[Closed] Are you a whinger ?

You ok hun?

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?

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.

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.

I've had quite a few graduate engineers give me cm dimension

Oh and ft ins and kips when working for an American consultant.

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.

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!

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?

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.

Christ on a bike there's still imperial unit remoaners about...

Hopefully this flu epidemic will see them all off 🙂

Feet are still used for floor areas aren't they?

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.

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" wicket

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...

This may blow your mind OP, but when I track rides I do it in kilometres.

Pyro 8)

This may blow your mind [s]OP[/s] beej, but when I [s]track[/s] ride[s]s[/s] I do it in [s]kilometers[/s] miles .

😉 😛

Think of all the money you've saved on punctuation

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.

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.

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.

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! 😆

ha! what's that from, Pyro?

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.

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..

I'm fairly sure clothing in the UK uses 'cm' but what about on the continent? Do trousers have a 750mm or 75cm waist?

[unless you can levitate' yes]

Ha ha ha funniest post on this thread, scotroutes.

This forum is much more entertaining than telly

traildog - Member
Are you over 60 years old? It may surprise you to learn that many people use cms.

Is the OP from Yoikshire I wonder..

ha! what's that from, Pyro?

Found it on Imgur, from a book by Josh Bazell ('Wild Thing'), apparently.

I think cm were thrown in because they're a similar size to the inch

Not on my ruler.

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 moon

4. Whales
5. Wales

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, [b]1970[/b]-what?

Yards for railways
Feet are still used for floor areas aren't they?

At least they didn’t metricise the British £. 😉

Double-decker buses

I thought that the accepted unit of measurement round here was "an area the size of Wales"?

I don't understand the fuss over metric measurements. They simply work and work well. Some of the older generation get sniffy about metric being used and see it as some kind of personal slight, but given the cold temperatures we're seeing this winter, hypothermia will resolve that problem.

[url= http://www.scottishwater.co.uk/investment-and-communities/your-community/glasgow-investment/sst ]The tunnel is being constructed using a specially designed tunnel boring machine. The tunnel route was carefully selected to minimise disruption. [b]It will be big enough to fit a double-decker bus inside[/b] and more than five times as long as the Clyde Tunnel.[/url]

The cm thing is a wee bit of a side issue it was the whingin i was on about
Another of mine is the height of the road bumps in my area massive they are yet other councils put wee pimples on the road or even just paint them on
My gripe is my car suspension getting beaten up

You do know you're meant to slow down going over them?

Hows your hangover? 🙂

Dressmakers use cm. Everyone else should use mm.

Dressmakers use cm. Everyone else should use mm.

Think you'd better change your username then 🙂

[quote=Gary_M ]I think cm were thrown in because they're a similar size to the inch
Not on my ruler.

You must have a funny ruler. On mine cm are the same order of magnitude as inches (unlike mm or m).

I love that Double Decker bus is the agreed SI unit for something impressively large, and that for even larger things Wales and France are admirable substitutes.

Football pitches,
Buses
Groats

"Order of magnitude" does not equate to "similar size".

Centimetres are of course a 'thing' is just no one outside of the UK school system seems to use them

Erm, and bike frames, they all seem to be in cm.

For climbers, falling rocks follow the size order:

fist
head
microwave
fridge
car
bus

Metalheart- you didn't go to Glasgow Polytechnic in the late 80s early 90s did you? I had a lecturer who used furlongs/fortnight as a joke measurement. Never heard it anywhere else though.

I got slightly whingey the other day when I realised my daughter didn't know what a gross or a score were.

My favorite unit of measurement factoid is that before about 1300, the English foot was 11/10ths the size of the modern imperial foot. Which is why there are 220 modern yards in a furlong rather than 200.

[quote=slowoldman ]"Order of magnitude" does not equate to "similar size".

In the context it does.

[quote=martinhutch ]For climbers, falling rocks follow the size order:
fist
head
microwave
fridge
car
bus

For round rocks maybe. I dislodged a table sized one last year (I guess it was somewhere between microwave and fridge in mass - fortunately I had time to tell my belayer to get out of the way before it went).

Inside leg, always CM.
Anything else is a Dutch cask or faggot.

I had a lecturer who used furlongs/fortnight as a joke measurement

15 furlongs a fortnight would be an oxgang, or half a virgate.

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!

WTAF?!!

