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By *llaandGCouple
over a year ago
London |
A recent Cautionary Tales podcast talks about the dangers of mixing imperial and metric, and imperial is so lacking logic (just my take) though I love a Chain as it's the distance between the wickets in cricket!
Though I did learn that the reason aviation talks about flying at so many feet is so it differentiates between altitude which is always in feet and distance which is always in kilometres.
Useless fact of the day. You're welcome!
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"A recent Cautionary Tales podcast talks about the dangers of mixing imperial and metric, and imperial is so lacking logic (just my take) though I love a Chain as it's the distance between the wickets in cricket!
Though I did learn that the reason aviation talks about flying at so many feet is so it differentiates between altitude which is always in feet and distance which is always in kilometres.
Useless fact of the day. You're welcome!
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I'll have 3metres of 4 by 2 please... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"For human weight and height it's stones and feet. If someone says they're 1m 50cm or 74kg I've no idea how big they are.
My dick is 15cm then "
Suddenly needs Google converter  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"For human weight and height it's stones and feet. If someone says they're 1m 50cm or 74kg I've no idea how big they are.
My dick is 15cm then
Suddenly needs Google converter "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Feet and inches, stones and pounds.
You throw any combination of those, I get an immediate idea of scale.
Go metric, I'm fucked.
If I'm doing anything DIY related though and you start spouting inches or imperial nonsense I'll lose it. |
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"For human weight and height it's stones and feet. If someone says they're 1m 50cm or 74kg I've no idea how big they are.
My dick is 15cm then
One sky remote? Or one and a quarter lynx cans. "
That's how I think about miles. A mile is a distance internally consistent with other distances in miles, for which I have no reliable frame of reference unless I convert it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Height in feet and inches. Never remember which is ' and whic is " tho.
Tho tbh when someone on says they are give four eight, I'd be rubbish at guessing how tall they are.
Weight in kg. It's one number to remember.
Nwver cared about petrol. I put it on til it stops filling and drive until it's almost empty. Pay no attention to how many miles it does.
Everything else I use metric, especially if I'm gonna have to do some sums. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"So.. You weigh in.. What units do you use?
You measure your height.. What units make sense to you?
I'm a feet and inches, stones and pounds kind of guy.. "
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Centimetres I can understand too for height, but have no idea what the kilo to stones exchange rate is! |
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"So.. You weigh in.. What units do you use?
You measure your height.. What units make sense to you?
I'm a feet and inches, stones and pounds kind of guy..
likewise
Centimetres I can understand too for height, but have no idea what the kilo to stones exchange rate is!"
Kilo is 2.2lb. 14lb in a stone. You're welcome  |
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"Good with either though metric is easier to add,subtract, divide with etc, especially when baking. Although using cups is even easier, a cup of this, two cups of that etc  "
US or UK cups?! They're not the same!  |
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"Good with either though metric is easier to add,subtract, divide with etc, especially when baking. Although using cups is even easier, a cup of this, two cups of that etc
US or UK cups?! They're not the same! "
Depends if I an following Mary Berry or Barefoot Contessa |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Measurement wise I'm always changing between metres/millimetres and feet/inches. Never centimetres though.
Also use stones/pounds and kg. "
Try ordering car tyres without mixing metric and imperial.
Mountain bikes use inches 26/17/19 whereas roadies use 650/700c, just look up (biketiresizes's website)Just shows you the origins of those disciplines.
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Height in both, car distance in miles, small measurements in metric, beer and milk in pints, soft drinks in litres. A right mish-mash. "
Bras in inches? along with records pizzas, tellies and high heels? |
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"Measurement wise I'm always changing between metres/millimetres and feet/inches. Never centimetres though.
Also use stones/pounds and kg.
Try ordering car tyres without mixing metric and imperial.
Mountain bikes use inches 26/17/19 whereas roadies use 650/700c, just look up (biketiresizes's website)Just shows you the origins of those disciplines.
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Very annoying for wheelchairs! My day chair uses 24" bike tyres. Basketball chair 700c road tyres |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Measurement wise I'm always changing between metres/millimetres and feet/inches. Never centimetres though.
Also use stones/pounds and kg.
Try ordering car tyres without mixing metric and imperial.
Mountain bikes use inches 26/17/19 whereas roadies use 650/700c, just look up (biketiresizes's website)Just shows you the origins of those disciplines.
Very annoying for wheelchairs! My day chair uses 24" bike tyres. Basketball chair 700c road tyres "
Tell me about it. are they both presta valved? |
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"Height in both, car distance in miles, small measurements in metric, beer and milk in pints, soft drinks in litres. A right mish-mash.
Bras in inches? along with records pizzas, tellies and high heels?"
yep. Cooking ingredients in grammes. |
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"Measurement wise I'm always changing between metres/millimetres and feet/inches. Never centimetres though.
Also use stones/pounds and kg.
Try ordering car tyres without mixing metric and imperial.
Mountain bikes use inches 26/17/19 whereas roadies use 650/700c, just look up (biketiresizes's website)Just shows you the origins of those disciplines.
Very annoying for wheelchairs! My day chair uses 24" bike tyres. Basketball chair 700c road tyres
Tell me about it. are they both presta valved?"
Depends what inner tubes I can find on the day! My pump does both, fortunately. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Measurement wise I'm always changing between metres/millimetres and feet/inches. Never centimetres though.
Also use stones/pounds and kg.
Try ordering car tyres without mixing metric and imperial.
Mountain bikes use inches 26/17/19 whereas roadies use 650/700c, just look up (biketiresizes's website)Just shows you the origins of those disciplines.
Very annoying for wheelchairs! My day chair uses 24" bike tyres. Basketball chair 700c road tyres
Tell me about it. are they both presta valved?
