Listening to the radio as i eat my breakfast and I hear there is to be more snow 15 to 30 cm, does me in cms nobody uses them other than the bbc and blue peter years ago along with their sticky backed plastic so i admit im a whinger but then Im trumped by Ronnie o sullivan he mumps and moans constantly about snooker he should give it, snooker has been pretty good to him over the years
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You ok hun?
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Pretty incomprehensible. Did you put whisky on your cornflakes?
So is this whinge based on the fact that you don't know how long a cm is?Posted 2 hours ago # -
I've had quite a few graduate engineers give me cm dimension. Just model it 1/10 the size and stare blankly at them.
But i can't say it bothers me!
Also tape measures and almost evey ruler are in cm.
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15 to 30 cm, does me in cms nobody uses them
No-one uses centimetres? Damn this new-fangled metric system.
A very odd post on a Friday morning. Perhaps have another coffee and chill.
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I've had quite a few graduate engineers give me cm dimension
Slightly bizarre. In my engineering days it was m. and mm. Well, apart from inches for pipes, bricks and reinforcing steel obviously!Oh and ft ins and kips when working for an American consultant.
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Slightly bizarre. In my engineering days it was m. and mm. Well, apart from inches for pipes, bricks and reinforcing steel obviously!
Yeah mm, m and km for us. As for pipes, well those are only nominal and there is seldom any dimension that is actually the same as the nominal size in inches. The only thing I use cm for is my height.
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Yeah, not going into the measurement systems, but answerin the question, I am.
Worst thing is, when you're just telling people something, like, I dunno, "I had porridge for breakfast", they always go, "Stop whinging!", when, at that point, you're not. Lotta commas in that sentence. I wasn't whinging, just stating!Posted 1 hour ago # -
Slightly bizarre. In my engineering days it was m. and mm. Well, apart from inches for pipes, bricks and reinforcing steel obviously!
Thats my point. We were definitely taught cms in school.
Yards for railways
Feet are still used for floor areas aren't they?Posted 1 hour ago # -
Are you over 60 years old? It may surprise you to learn that many people use cms. If you google it, you will learn that they're a fraction of a metre, which is an SI unit so used quite an awful lot. When measuring something like snowfall, people often use cms rather than a decimal point of a metre. The way the weather is going, we'll soon be using millimeters to measure snowfall.
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Christ on a bike there's still imperial unit remoaners about...
Hopefully this flu epidemic will see them all off
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Feet are still used for floor areas aren't they?
Unless you can levitate, yes.Posted 1 hour ago # -
Listening to the radio as i eat my breakfast and I hear there is to be more snow 15 to 30 cm, does me in cms nobody uses them other than the bbc and blue peter years ago along with their sticky backed plastic so i admit im a whinger but then Im trumped by Ronnie o sullivan he mumps and moans constantly about snooker he should give it, snooker has been pretty good to him over the years
Are you sure you were eating breakfast, and not drinking it?
Nobody uses cm? I think you may be wrong, miles out in fact.
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Work in both at work master reel comes on a 3 or 6" core but is 1200mm wide
Bag is made 200mm x 300mm but is put on a 3" wicketPosted 1 hour ago # -
I though Brexit was going to mean that we didn't have to use these new fangled johnny-come-lately units of measurements and we're going back to Fathoms and knots by Jove!!
Or is it yards and stones, or crumpets and cubits, or strong and stable, I get confused...
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Apologies for the sweary...
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This may blow your mind OP, but when I track rides I do it in kilometres.
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Pyro
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This may blow your mind
OPbeej, but when ItrackridesI do it inkilometersmiles .
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Think of all the money you've saved on punctuation
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twistedpencil - Member
Christ on a bike there's still imperial unit remoaners about...Where?
In engineering its km m and mm
Unless its not.
Simples.
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I do millimetres, inches , feet and miles.
I like my bikes weighed in pounds but components in grams.
I like my temp to be C up to 20 and F after that.Posted 58 minutes ago # -
No-one uses centimetres? Damn this new-fangled metric system.
I'm picturing a drunk Scotsman snowed in and going slightly mad with cabin fever when I read the OP, but I think they mean that no-one uses cms over mm rather than it's was all fields and inches when I was a lad.
Centimetres are of course a 'thing' is just no one outside of the UK school system seems to use them (and seemingly radio weather types of course) - it's millimetres, metres and kilometres.
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About the only things I struggle with using metric are personal sizing like height, waist, chest, etc., everything else I prefer metric. I just about remember my height but if asked what my chest size was in metric I'd have to work it out from the imperial figure.
Distances I'll use whatever's handiest really, so: half a mile; a kilometre; a mile; two km. Up to around 800m/yds they are interchangeable in conversation but I'll definitely use metric if I know it's going to wind up whoever I'm talking to!
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ha! what's that from, Pyro?
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I've had quite a few graduate engineers give me cm dimension. Just model it 1/10 the size and stare blankly at them.
If they actually put 'cm' then it's a valid unit and you're being a dick, if they didn't then why not have some fun and do it in chains, or fathoms, as one of the first things I learnt at uni was if you don't unit it, it could be anything.
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I think cm were thrown in because they're a similar size to the inch, non? All the other units of metres occur in three orders of magnitude, so cm doesn't really fit in..
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I'm fairly sure clothing in the UK uses 'cm' but what about on the continent? Do trousers have a 750mm or 75cm waist?
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[unless you can levitate' yes]
Ha ha ha funniest post on this thread, scotroutes.
This forum is much more entertaining than telly
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traildog - Member
Are you over 60 years old? It may surprise you to learn that many people use cms.
This +1Is the OP from Yoikshire I wonder..
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ha! what's that from, Pyro?
Found it on Imgur, from a book by Josh Bazell ('Wild Thing'), apparently.
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I think cm were thrown in because they're a similar size to the inch
Not on my ruler.
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I only use the same units of measurements as tabloid newspapers.
1. Football pitches
2. Double-decker buses
3. How many items need to be stacked on top of one another to reach to the moonPosted 19 minutes ago # -
4. Whales
5. WalesPosted 18 minutes ago # -
My favourite measurement is furlongs per fortnight.
However, use BTU’s and I’m ready to deploy some of Tons fist pie.
Metrication, when was that again, 1970-what?
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