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Feet n inches, yipeeeeeee!
Great news boarders, we can all still work in feet n inches lbs, gallons etc.
what a great nights sleep i had knowing i can go out to my clients and measure up the old way!
Full front page news for the mail, and poor liitle maddy still missing, all they could muster up for the poor little girl was a quarter page!! come on press get your prioritys right!
Bet all my fellow boarders have got their corel set up in ft n inches havent you?
Anyway must dash got a berlingo van to measure up…….so thats 143" and 11 sixteenths. 😕 😕
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16ths????? thats why I like to work in metric!!
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Will Michael Foot have to change his name???? 😀 😀
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quote Harry Cleary:Will Michael Foot have to change his name???? 😀 😀Yea he’ll be called "mickey metric"
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feet & inches is an "age" thing normally, and yes i work in ft as well. 😳
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quote John Simpson:feet & inches is an “age” thing normally, and yes i work in ft as well. 😳Mate, your not much older than me…. I can only use metric…. but I still get customers ask for a quote on 1 metre long by 4 inches high.
I had to buy one of those dual tapes with imperial and metric so I knew what the heck they were talking about. 😕
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I still get Julie (who works here) coming up with 2′ 3" & a little bit (meaning 1/8th) & yes she is younger than me. about Shanes age.
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I work in both. It was metric when I was at school, I measure everything in metric and my Signlab etc is all metric. BUT ……… I visualise all sizes in imperial! 😕
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you always was awkward 😀
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quote John Simpson:you always was awkward 😀
:lol1: …………….. I prefer ‘complicated’ John! 😉
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moderate and complicated….sounds like a good wine! 😀 😀 😀
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thank god you didn’t add ‘mature’ to that!
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inches or millimetres hmmmm depends what your measuring i suppose 😀
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oh George we saw enough of that at SignUk!!! 😀 😀
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i work in inches in signlab, always have… i work in nches,feet but i can easily enough work in whatever spec is dished to me, i just prefer inches.
as for the little girl missing, well i really feel for them, if same happened to my daughter (go forbid) ide go off my head with worry.
i know the police etc could and should have moved on all this much faster than they have, i cannot help but think the parents are the real ones to blame here. -
quote Robert Lambie:i
as for the little girl missing, well i really feel for them, if same happened to my daughter (go forbid) ide go off my head with worry.
i know the police etc could and should have moved on all this much faster than they have, i cannot help but think the parents are the real ones to blame here.I hope there is a safe and happy outcome ……… as a parent I can only begin to imagine the worry and horror they must be feeling right now. But I have to say ……….. I would NEVER have left Emily asleep in a hotel room to go for dinner. Not even if it was 50ft away. It’s beyond my comprehension why they did that……… especially with the room being on the edge of the complex at a main road.
However, I’m sure they don’t need anyone telling them that now. They must be suffering an immense grief. 🙁 -
quote George Elsmore:inches or millimetres hmmmm depends what your measuring i suppose 😀
Best use millimetres then George so you reach double figures ………. 😉
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quote Marcella:quote George Elsmore:inches or millimetres hmmmm depends what your measuring i suppose 😀
Best use millimetres then George so you reach double figures ………. 😉
😀 😀 😀 ouch!
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I am stilll looking for a decent tape measure in mm instead of cm!
call me mad or what!
i am mm only, although i tripple check so many measurements
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I work mm only. A sign is 2460 x 1230mm, NOT 246 x 123cm, NOT 8 x 4 foot, NOT 120 x 60 inches (or whatever)
Men (real ones, that is) work in mm, Woman – read dressmakers – work in cm, old fogeys (the rest) in ft ‘n inches. I only got 10 fingers, not 16, makes counting easier!
Have you heard why so many woman crash into the garage wall with hubby’s car???
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.because theire husbands tell ’em "this is 9 inches", proudly displaying a "member" measuring only 125mm (5 inches?) or so… -
Most customers now seem to enquire in mm but we still get the
"1m x 6inches" enquiries.our young staff all claim to be unable to function only in metric but I just ask them how tall they are. Without fail, they always answer in Feet & Inches
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quote GERT DU PREEZ:husbands tell ’em “this is 9 inches”,Lynn always parks a metre away from the garage….
peter
BTW, Rob’s not really a member. so he dosn’t count!
😀 😉
Peter
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quote Peter Normington:quote GERT DU PREEZ:husbands tell ’em “this is 9 inches”,
Lynn always parks a metre away from the garage….
peter
BTW, Rob’s not really a member. so he dosn’t count!
😀 😉
Peter
:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
good example too john… :lol1:
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I think it was an important victory.
I still think in miles per gallon not km per litre 🙄
Why shouldn’t we use whatever measure we prefer. I use metric for signs all the time – but have no problem with imperial measurements.
I have no idea how many litres per km my car or van uses but both are about 40mpg which I can understand.
I don’t get this EU thing – how come we get fined for producing too much landfill rubbish. If the EU fines our local council for producing too much landfill – who gets the money they are fined 🙄
I didn’t think I was stupid – but I really don’t get it at all 😕
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Having said all that I agree with Richard – Maddy is much more important news. I do hope she is found safe and well. I do not blame the parents at all – in a holiday situation like that I would probably have done the same thing 😕 What can we do when there is evil about 😮
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I’m a feet and inches man myself, hate working to cm & mm.
