re: Another math thread: "In dog beers I've only had one" doesn't make sense

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Post the rest of that Wiktionary clip...

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I had my fingers crossed that neither of you asked me to do this

I mean it became obvious they are trolling at this point but the wiki link describes the term “dog years” exactly how it’s always been used/applied. The correct way...

Let me break it down for you dog years all the time, I can define phrases however I want types.

The purpose of "animal years" is to compare the relative lifespans of two animals. Agreed? You kind of have to.

Ok, so you're comparing a dog's life to a human's. You say your 7 year old dog is 49 dog years old, and you say your 49 year old arse is 7 dog years old. Dog years both ways, you do what you want.

Ok, now compare a dog's life to a cat's life. Still going with dog years both ways? Ok, they live about the same, so the 7 year old dog is 7 dog years old, and the 7 year old cat is 7 dog years old. You do what you want.

Now take the dog out, and let's compare a cat's life with a squirrel. Which animal do you choose to go both ways with? You have no logical way to answer this question, because you have insisted on defining "dog years" incorrectly.



The only way this whole exercise makes sense is to define "dog years" correctly and logically. Animal X is animal Y years old, and animal Y is animal X years old. A 7 year old dog is 49 human years old, and a 49 year old human is 7 dog years old.

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You say your 7 year old dog is 49 dog years old

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Yes.

You say this because a dog’s year as far as maturity goes(which is why this is a term and concept) lasts about 52 days long. If the dog was alive for 7 human years, it would be about 49 dog years old.

That is what the saying means and what it’s used for.

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and you say your 49 year old arse is 7 dog years old

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Nobody does this. Nobody is conceptualizing or comparing their age to a dog.

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Ok, now compare a dog's life to a cat's life. Still going with dog years both ways? Ok, they live about the same, so the 7 year old dog is 7 dog years old, and the 7 year old cat is 7 dog years old. You do what you want.

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Nobody does this. We don’t have a term for this.

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Now take the dog out, and let's compare a cat's life with a squirrel. Which animal do you choose to go both ways with? You have no logical way to answer this question, because you have insisted on defining "dog years" incorrectly.

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Nobody does this. We don’t have a term for this.

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I’m just saying your way isn’t how the term or concept is used.

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, you linked two definitions that say it is used both ways.

Of those two ways, only one makes any real sense.

It’s bothering me that you think your explanation of this is somehow above our heads. There is nothing difficult about it. I just don’t believe it’s how people use the terms.

Some people don’t think driveway and parkway make sense. But it doesn’t change that we have an agreed upon way of using them.

This thread has gone 9 pages, or 63 pages if it's a dog.

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This thread has gone 9 pages, or 63 pages if it's a dog.

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You motherfricker.

But that points out the stupidity of the alternative argument. A dog's life is 1/7th the lenthg of a human's - everything he does is scaled down to reflect that

If you have a 14 page thread, it's 2 pages for a dog.

If you frick 70 bitches, a dog would frick 10.

If you drink 7 beers, a dog would drink one.

Hey man, I was agreeing with you.

I used the same basis (pages). Think pages = human years.