OT - Monitors - TFT v. CRT

[PoP]

Exactly.

When I'm on customer site measuring up I switch between orgasmic and metric on a whim - it really depends which side of the tape measure is closest to the edge I'm measuring.

Usually when I've taken a metric measurement I go back to read off the imperial measurement just to make sure. Reason being that if the length is quite long (over 1m) I have been known to read something like 1.605m as 1650mm because I've missed or added a zero - and it does make a bit of a difference!

It's next to impossible to misread imperial on a ruler. 47 and 5/8ths inches can't really be mistaken for anything else . It's what I was schooled with and you like to use those things that you are most familiar with.

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[Christian McArdle]

Ah. My tape measures have mm both sides! I prefer to work with one unit, rather than change depending on what side of the tape is nearest.

Christian.

[John Laird]

I'm quite happy working in either units, but I find myself more often making mental slips in imperial. In your example, it's quite likely I would jot down 45 and 7/8ths.

As the old saying goes, measure three times, cut once ;-)

[Christian McArdle]

Annoying those who don't like metric units?

Christian.

[PoP]

Yeah - and the next thing you will be complaining about is getting 3 points on your license for doing 50 in a 30mph zone! ;)

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[Tony Bryer]

Which is why on one trip to the USA an older friend asked me to buy him some tape measures. Wickes had a lot of apologising to do when they arrested him for shoplifting and he made them look carefully at the Stanley Powerlock he'd allegedly just pocketed!

[PoP]

I guess I have a guilt complex even though I'm completely honest!

It always concerns me when I visit a DIY place with a tape measure in my pocket, just in case I get held at the exit door on suspicion. For that reason I always make sure my tape measure is clearly labelled from a different source to those of the DIY shed I'm visiting - it would be a bit difficult for Focus DIY (e.g.) to claim that the TLC-Direct labelled tape measure came from their store shelf!

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[Andy Hall]

I tend to just go along with whatever tape comes to hand - generally leaving one in the car because I'm forever putting them down and forgetting where.

A store would have to demonstrate that you took the article from the store which usually means that they have to have seen you pick it up, pocket it and walk out.

I don't like the game that some of the stores play of wanting to see receipts on the way out and checking goods and tend not to co-operate with it.

.andy

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[Huge]

You misunderstand. I don't give a toss about metric units, one way or the other. Hell, I have a science degree. I'm quite comfortable with metric units.

It's metrication fascists I have trouble with.

[geoff]

In message , derek writes

I'm not quite sure where you've been for the last 100 years, but they don't build Victorian terraced houses any more, and (this might come as a bit of a shock to you), farm hands ploughing with oxen are a bit of a rarity nowadays.

While I can still think in £sd if I try, what's the use? it's gone, it is no more it's a relic of the past. The rest of the UK has moved on, try it.

Aah, so that is the root cause of a broom cupboard going for a million pounds in London - that's OK then

[geoff]

Because they have to interface with other people in a bigger world. That mistakes can happen is well demonstrated by a very expensive piece of junk which was last seen going in the direction of Mars

[geoff]

In message , PoP writes

That's if they can find 2 square metres spare in which to bury you

Real close shaves are measured in Rizlas

Surely you mean grammys (for bad acting)

I'll draw you one on the bar one da

Because the powers that be think that we are too stupid to be able to judge such parameters in metric

I'll stop before I put my 30cm in it too far

[geoff]

Possibly because it's going to happen one day

[geoff]

And when did you last see a roman legion marching past your front door?

[PoP]

Actually I think it is heading away from Mars now, probably to be intercepted in a gazillion years from now by some alien race who pick it up on their space radar.

But that sure was a very expensive mistake! Mind you, I sometimes wonder whether it was a convenient excuse to hide some other mission failure - like they found out that they put 4 star fuel in the craft instead of diesel ;)

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[PoP]

The way the immigration system is working we seem to have legions of many different nations marching past the proverbial front door.

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[Christian McArdle]

Or you could be like me, pick up one of the cheap ones from the tool section to measure some wood, put it in your pocket and completely forget about it. Still, the amount of trade I put their way, they can forgive me a value tape measure.

Christian.

[The Natural Philosopher]

But I can actually use both, and do as you ned to on teh continenet.

Yes.

Yse.

Yes.

Add in temperature. I have almost forgotten what 100 degreed F is like.

Ther as someything nice about fahrenheit. 0 degrees was the coldest it ever got and 100 degrees was the hottest it ever got in te year and place wherever Mr Fahrenit did his measurements...

I am totally bilingual on linesar measuremenst too - inches/mm - use ether one and have most of the convesrsions in my head.

Prefer watts to BTU/h

Or Bhp.

Harmonisation and decimilastin is on balance a good thing, but teh old measures were fun and have historical sigbnificance amnd meaning. I miss them.

[The Natural Philosopher]

No, because of all the decimalisations that happened, that is the one whose cost would have been borne entirely by the government.

[Christian McArdle]

Few people I know understand what Farenheit means. You get the impression that "in the 80s" means it's fairly warm and 100 is blood temperature, but thats about the limit.

I thought that 100 Farenheit was the temperature of a cow's behind, but have probably been sucked in by an urban myth.

Christian.