Just Got A Cool Meter Long Stick

[BoomerD]

Understanding Meter vs. Metre | Difference & Usage - Worthy Tutors

Meter vs. Metre: Both words cause confusion having identical pronunciation but different spellings/usage depending on the variant of English.

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[brianmanahan]

LoL English pronunciation has nothing to do with spelling.

i blame the french

 

[brianmanahan]

You have a weird accent!

interesting, i never realized metre is pronounced differently than meter

here a parking meter is pronounced the same as the 100 meter dash

 

[KLin]

*Yard stick with 3 extra inches

 

[Gizmo j]

Then you should have got a stainless steel one.

That sounds like it'll hurt... 🤕

 

[sdifox]

That sounds like it'll hurt... 🤕

Umm, that is the point of a sword fight.

 

[Chaotic42]

 

[Gizmo j]

Umm, that is the point of a sword fight.

I wasn't going to actually "fight" with my old roommate with the rulers, I was planning on "pretending" to fight with the rulers.

 

[sdifox]

I wasn't going to actually "fight" with my old roommate with the rulers, I was planning on "pretending" to fight with the rulers.

Then use pool noodles.

 

[lxskllr]

Lame. Get a fencing set, and have a real(ish) sword fight. It's a lot cheaper if you skip the protective gear.

 

[BoomerD]

Umm, that is the point of a sword fight.

 

[zinfamous]

My Freud meter went to 11.

I had a church youth group councilor many years ago that talked the same way Gizmo talks about his yard sticks and roommates.

 

[zinfamous]

Wasn't he that German guy that used to be on MTV?

You mean Kurt Lodre?

 

[balloonshark]

These would make better swords and they are cheaper. Back in the day you didn't have to pay for a yardstick.

https://www.harborfreight.com/building-construction/measuring-marking/rulers-squares/rulers.html

 

[bba-tcg]

He'd need a metric tape rule and metric crescent wrench for construction...maybe even a metric hammer.

Definitely a metric hammer. No other way to drive metric nails.

 

[Gizmo j]

I would love a 3D printer with a meter long printing platform.

The blocks in Minecraft are exactly 1 meter long so I think it'll be cool to make the blocks in real life.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I would love a 3D printer with a meter long printing platform.

The blocks in Minecraft are exactly 1 meter long so I think it'll be cool to make the blocks in real life.

The blocks in minecraft are actually other people's servers and they themselves are made from tiny blocks which themselves are made from even tinnier blocks and so on. It's blocks all the way down man.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Pisses me off that we never converted to metric. I have no proof, but I suspect it's the southern fuckwits that held us back, because their sole purpose in life is to retard progress and make everything shitty.

It was pirates.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/28/574044232/how-pirates-of-the-caribbean-hijacked-americas-metric-system

(Not really but I like that answer the best.)

 

[lxskllr]

It was pirates.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/28/574044232/how-pirates-of-the-caribbean-hijacked-americas-metric-system

(Not really but I like that answer the best.)

Southerners. Just like I said :^D

 

[Chaotic42]

 

[Paperdoc]

Waffleironhead posted

How do people do square measures?

Like 34 yards 2foot 10⅘inch by 54 yards 1foot 8¾inches in square feet?

Just round it. Its close enough.

Round what? Round Feet? That could involve Pi! Scary.

KLin said, "*Yard stick with 3 extra inches"
Actually, that's 3.37007874015748 extra inches, but maybe we'll round that.

 

[Chaotic42]

I've never heard anyone say something like "24 yards, 8 feet, 11 7/11 inches" outside of maybe some surveying, where they'd use a GIS to figure out area if they had to. If you can multiply 11.82382m x 18.29192m, you can multiply 24 by 3 and 8 by 12 and calculate all of that out.

For my purposes, I just do everything in inches, but I rarely do anything with calculations past about 10 feet.

 

[Red Squirrel]

When building I tend to use feet/inches because that's what materials are measured in so it's just easier to stick to that, but if I have to measure between two points to make a cut, I find using cm and mm much easier than trying to figure out fractions. Measure up to the closest cm then count the lines for mm. Although if I have lot of similar measurements to make, like cutting studs when building a wall in an existing building and nothing is same distance, I will usually make a jig to make the measurements then transfer them to a piece. When I did my basement every single stud had to be measured individually as the ceiling and floor is different heights everywhere by a few mm.

 

[lxskllr]

I couldn't do my job in fractions. I'd rage quit before the day was over. It would all be handwork with a pencil and paper, and the results would be shit compared to decimal.

 

[sdifox]

As expected, op took on debt on the CC to the max