xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard
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Anyone who is caught counting ‘three … two … one … zero … GO!’ will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3232/
The real problem in my opinion is people count too slowly and irregularly for a precise sync up. Better to learn from the world of music and count off
You can count me in like that but I insist a full measure of Mars, Bringer of War.
This is why you have a practice count! “On three, everybody… one, two, three!”
“Okay, got that? Here we go: one, two… three!”