Depends what inner tubes I can find on the day! My pump does both, fortunately. "
I've got a metal Mequix floor pump, one screw in valve head with a built in twisting plunger schraeder. Not cheap, but 17 pumps will fill a 700c tyre to 90psi. I've even use it on the car's tyres.
Much easier than a trad car pump or push on pumps, that snap valves. |
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"Measurement wise I'm always changing between metres/millimetres and feet/inches. Never centimetres though.
Also use stones/pounds and kg.
Try ordering car tyres without mixing metric and imperial.
Mountain bikes use inches 26/17/19 whereas roadies use 650/700c, just look up (biketiresizes's website)Just shows you the origins of those disciplines.
Very annoying for wheelchairs! My day chair uses 24" bike tyres. Basketball chair 700c road tyres
Tell me about it. are they both presta valved?
Depends what inner tubes I can find on the day! My pump does both, fortunately.
I've got a metal Mequix floor pump, one screw in valve head with a built in twisting plunger schraeder. Not cheap, but 17 pumps will fill a 700c tyre to 90psi. I've even use it on the car's tyres.
Much easier than a trad car pump or push on pumps, that snap valves."
Ours isn't fancy, a fairly basic push-down pump off Amazon, but light enough to cart round. Wheelchair tyres have between 100-120psi in them...... |
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"So.. You weigh in.. What units do you use?
You measure your height.. What units make sense to you?
I'm a feet and inches, stones and pounds kind of guy..
I'm hybrid.
5ft ish
54.9 kg. "
I am hybrid too. 6’7 and 97.4 kg. |
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"So.. You weigh in.. What units do you use?
You measure your height.. What units make sense to you?
I'm a feet and inches, stones and pounds kind of guy..
I'm hybrid.
5ft ish
54.9 kg.
I am hybrid too. 6’7 and 97.4 kg."
I think that makes two of me to one of you |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Measurement wise I'm always changing between metres/millimetres and feet/inches. Never centimetres though.
Also use stones/pounds and kg.
Try ordering car tyres without mixing metric and imperial.
Mountain bikes use inches 26/17/19 whereas roadies use 650/700c, just look up (biketiresizes's website)Just shows you the origins of those disciplines.
Very annoying for wheelchairs! My day chair uses 24" bike tyres. Basketball chair 700c road tyres
Tell me about it. are they both presta valved?
Depends what inner tubes I can find on the day! My pump does both, fortunately.
I've got a metal Mequix floor pump, one screw in valve head with a built in twisting plunger schraeder. Not cheap, but 17 pumps will fill a 700c tyre to 90psi. I've even use it on the car's tyres.
Much easier than a trad car pump or push on pumps, that snap valves.
Ours isn't fancy, a fairly basic push-down pump off Amazon, but light enough to cart round. Wheelchair tyres have between 100-120psi in them......"
How are you supposed to swap out tubes, when you're outside? |
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By *otMe66Man
over a year ago
Terra Firma |
Metric all the way, especially for measuring weight and cooking it is a no brainer.
1 litre of water weighs 1 kg
1 ml of water weighs 1 gram
No more squinting at a scratched measuring jug, weigh it instead
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"Measurement wise I'm always changing between metres/millimetres and feet/inches. Never centimetres though.
Also use stones/pounds and kg.
Try ordering car tyres without mixing metric and imperial.
Mountain bikes use inches 26/17/19 whereas roadies use 650/700c, just look up (biketiresizes's website)Just shows you the origins of those disciplines.
Very annoying for wheelchairs! My day chair uses 24" bike tyres. Basketball chair 700c road tyres
Tell me about it. are they both presta valved?
Depends what inner tubes I can find on the day! My pump does both, fortunately.
I've got a metal Mequix floor pump, one screw in valve head with a built in twisting plunger schraeder. Not cheap, but 17 pumps will fill a 700c tyre to 90psi. I've even use it on the car's tyres.
Much easier than a trad car pump or push on pumps, that snap valves.
Ours isn't fancy, a fairly basic push-down pump off Amazon, but light enough to cart round. Wheelchair tyres have between 100-120psi in them......
How are you supposed to swap out tubes, when you're outside?"
With great difficulty. I carry tyre levers in my bag and have, on more than one occasion, seconded help from random people or dropped into a bike shop for help. |
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By *usie pTV/TS
over a year ago
taunton |
Some what alarmed when I see wheel chair tyres have to be inflated to 100psi are you sure that is correct it is highly dangerous, I was once hospitalised by an exploding tyre that left me with severe head injuries, that probably goes some way to explain why I am like I am. |
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"So.. You weigh in.. What units do you use?
You measure your height.. What units make sense to you?
I'm a feet and inches, stones and pounds kind of guy.. "
Funny, this one!
When I am measuring me, I use stones and pounds, and feet and inches.
When I measure how much I lift when training or how far I travel when running and hill walking, I use kilograms and kilometres |
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"Some what alarmed when I see wheel chair tyres have to be inflated to 100psi are you sure that is correct it is highly dangerous, I was once hospitalised by an exploding tyre that left me with severe head injuries, that probably goes some way to explain why I am like I am."
Yep! They're rated up to 120psi and whilst I've had basketball chair inner tubes pop, the inner tubes are within bicycle tyres and you just get a flat. No-one or thing has ever been injured. Makes one heck of a noise though
There's no head injuries happening with wheelchair tyres. |
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Learned imperial, but for years worked in freight business using metric. So some things I always think of in metric, some in imperial. My height is imperial, my Wright is taken in metric, but I always convert so I get a better idea of my weight, which is weird. My daughters are totally metric. |
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