Signed.
To be honest, I hadn't noticed, but this kind of sloppiness shouldn't be tolerated.
Footie ballsup: Petition kicks off to fix 'geometrically impossible' street signs
A petition has been launched to update the UK Traffic Signs Regulations to include a geometrically correct football. The ball shown on UK street signs to denote football grounds is made up entirely of hexagons. And if you care about your geometry, you'll know it's mathematically impossible to construct a ball using only …
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Tuesday 10th October 2017 15:28 GMT Arthur the cat
Re: Mathematically impossible...
Actually the sign is correct.
Amber Rudd is talking to football manufacturers right now. She's quoted as saying "I don't see why they can't make footballs out of nothing but hexagons, it seems perfectly simple to me. If they don't comply, the government will consider legislation to make them comply."
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Wednesday 11th October 2017 04:23 GMT PNGuinn
Or maybe the shadow of a 4 dimensional football?
The country cannot afford both this and the Prime Sinister.
Reality will explode. Boris will become Prime Dexter. The world as we know it will end on thursday ....
Just mandate that the ugly game be played with 2 dimensional balls. Or street signs.
>> Or one of these.
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Tuesday 10th October 2017 21:33 GMT _Seb
Re: Signed.
I mean everyone is absolutely missing that it is correct, just not in Euclidian space, I mean you could teach about this interesting geometry (first made using crochet was the positive curvature space) which seems to be this chaps point, clearly doesn't understand enough about geometry.
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Tuesday 10th October 2017 12:51 GMT Throatwarbler Mangrove
You know you have too much time on your hands when . . .
Also, just because he isn't following "a Lovecraftian monster from beyond our perception" doesn't mean nobody is. The Elder Gods just haven't blessed him with The Sight. For that matter, he obviously isn't aware of the hidden symbolism of the hexagonal football--but wait, I've said too much. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Ia! Ia!
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Wednesday 11th October 2017 04:33 GMT PNGuinn
Re: 22 overpaid tosspots chasing a pigskin round a field.
"I didn't think that were that many members of the Bullingdon Club left in the Cabinet."
Bbbut - imagine that they where chasing our great leader round the pitch, with the intention of administrating a long and effective subtle re education ....
THAT would be a match worth watching in all its gory.
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Tuesday 10th October 2017 20:44 GMT Doctor Syntax
Re: You know you have too much time on your hands when . . .
"overpaid tosspots chasing a pigskin round a field."
The perpetrators of the petition want a word. They want to tell you the field isn't round.
Personally I think the sign should be changed to an image of an inflated porcine bladder in the interests of historical accuracy.
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Tuesday 10th October 2017 14:29 GMT John Savard
Re: You know you have too much time on your hands when . . .
Clearly, it's appropriate that the sign should contain a stylized representation of a soccer ball, rather than a realistic drawing with curvature and shading to give an appearance of depth.
So a circular window into the flat tessellation of alternate-colored hexagons that is analogous to the surface of a spherical soccer ball is one simple way to achieve that.
Of course, usually curved lines would be used in a stylized representation of the pre-Eigil Nielsen style of soccer ball, just as they are in stylized representations of baseballs or basketballs.
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Tuesday 10th October 2017 13:11 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Metric please
Why is the mile the stupid measurement? Imperial measurements are based on human perceptions of distance. A mile is 8 furlongs, and a furlong is the furrow length of an field of one acre.
No more stupid than the metre being one ten millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator.
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Tuesday 10th October 2017 13:34 GMT RustyNailed
Re: Metric please
By a somewhat lovely coincidence, the best answer to this question (IMO) is also provided by Matt Parker (yes the same one of the petition in the original article), via a video on Youtube:
Are Imperial Measurements outdated? | Number Hub with Matt Parker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk
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Tuesday 10th October 2017 14:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Metric please... WTF, who cares
Perfect shape.... 2 metric units...? Just leave it alone!
Why not just drop both of those marks and have it say "Stadium -->". Granted, the pictorial of a human smaller than a ball would have to be dropped from the far left. However, I see no issue with that from the poltically correct non-humans that will be seeing the sign.
Or... spend millions and make nothing into an insightful nothing (a government classic)
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Tuesday 10th October 2017 15:50 GMT Primus Secundus Tertius
Re: Metric please
@Flatpackhamster
The mile is an excellent base unit. In this modern world, it should be divided into 65536 new inches, as opposed to 63,360 old inches. Then a new foot is 16 new inches, and a new rod/pole/perch is 16 new feet. A furlong is one eighth of a mile (512 new feet), and a cricket pitch is one tenth of a furlong at 51.2 new feet.
What could be simpler?
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Tuesday 10th October 2017 16:04 GMT Loyal Commenter
Re: Metric please
@Primus Secundundus Tertius (are you related to J R-M?)
Of course, the representations should be 0x10000 inches to a mile, a foot is 0x10 inches, rod/pole/perch is 0x10 feet, furlong 0x200 feet etc. Then you can have the beautiful confusion between hexadecimal and decimal number systems in schools, so we can easily separate our future developers from users.
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Tuesday 10th October 2017 20:55 GMT Not also known as SC
Re: please
@Steve Davies 3
Don't forget the bi-annual clock changing welly wangling that we go through
Don't worry - we have the Independent to help us tell if our phones have updated correctly with advice like
The clocks went back overnight. But did your clocks go back?
In the age of smartphones, smart TVs and smart home appliances, changing the clocks is at once much easier but more stressful. Almost everything adjusts automatically – but how can you be sure that it has?
The easiest way to know whether everything has updated is to check it against something authoritative, like the TV news.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/what-time-is-it-how-to-check-your-iphone-lose-an-hour-a7387306.html
and virtually the very same article about clocks going forward but this time published 10th March 2017, two weeks early ... The clocks went forward overnight. But did your clocks go forward?"
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/what-time-is-it-how-to-check-if-your-iphone-or-android-updated-for-the-clocks-going-forward-a6954831.html
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