I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while. Standardisation. It’s a word. I like it. Do you like it? I think takeaway and cafe stores need to adopt the definition.
What am I babbling about? Drink cups.
It all starts at Boost juice. They have drinks in two sizes. Small & large you might think? How about medium and original. Medium & original? This drives me crazy. They have two sizes. Why isn’t it something that represents size? Original is not a size. Boost juice hasn’t been around since the 18th century to have an original.
2 cups? small, large
3 cups? small, medium, large
4 cups? small, medium, large, stupid (come on, how many sizes do you want).
It’s just not that hard.
In other news, our house is now a home:
In further news, in this day and age we strive to write software that takes into consideration a singular value. if the amount is 1 minute, it would say 1 minute, not 1 minutes. Transperth says no (they’ve printed “mins” on the sign):
emma said,
April 13, 2008 @ 7:24 pm
I will join your cup size crusade. I was duped the other day at Boost. I quickly scanned the menu, saw ‘original’ and ordered it assuming it was the normal size, not the stupidly big size. I was full of icey juice beverage for about a week.
kirstie said,
April 13, 2008 @ 7:49 pm
boost juice has three sizes. there’s a kids size one too
mlambie said,
April 13, 2008 @ 8:11 pm
Short, tall, grande, venti. Thank you Starbucks.
kirstie said,
April 13, 2008 @ 10:15 pm
or alternatively if we follow muzz buzz’s suit: short, tall, grande rbo (the really big one) hehe
James said,
April 14, 2008 @ 2:36 pm
If you notice on the sign though, while it does say “1″ in digital and “mins” permanently on the sign at the bottom it says “next Perth all stops 16 min” they seem to put an S where its not needed and remove the S when its needed.
daniel said,
April 16, 2008 @ 9:01 am
how about if they put a / in between the n and s?
would that be sufficient?