K's.. K what?

dubscottie

Is it just me or am I the only one that get pissed off with the "I ran 5k"

You ran what. 5k… is that 5kg or you ran from a 5Kt nuclear bomb..

"I dropped 5k today" What?? Did you take a 5kg ****?

Its Km, Kg etc so use it!

D Trent

dubscottie wrote: »

Is it just me or am I the only one that get pissed off with the "I ran 5k"

You ran what.. 5kg or you ran from a 5KT nuclear bomb..

"I dropped 5k today" What?? Did you take a 5kg ****?

Its Km, Kg etc so use it!

You'll be doin well if this thread gets 5k views

caustic 1

Just you.

Insect Overlord

Your thread is bad, and you should feel bad.

bnt

It's just you. Running means distance, so it's kilometres.

If you were lifting weights, then you could rightly ask whether it was kilograms or kilonewtons. "I lifted 500k last week" - which makes sense if you mean 500 kilonewtons (just over 50kg in Earth's gravity).

dubscottie

An File wrote: »

Your thread is bad, and you should feel bad.

Nah.. Just have to be accurate with stuff and the "K" bits takes time when and lots of questions!

Lucifer MorningStar

I lost 5K in the bookies once.

Insect Overlord

dubscottie wrote: »

Nah.. Just have to be accurate with stuff and the "K" bits takes time when and lots of questions!

K. x

dubscottie

bnt wrote: »

It's just you. Running means distance, so it's kilometres.

If you were lifting weights, then you could rightly ask whether it was kilograms or kilonewtons. "I lifted 500k last week" - which makes sense if you mean 500 kilonewtons (just over 50kg in Earth's gravity).

Why don't you say that then? It is not rocket science. :roll eyes: Say that..

So when I have to do my job, I don't need to ask what K you are using!

Peregrine

dubscottie wrote: »

"I dropped 5k today" What?? Did you take a 5kg ****?

They dropped 5 Kelvin, obviously.

Wacker The Attacker

FacKKKKKKKKKKKKK off

dubscottie

Just done 5K to the wheelie bin from me front door.

About 5,000 cm

Czarcasm

dubscottie wrote: »

Nah.. Just have to be accurate with stuff and the "K" bits takes time when and lots of questions!

Could you be more accurate about what stuff you like to be accurate about?

For accuracy sake, just so I have an accurate idea of that which you are referring to rather than just "stuff".

dubscottie

bnt wrote: »

It's just you. Running means distance, so it's kilometres.

If you were lifting weights, then you could rightly ask whether it was kilograms or kilonewtons. "I lifted 500k last week" - which makes sense if you mean 500 kilonewtons (just over 50kg in Earth's gravity).

I do a job that involves "work" so don't need to visit a gym, hence the reason why all this K bollox means nothing to me.

And no "I don't lift bro"

dubscottie

Czarcasm wrote: »

Could you be more accurate about what stuff you like to be accurate about?

For accuracy sake, just so I have an accurate idea of that which you are referring to rather than just "stuff".

Like I said in the OP..

Be more accurate.. I am off to finish my 5.68k bottle of wine..

Czarcasm

dubscottie wrote: »

I do a job that involves "work" so don't need to visit a gym, hence the reason why all this K bollox means nothing to me.

And no "I don't lift bro"

Do you eat Special K for breakfast?

I used enjoy special k, but after spending a couple of g's on it, that's y I had to stop u c.

Legs.Eleven

dubscottie wrote: »

I do a job that involves "work" so don't need to visit a gym, hence the reason why all this K bollox means nothing to me.

And no "I don't lift bro"

Why did you put work in exclamation marks? Is it not really work at all?

Tail Docker

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Why did you put work in exclamation marks? Is it not really work at all?

Highlighting the rarity, i'd guess. I know how he feels.

Noccy_Mondy

Ahh come on, obviously you have to put things into perspective with whatever situation they're in. Like you didn't run 5 kg, it makes no sense, obviously it's supposed to mean kilometers!?

dubscottie

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Ahh come on, obviously you have to put things into perspective with whatever situation they're in. Like you didn't run 5 kg, it makes no sense, obviously it's supposed to mean kilometers!?

So why can people say that? Looks to me like its a way of making up for small bits downstairs..

If its weight its Kg
Distance its Km
Bombs its Kt

Add the bits and stop being pretentious gob****es..

Noccy_Mondy

Here look, if that's all that bothers you in life, then you haven't got it too hard!

whirlpool

dubscottie wrote: »

Is it just me or am I the only one that get pissed off with the "I ran 5k"

You ran what. 5k… is that 5kg or you ran from a 5Kt nuclear bomb..

"I dropped 5k today" What?? Did you take a 5kg ****?

Its Km, Kg etc so use it!

I thought your post was gonna be giving out about people who think they're great for running 5k. And I was gonna agree. People boasting about running 5k left right and centre these days. My 3 year old niece runs 5k to the bleedin playground! (5km that is.)

the_syco

dubscottie wrote: »

"I dropped 5k today"

I generally see "5k" as an amount of money.

tallaghtmick

Czarcasm wrote: »

Do you eat Special K for breakfast?

