It should be obvious to anyone with a brain that 4 days involves 3 nights, why waste time and printing ink with silly extra words, I find it really annoying, but maybe I'm just finicky.
Another one who pisses me off is the narrator on some Discovery channel programmes who has to state measurements in metric and imperial units, such as "100 metres or 330 feet", are people really so stupid, did their education not involve these simple calculations in the syllabus?
2006-12-25 08:11:55 · 12 answers · asked by fed up with stupid questions 4 in Travel ➔ Other - Destinations
As far as I can see, four 24 hour periods can never include four complete nights,even if you start at midnight, four days later you will leave at midnight, 102 hours would involve four complete nights, but not 96!
2006-12-25 08:53:40 · update #1
Yes - it annoys me too. It's like they pretend they are offering you more than they really are - that is unless you spend the whole day in the room (in which case, why wouldn't you just stay home!). Saying "3 nights" would suffice completely.
What erks me even more is when they continue to write something like "Check-in 3 pm, check out 11am" which would mean at most it is 2 days, 3 nights, and 2 x 0.4 days. I actually think it should be 3 nights, 2 days if the checkout is early and the check-in late.
2006-12-25 23:56:02 · answer #1 · answered by Sanmigsean 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as for the 4 days/3 nights, some folks just might think that 4 days includes that 4 nights (24 hour days!).
As for metric, all of the major countries in the world use the metric system except for us. Back in the 60s there was an attempt to get Americans to change to metric, but it failed cuz even the teachers had to stop and convert all measurements. The metric system makes a lot more sense since everything is in increments of 10s, not the random feet, inches, ounces, etc. that we use.
2006-12-25 08:16:21 · answer #2 · answered by rivkadacat 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
While the logic you mention is odvious, most of the time they do this to reconfirm things.
Example: Hotel stay, 3 days, 2 nights. If it only said 3 days, a person might assume it includes 3 nights as nights are ending the days.
The problem is there are people who take an advantage of lack of information. Disclaimers were created for this reason. That's also why applications, agreements, etc are all so long and wordy.
So, just know the world's greediness caused it.
2006-12-25 08:21:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They say that in order to let you know that they are not talking about 4 24-hour periods (ie full days), which would naturally include 4 nights. So "4 days", could actually be 3 24-hour periods plus a couple of hours! They are simply covering themselves under the trade descriptions act.
2006-12-25 08:19:30 · answer #4 · answered by Martin 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do think the day/night thing is obvious, but it's probably some legal mumbo-jumbo.
However, I do not get my panties in a bunch over imperial/metric units because I do not use metric measurements every day.
2006-12-25 08:37:36 · answer #5 · answered by ahorn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are far more important things to get bothered about. Lets say babies being raped in Africa because men think they can get rid of there HIV by doing this. Have break have a KIT KAT
2006-12-25 08:27:16 · answer #6 · answered by Future boy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Bit like 'London, England' Where else would it be?
2006-12-25 18:16:10 · answer #7 · answered by lulu 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it must be stupid.
but some people are naturally blonde like me
2006-12-25 08:13:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, your not finicky, it pisses me off aswell!
2006-12-25 08:13:52 · answer #9 · answered by Jane H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you really need to chill out dude
2006-12-25 08:14:20 · answer #10 · answered by AJ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