That's some seriously old beer!

[u/XcOM987]

[u/Barkers_eggs]

Meanwhile here in Australia we're doing a casual 2.431km drive to go to a nice beach 2 states or provinces away.

[u/xelfer → u/Barkers_eggs]

That's only 2.4 minutes at 60km/h

[u/Beautiful-Willow5696 → u/xelfer]

There is something wrong in your math

[u/SatansFriendlyCat → u/Beautiful-Willow5696]

No, there's something wrong with the number formatting for an Australian.

Australia uses the English system of comma separators between units (hundreds, thousands, etc) and the full stop "." for the decimal (everything after the "." is less than a whole number, down to as many decimal places as you like.

The above commenter was making a joke with this in mind.

[u/Duros001 → u/Beautiful-Willow5696]

[Europe] vs [UK, US + a few more] number system;

For us it’s written as
2,431.0
but Europeans write is as
2.431,0

So showing “2.431” to an international audience can lead to a misunderstanding

I didn’t know Australians used the European system though

[u/xelfer → u/Duros001]

we don't, hence my comment as an Australian :)

[u/Nathan_Calebman → u/Duros001]

Sensible people (Scandinavians) write it as 2431,0. Way less confusion.

[u/universal_piglet → u/Nathan_Calebman]

Very big numbers are cumbersome to read without separators. Even the sensible scandis use spaces.

[u/Nathan_Calebman → u/universal_piglet]

Yup, but only from 10 000 and up.

[u/SmokingChips → u/universal_piglet]

Indians write as 12,12,123,12,12,123.00 and Chinese write as 1234,1234,1234.00

[u/Beautiful-Willow5696 → u/Nathan_Calebman]

We also do this in italy but tbh every person does it differently but this is the most common

[u/Duros001 → u/Nathan_Calebman]

Exactly, If I saw it written fully in Andy context there would be no confusion, no problem :)

[u/PolyUre → u/Duros001]

but Europeans write is as

2.431,0

Depends on the Europeans. International Bureau of Weights and Measures has a policy that "neither dots nor commas are ever inserted in the spaces between groups" and it's more common in Europe than putting dots between groups.

[u/Ok_Wear_1725 → u/Barkers_eggs]

Yes, I just had fun with street-view a few weeks back and came across one of those infamous street-signs where the nearest posted landmark already was 140 miles away, the farthest 1100.

And not a tourist spot, these were serious signs for locals!

I stared at it for quite a while.

Speaking as an inhabitant of a country where the top one loneliest place is just 6.3km from the nearest human settlement:

Australia is out of competition, I am afraid.
Rest of the world still playing two leagues below...

[u/Barkers_eggs → u/Ok_Wear_1725]

America is slightly larger than Australia but they have inland cities. We just have desert, camels and giant fucking roos. I've been out there though. It's absolutely beautiful if you enjoy dead silence and massive horizons

[u/BaysideWoman → u/Barkers_eggs]

And red earth. Mind you on the rare occasions that it rains, the wildflowers are amazing.

[u/worldspawn00 → u/Barkers_eggs]

Lol, yeah, my mother lives ~900 miles away from me, I drive it once or twice a year, 13 hours, doesn't seem too bad to me. I leave home at 8pm, get in around 9am. Overnight traffic is light, plus no sun in my eyes!

[u/theduck65 → u/Barkers_eggs]

I do 5 hrs of driving most weekends to get to and from my Australian beach house. I quite like it. A bag of chips, a sausage roll and some good tunes and I am all set

[u/Barkers_eggs → u/theduck65]

I also enjoy a good drive. Drove from Melbourne to Perth twice. Recently did Melbourne to Northern Flinders ranges. That was a spectacular 14 hour haunt spread over 2 days

[u/W2ttsy → u/Barkers_eggs]

Ah yes, the half way point between Melbourne and Cairns is Brisbane.

Or for those not familiar, the distance between the top bottom of the big pointy bit on the top right of the country is the same as the entire chunk below it.

[u/Barkers_eggs → u/W2ttsy]

Airlee beach, actually

[u/No-Size380 → u/Barkers_eggs]

the "." vs "," having different meanings in math in different countries makes this absolutely hilarious