I used enjoy special k, but after spending a couple of g's on it, that's y I had to stop u c.

Came here to post a special K joke but you got here 1st.....ye kock :pac:

Mr. CooL ICE

And what's the deal with airplane food anyway?

Czarcasm

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Came here to post a special K joke but you got here 1st.....ye kock :pac:

LOL

Or, as they say in Portuguese and Korean -


kkk

Also popular is "kkk" (which can also be repeated indefinitely), due to the pronunciation of the letter k in Portuguese sounding similar to the ca in card, and therefore representing the laugh

ㅋㅋㅋ ("kkk") and ㅎㅎㅎ ("hhh") are usually used to indicate laughter in Korean.

Source: LOL - Wikipedia

Snake

dubscottie wrote: »

So why can people say that? Looks to me like its a way of making up for small bits downstairs..

Now you're just being ridiculous

whirlpool

dubscottie wrote: »

So why can people say that? Looks to me like its a way of making up for small bits downstairs..

If its weight its Kg
Distance its Km
Bombs its Kt

Add the bits and stop being pretentious gob****es..

Ah here! What are you ****in' on about! Nobody leaves out the second letter because they have a small penis or out of pretentiousness!

Saying 5k instead of 5kg / 5km is perfectly acceptable because it's assumed you have a brain and can figure what's meant by it given the context!

Insect Overlord

There are two kinds of people in the world - those who can extrapolate from incomplete data...

AlwaysAnyTime

LordChessington wrote: »

And what's the deal with airplane food anyway?

Yeah.

And what's the deal with internal bleeding, if it's internal then it's not really bleeding.. Right?!

Lapin

dubscottie wrote: »

Is it just me or am I the only one that get pissed off with the "I ran 5k"

You ran what. 5k… is that 5kg or you ran from a 5Kt nuclear bomb..

"I dropped 5k today" What?? Did you take a 5kg ****?

Its Km, Kg etc so use it!

Enough OP.

Adyx

dubscottie wrote: »

Is it just me or am I the only one that get pissed off with the "I ran 5k"

You ran what. 5k… is that 5kg or you ran from a 5Kt nuclear bomb..

"I dropped 5k today" What?? Did you take a 5kg ****?

Its Km, Kg etc so use it!

dubscottie wrote: »

So why can people say that? Looks to me like its a way of making up for small bits downstairs..

If its weight its Kg
Distance its Km
Bombs its Kt

Add the bits and stop being pretentious gob****es..

Actually you're completely wrong. It's km, kg etc. Also kg is the unit of mass not weight.

Frank Lee Midere

dubscottie wrote: »

I do a job that involves "work" so don't need to visit a gym, hence the reason why all this K bollox means nothing to me.

And no "I don't lift bro"

So your job is to ask people how far they've run and when they say something in k, you can't tell if its kilometres or kilo newtons or kilograms ?

It's an easy job but someone's got to do it.

Frank Lee Midere

"Adyx wrote:

Also kg is the unit of mass not weight.

Ah heyor, we're not on the moon. It's the same.

crybaby

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it's just you OP.

I haven't heard of anyone running 5kg have you?

Arthur Beesley

dubscottie wrote: »

Like I said in the OP..

Be more accurate.. I am off to finish my 5.68k bottle of wine..

White wine? Red wine? Be a bit more specific please.

FreshKnickers

Why even bother with the 'k' at all, sure? "I ran 5 on Friday and it only took me 10. I had on me new runners, they're great and only cost me 12. I probably lost about 3 with that run. I can have a 38 at the weekend now. Lovely."

d.pop

If you were lifting weights, then you could rightly ask whether it was kilograms or kilonewtons. "I lifted 500k last week" - which makes sense if you mean 500 kilonewtons (just over 50kg in Earth's gravity)

Afaik 50kN is over 50,000kg. That's some serious lifting....

Thespoofer

No more K's, OK ?

FreshKnickers

Thespoofer wrote: »

No more K's, OK ?

Oh?

NipNip

It's certainly just yerself.

That said, I used to see a lot of threads entitled C25k. I felt inadequate. I could only run 10k. I presumed it meant 'circa 25km'. I used to hate those people.

I'm lacking in a lot downstairs though - so you could have a point.

Little CuChulainn

This thread was a waste of 5s of my life.

mutley18

What is your thoughts on Special K cereal OP?

bnt

If I suspect there's any ambiguity, then I'll try to avoid it up front. I just think the OP chose a bad example: when someone talks about running 5k, there's no ambiguity about what is meant by that.

kthx

MRnotlob606

hey guyys

pajor

"Who controls the British crown, who keeps the metric system down? We doo.. we doo.."

kneemos

People and companies who describe their wages in K(30k or 45k for example) is the only slightly annoying use of the "K".
Or maybe now that I think of it people who give distances in K when giving directions.Otherwise lash on.

NipNip

kneemos wrote: »

People and companies who describe their wages in K(30k or 45k for example) is the only slightly annoying use of the "K".
Or maybe now that I think of it people who give distances in K when giving directions.Otherwise lash on.

k is widely accepted to denote 'thousand'.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I drove 50 clicks today.

Lisha

Context is everything.
Being able to use your imagination is a bonus.