They're coming for you Mr Pounder

[James Wilkinson]

Freedom of speech is being attacked:

[Dan S. MacAbre]

More than ever I envy the yanks. We have quite a few coming in at work. I was once discussing print margin sizes with one guy, and he's a clever IT bloke, but he had no idea (his words) what 5mm looked like. But the thing I had to admire was, he really didn't care. After all, he said, 'I'm not a scientist'.

[James Wilkinson]

I've grown up with inches and cm, but for some reason I can never estimate an inch as easily as a cm. Although I can estimate 7 inches very well for some reason. I can also tell a metre, and a metre and a half, by the distance from my hand to my other hand, or to my opposite shoulder.

[Dan S. MacAbre]

Please! Don't elaborate :-)

I can estimate whole metric units pretty well, but other than that, it's just a case of 20cm is 8", 30cm is a foot, etc. It always comes down to a conversion, because that's all I can visualise. I suppose it's simply because I'm an old git that I can estimate imperial sizes without reference to my various appendages. They just seem to be made for everyday use.

[James Wilkinson]

I have to refer them to something I know the size of, like a 2x4 piece of wood.

But I seem to be able to remember what a cm looks like by visualising part of a ruler.

[Dan S. MacAbre]

A cm is almost exactly the width of my left little finger nail, which is a little atrophied.

[James Wilkinson]

Same here, apart from the atrophied.

Actually an inch is the width of my thumb at its widest point, I should remember that.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Pillock.

[Cursitor Doom]

It won't work. Anyone who seriously wants to troll anonymously will just sign up with a VPN provider for a few dollars a month and then really let rip! I think It'll just make things worse, but when has that ever stopped the government? ;-)

[whisky-dave]

Me too.

are you sure you're not getting confused with cm again ;-)

What height do you say you are metric or imperial same with weight. I still use both imperial and metric it sometimes get a bit silly. we use service mount devices things aren't done in 0.1 inch spacing like they used to with stripboard. It's now mostly metric which isn't 2.54mm typical resistor sizes down to 0.4mm X 0.2mm expressing this in imperial can be difficult although track widths are sometimes still expresssed in thou thousands of an inch typically 20 or 30 thou. even simple things like double sioded tape I have 25mm width and another real is 24mm or 0.98" .

[James Wilkinson]

I always thought a mil was a millimetre! I've heard of micron everywhere, but mils only on US films.

[James Wilkinson]

My height and weight in imperial. Used to do room temperature in imperial and outside in metric, now all metric. If I'm measuring something, I'll do it in whichever number happens to line up closest on the tapemeasure.

[Johnny B Good]

I like that guy's sense of humour (failed Mars Rover mission anyone?) :-)