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There is an ISO standard...for Tea.
As in cups of tea.
ISO 3103:1980[^]
How do I know this? XKCD What If?[^]
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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We need an artist PRONTO!
0. Drawing of cup and saucer, kettle, and teapot [tea cosy optional]
1. Add caption "I'm IS0 3103 compliant, are you?"
2. Profit!
speramus in juniperus
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T-Shirts...
Mugs...
Biscuits...
Ah, the merchandising, the merchandising... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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speramus in juniperus
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As Long as Germany exists there has to be a Standard for everything
Because we can 
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modified 15-Jan-14 7:51am.
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ISO - International Organization for Standardization It's international..
...wait, I see the acronym is out of order, must be American. 
[Edit] Added joke icon.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
modified 15-Jan-14 8:45am.
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wahh sorry  , i messed it up america was popular for the usermanuals
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Sorry to be such a nerd, according to ISO[^] it is Quote: ISO Our name
Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek isos, meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, the short form of our name is always ISO.
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You are a nerd. I guess I forgot the joke icon. 
Maybe it's because Apple won't let them use iOS.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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TIL it isn't "[the] International Standards Organisation", which IU'd assumed it was. Normally I'd assume this is the fault of the French, who ,depsite only one worthwhile country having native speakers (additionaly France also) insist that everything international uses French. Not so! In French it would be OIN.
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Nope, if it had been american it would have been called the "World Standardization Organization" - Compare with all those sports that are only played there.
With the word "International" it's probably French. Which also would explain why the acronym is out of order.
Atleast we know it's not German, then it would have a D for Deutsch in the acronym, and an I for industry. They certainly wouldn't use an international standard. The fact that an international standard would be identical with a subset of theirs is totally besides the point.
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Well as far as i know we work with the DIN,EN and ISO here in Germany
DIN -> German
EN -> European
ISO -> you said enough about that
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I'm not surprised really, ISO have standards for pretty much everything, why not Tea?
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and an ISO standard for human?
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There isn't - there isn't even a holotype:
Wiki on QI on the Perfect Human: Most species have a holotype, which is a standard shape to which other individuals are compared. Humanity does not have a holotype, though Linnaeus gave Homo sapiens its nomenclature, so it was felt the honour should go to him. The next aspirant, American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, was disqualified because he had syphilis, which affected his skeleton. Bob Hope, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Raquel Welch were all nominated as "perfect" or the standard for humanity. Vitruvian Man demonstrates the dimensions of the human. The height is the length of the arms outstretched perpendicularly as a square, and when arms are spread at an angle with legs, it fits a circle. The image appears on the one Euro coin in Italy.
YouTube QI discusses the Perfect Human[^]
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Why didn't they name it "Standard Brownian Motion Source Medium"?
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There are also British Standard turds - used for testing flush toilets
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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And a British Standard Finger - used for checking ventilation holes to ensure nothing nasty can be touched from the outside.
(I only know this because I once built a prototype mains powered device out of cardboard for demonstration on a customer site and we had to be sure the ventilation slots it needed were safe. Well, safe as mains equipment in a cardboard box could ever be...)
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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You might be comforted to know that, back when I worked in the industry and had access to the index and library, the US DoD had a MIL-SPEC for sheep. I don't recall the number, and doubt that it still exists, but the entire office got a good laugh about it when I pulled a copy for us to 'review' for relevance to our current project (designing ICBM ATE). Other ruminants were included in the same spec, IIRC.
Will Rogers never met me.
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