low.

I'd add that time, unlike the other measurements, is based on more celestial and seasonal standards rather than what is conveniently near, like our arms, fingers, or counting stones. A solar day is still better divided into 12 hours, especially based on solar position. By virtue, using a circle for time divides well into degrees (360°) over using radians (2π) or gradians (400), but you still "could" use a different unit of measurement for time. Nowadays, the second is standardized based on the resonance of cesium-133, and since Jan 1, 1970, UNIX has been counting seconds for the use of computers worldwide.

i love to wear hats, but I don't like to wear them if i am having a good hair day.

Why is the week seven days?

Born in 1948, I’ve worn a hat most of my life. Much of that time it was a Stestson style cowboy hat. Living in the Houston area later for about 40 years, I bought my hats for most of that time at Shudde Brothers, a hattery that had been in business over 100 years, making all styles of hats. I moved overseas to work for about 15 years, and the “cowboy” hat was not a good choice, so I wore a fedora. I still wear a cowboy hat, mixed with a baseball cap. I don’t go out without a hat😂

I still wear one!

Base 12 in math would be much better for teaching imho

Dividing by 3 had always made me uncomfortable for some reason. Now I understand why, and why I found the time division of 3 much easier.

Didn't the Soviets try to implement a new "week" for their calendar?

Warmbru, I love you man! Your videos are the best. What’s your back story?

The French, it's always the French! VLLC (Milei). Thank you for the video!

Thank you for this. Love this pace and thought. I agree I can't take "historical" films because they are often full of liberties being taken from, not just clothing, but race, gender, dietary habits, even what would be in the mind of certain characters. This is due to the arrogance of filmmakers who must impulsively project themselves into their films.

Some time guides are metrisised, if that is even a word, where an hour is divided into a hundred. So a time of 1.5 hours would be an hour and a half.

The french made 10 hour watches, but did'nt succeed.

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Interesting video! Lots of points I've never considered before

It really isnt that big a deal. BC and AD just arent as understood and BCE and CE. Odd hill to die on. Its easier for people to understand (especially when translated to non english speaking countries) compared to AD which is latin.

Perhaphs, because people started bathing and frequently washing their heads, since shampoo invention?

I wear my Mario / Mao cap every day.

As a young man in my Hoodies To my observation hats previously apart from providing protection and comfort were a fashion and lifestyle statment meanwhile nowadays people are more comfort focused and thats the reason why we Have Hoodies more popular than hats

I am an avid hat wearer. I have a reasonable decent collection. I do realize have such liberty to wear hats so often is because I wear a cleanly saved head. So there is little concern about interference from hair do’s. I usually wear large brim hats which seem to garner many unsolicited, but deeply appreciated compliments. I rarely wear the “ baseball cap”. As a bald man I believe it’s a blessing from the creator and my fashion forward responsibility to wear hats…Thank you…(bowing and removing my hat as I exit)…😁

I hate cops hats!

I blame that Safety Dance bunch from back in the 80s.

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Can't wear a pony tail under a hat, deh?

Make hats great agian

Yes rails are standardised, no they are not everywhere the same and rails are not the only thing to look at. The track format is just the beginning of the mesurments. the clearance dimensions are made to guaranty that the train fits every part of the net, like platforms signal bridges aso. These clearance dimensions come in Europ in 2 flavors one for the national net and one that fits for all nations in Europe. In Europe Spain and Russia have other formats for their tracks so you need to change the axes. A eurocity train has to have modified signal equipment because the signals can be on the right or the left side of the tracks and signals are not simply lamps they come with safty mesures. Before these euro trains the engine needed to be changed at the border. If you wonder why this has not be standardised from the beginning, there was a time when trains were essential to move soldiers and equipment. You don´t want to give an enemy the chance to reach your capital in one go.