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Never heard that one before.

I've heard "Metre by metre, life get's sweeter", however.

   

Not that it matters to the actual topic, but studs are cut at a standard length of 92 5/8 inches. One bottom plate and a double top plate make up about one inch longer than eight feet, which gives you your eight foot wall with some tolerance for the ceiling drywall and flooring.

As has been mentioned already, converting to metric doesn't imply changing standard dimensions - a 2x4 will remain 38x89mm. If you look at a Canadian wood design manual, for example, all the units are metric, but are based on the standard imperial dimensions - 191x241, 89x286, 38x184, etc etc etc.

   

still less then 8', besides I'm used to using rough lumber.

   

Britian should do like the US require metric to be on all good but allow Imperial units to be twice as big with metric units in brackets.

   

We have to both on. We have to put both Imperial and Metric on. But that's only because our EU masters tell us to do so.

When we get our independence from the EU then we'll take the Metric ones off.

   

40F is around 5 Celsius (if Britain and France one day are exactly the same temperature we Brits can still console ourselves by saying that while it's 40 degrees here it's only 5 degrees in France).

And all this just proves again that Imperial is superior to Metric.

The Imperial farenheit scale gives the illusion that temperatures are warmer than they are if they were measured in the Metric celsius.

For example: In Britain we measure the temperature outside using Farenheit. So a nice, hot day in Britain could be 80 degress farenheit.

But in Europe, and maybe Canada, celsius is used. The SAME temperature (80 farenheitin Britain) measured in Metric celsius in Europe and Canada would be just 27 degrees celsius.

So even though it's the same temperature, it just feels as though Farenheit is warmer. Whilst the British are basking in glorious 80 degrees, countries in Europe who are the same temperature are only 27 degrees!

It reminds me of the time in 2004 when I spent nearly the whole summer in Italy. One boiling hot day I looked at the digital thermometer in the Italian car that I was in and the temperature read something like "32 degrees".

I rememer thinking "32 degrees. It's hotter than that! It's bloody boiling here! 32 degrees is quite cool!"

Then I remembered that it's 32 degrees celsius and the equivalent temperature in Imperial measures that we use in Britain would be a very high 90 degrees.

And the Imperial farenheit scale fits along the scale perfectly, whereas the Metric fits along the scale in a lopsided way..


5 degrees farenheit is very cold, 40-50 degrees is quite average, whereas 80-90 degrees is very hot. It fits perfectly!

Whereas the Metric celsius scale just doesn't fit along the 0-100 perfectly.

Even just 50 degrees in celsius is very hot, whereas zero must be around AVERAGE temperature in celsius measurements (in most European countries that use Metric measurements then it would be VERY VERY hot indeed if the temperature goes much higher than 50 celsius).

All this just goes to show the stupid measurements that Brussels was tryig to force on Britain.

   

Isn't it just what you are used to?

Isn't all change hard?

   

GB, you're joking, right? Please tell me you're joking!

   

He said -40 which is the same in farenhigt and celcius.

I was just thinking. If second is the metric base unit not houors should rod signs be changed to metres / second.

   

True we should use the Lord Kelvin Scale.

   

Not Kelvin!

   

I conquer, Celsius it is then.

   

I can live with the C. But if people started changing the signs to Meters/Second it would baffle he country. Km/H is good enough, because its easier to discern how far you have to go, I would think.

   

That's the stupidest thing anyone has said in this thread. I suppose millimeters are better than inches because they make things seem bigger, right?

   

Man I would totally mesaure my wang in Milimeters if that worked.

   

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