Dez - are you and the OP on the same 'meds'??!!

DrP

I think cm were thrown in because they're a similar size to the inch, non?

Similar in what way?

You surely weren’t meaning similar in size were you !? 😐 that must have been a typo.

Centimetres are very useful in engineering.

They flag up those who haven't got the first clue about engineering. 😯

I thought that the accepted unit of measurement round here was "an area the size of Wales"?

welsh nateral history museum (is ace you should go) marks wales on EVERY map, including Pangea.

Tried to make a joke with colleagues this morning, the old monty python 'back in my day we were grateful for dudududuh and xyz'. Completely lost, likelihood of intentionally lost. $£^&*$%*"^&* $%£U*((£$(*&.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html

you didn't go to Glasgow Polytechnic in the late 80s early 90s did you? I

I did!

Metalheart- you didn't go to Glasgow Polytechnic in the late 80s early 90s did you?

Close, I did day release at Glasgow College of Technology. Mid/late eighties.

I like that the unit of measure for UK shoe sizes is 'Barley Corns'. A size 9 shoe is one barley corn longer than a size 8.

A bag of barley I was carrying at the weekend split and my left boot went up from a size 12 to a size 168.

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Maybe it's a generational thing
Who says "He was a big guy over 1.82 cm"?
Who has 17.78 and 30.4 records?
Who orders 0.47 of a litre?
My horses alway get pipped in the final furlong.
I stll hate Farage though

When I'm measuring stuff I get things like '4foot 3 and 9mil'

Christ, I wonder how some people get through the day! I’m 64 this year, I use inches, feet, yards, miles, millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres, depending on which is most appropriate at the time.
Considering to get a centimetre measurement from a millimetre measurement you divide by ten, or just knock the last digit off, it beggars belief that there are people who seem to be unable to grasp a measurement system that is divisible by ten, or a hundred, or a thousand.
Oh, and a foot is about 30.5cm, an inch is 25.4mm, a yard a bit less than a metre, it’s a piece of piss to do a (very) rough conversion.

I agree the metric system is miles more straightforward and easier to understand 🙂
Why isn't there a metricated time measurement system in common usage though?

[quote=nick1962 ]Who has 17.78 and 30.4 records?

Who has vinyl records? Regarding this century's standards, who has 4.7 inch CDs or DVDs?

Who orders 0.47 of a litre?

Somebody who likes short measures.

[quote=CountZero ]Oh, and a foot is about 30.5cm, an inch is 25.4mm, a yard a bit less than a metre, it’s a piece of piss to do a (very) rough conversion.

Personally I particularly enjoy going to the timber yard and picking up 2.4m of 50x100.

[i]martinhutch » For climbers, falling rocks follow the size order:
fist
head
microwave
fridge
car
bus[/i]

For round rocks maybe. I dislodged a table sized one last year

Occasional, coffee or dining?
It matters 🙂

Working in a college I often get teenage students coming up to me asking me to cut some mdf up or make them something giving me sizes in feet/inches.

Makes you think.

I use imperial measurements when working on boats, mm for everything else. I've also learnt that whinging about stuff doesn't make it go away, but I'll feel better for having whinged about it.

Volumetric displacement for hydraulic pumps is measured in cm3

The S.I. unit for popups and redirects is STWs...

Makes you think

I only work in Buses and Football pitches as a concept of scale.

And Eiffel towers for height.

I'm more of a winger.. no not the footballing type.. I just usually make it up as I go along and wing it...

[quote=kayak23 ]

For round rocks maybe. I dislodged a table sized one last year

Kitchen. Slightly bigger than a coffee table.

Real people use cm. Mm are for engineers etc who want to look special. Bloody silly idea using thousands of titchy little things when a big one will do. Inches are dead handy actually . bigger than a cm , smaller than a foot, just right. A yard however is less so.
Normal people know that their welly is 1 foot long and across your hand to the end of your thumb is 6 inches. Different sized body? Freak!

Drug dealers manage to utilise both metric and imperial without issue.Weed is always in ounces eighth + quarter etc + 9 bars but coke+speed is in grams but sometimes then changes back to ounces when you buy larger amounts...or so I have heard.

Who has vinyl records?

[quote=nick1962 ]Enough to fill Wembley stadium or a two dozen Olympic size swimming pools

Wow - so only 90% of physical music sold is in metric sizes.