In my old job it was grams and ounces 😉 :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
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now what would you be selling by the gram, or the oz ? 😮 lol
i use whatever i need, if a measurement is bang on 6ft, then it get’s written as 6ft, not 18??, though i do work predominantly in mm/cm/mtrs.
as Phil says, i use mm for signs (mostly), feet n inches for alot of other stuff, yards for casting distance (fishing), prefer lb’s and oz for food, esp meat, all my cook books (bah rick steins) are old ones and in lb’s n oz’s, fuel is in mpg not kpl ! the plans for the internal stuff in my workshop was a right mish mash of metric and imperial (don’t imperial sound grand !) but it got built fine, just the same !!
i recall being taught both when at school (tween ’77 and ’90, god i feel old now !). ya just can’t beat it when someone gives you a blank look in response to 5′ 4" and 5/16th and a little bit ! 😮 😮
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quote Marcella:quote George Elsmore:inches or millimetres hmmmm depends what your measuring i suppose 😀
Best use millimetres then George so you reach double figures ………. 😉
Harsh! :lol1:
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quote Hugh Potter:i recall being taught both when at school (tween ’77 and ’90, god i feel old now !).
😥 I left school in 75 🙁 how do you think I feel 🙁
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Blimey Shane,you’ve got no gripes me lad.I left school before you were born!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Babs
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I’m quite happy using either, I was taught feet and inches at school but then latter on in life after I had joined the Royal Navy had to use metric when I went back to school.
Most of my design work is done in metric and I tend to use metric when measuring up and fitting as I just find it a bit more straight forward but if a customer asks me what size there sign will be I tend to use feet and inches. I find if you tell a customer their sign is 2 foot x 3 foot they have a pretty good idea what size it is but if you say 610 mm x 915 mm they haven’t got a clue.
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Think in Inches and feet and work in metric as more accurate.
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quote Barbara Eden:Blimey Shane,you’ve got no gripes me lad.I left school before you were born!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Babs
Crickey!! I’ll have to show you more respect then….. 😉 😛
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Not at all Shane-don’t know of a more respectful person on the boards 🙂
Imperial,Metric,age – it’s all just numbers anyway-just need to be able to do the maths 🙂 🙂
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and let’s not forget most sign programmes convert it for you so no need for maths 😀 which I am hopeless at any way
Lynn
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any way, metric time would be good, ten hours to the day, ten days to a week, ten weeks to a month and ten months to a year 😀
then it would all fit into a century and a millennium!
Peter
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quote Peter Normington:any way, metric time would be good, ten hours to the day, ten days to a week, ten weeks to a month and ten months to a year 😀
then it would all fit into a century and a millennium!nice one smarty pants 😉
nik
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quote Peter Normington:any way, metric time would be good, ten hours to the day, ten days to a week, ten weeks to a month and ten months to a year 😀
then it would all fit into a century and a millennium!
Peter
very good Peter! are you forming a lobby group?
we just got one of those new microwave fireplaces…..you can sit by the fire all evening in two minutes………..perfect for a signmaker!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀
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quote Harry Cleary:we just got one of those new microwave fireplaces…..you can sit by the fire all evening in two minutes………..perfect for a signmaker!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀
:lol1: :lol1: nutter!
Thanks Barbara – I tell my kids.. you can’t expect respect if you don’t show respect … fortunately both my kids seem to follow that rule.. except with respect to cleaning their room… 😕
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quote Peter Normington:any way, metric time would be good, ten hours to the day, ten days to a week, ten weeks to a month and ten months to a year 😀
then it would all fit into a century and a millennium!
Peter
mmmm, guess that has it’s advantages, the days would be 4hrs shorter, and it would make 100 weeks per year, ie 1000 days, so aprx 3 of our current earth years, so, not only would you age alot slower (one birthday every 3 years), but xmas will only be once every 3years, aswell as all the other robbing ‘festivities’ ! might even have time to save up for the next special occasion !
downside might be the fact that an earth year is built around the seasons, so you’d have several springs, winters, summers and autumns every ‘metric year’. the biggest downside would be for those who’s birthdays fall in the 2 months that are deleted, no more birthdays, ever ! 😥
actually… i’ve just decided, it’s a rubbish idea, i would have to wait 10 days for the new episode of Dr Who and Heroes (sci-fi chnl) instead of the already ‘too long’ seven days. idea scrapped mate !
i’m not taking this too seriously am I ???? lol !
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quote Hugh Potter:i’m not taking this too seriously am I ???? lol !
now ya starting to worry me mate 😮
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I use both systems, I find larger measurements easier in inches I.E. 72 1/2 inch but like metric for smaller measurements like …… :lol1:
Think I’ve said this before but the US train industry always worked in mm as that is their tolerance so they can’t mistake a biscuit crumb as a decimal point.
And the rest of them use imperial unless you talk about a gallon which is different 🙄Steve
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