Stupid little things that bug you

[Barcon]

Is that wear your daughter lives?

Somebodies daughter

 

[Barcon]

A mate of mine's wife was measuring an alcove for some shelves and despite having a tape measure she came up with "It's about 140cm" Super, I'll order the wood and hope for the best shall I?

Now’t wrong with that. If he orders 10’ pieces he’ll get two shelves out of each one.
letting a woman near a tape measure is an entirely different matter. Automatic man card removal.

 

[DrBlueBob]

Now’t wrong with that. If he orders 10’ pieces he’ll get two shelves out of each one.
letting a woman near a tape measure is an entirely different matter. Automatic man card removal.

This, incidentally, is the bloke who I worked with building dry stone walls, mainly field walls. He doesn't like doing work in residential gardens on the basis that the clients are apt to criticise on the grounds that they will actually look at the work regularly.

I think that they deserve each other.

 

[East Level 2]

Do you have similar feelings about people who use psi or bar for pressure? Or are these OK even though they aren't SI units?

 

[Deleted member 77198]

People that use cm for measurement. Millimeters or Meters is all you need. Ex 1200mm = 1.2m. Industry standard. Only drop shorts use cm.

Our mix-and-match usage of imperial and metric system measurements bugs me.

My height, chest, waist, inside leg, shoe size, weight, distance to somewhere, speed I’m travelling, the drink I order at the pub, the burger I order from Charcoal Pit etc etc. are all taken in imperial measurements.

But the weights at the gym, bottles of Coke at the shop, and furniture from IKEA are all taken in metric.

Just fucking stick with one or the other.

I’ve never once changed my scales to KGs to see how much I weigh, so why are the weights in the gym in KGs? Makes no sense!

“I’m doing a ten ‘kay’ run soon, hoping to build up to a marathon one day”… Why is one 10km but the other 26miles? Fucking make them both km or both miles.

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

People that use cm for measurement. Millimeters or Meters is all you need. Ex 1200mm = 1.2m. Industry standard. Only drop shorts use cm.

Feet and inches. Everything else confuses me.

 

[Grassland Blue]

Autocorrect

The man who invented autocorrect has died.


His funfair's on sundial...

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Unless you are actually buying a Hoover vacuum cleaner they should never be referred as Hoovers

I suppose its a word like Jeep.
So popular that its now used generically for rival products

 

[DrBlueBob]

I suppose its a word like Jeep.
So popular that its now used generically for rival products

@Big Swifty informed us that they are known as eponyms.

 

[Big Swifty]

@Big Swifty informed us that they are known as eponyms.

Yes, but only those named after people (eponymously).
Jeep is a word made up frpm GP (Gee Pee), short for General Purpose vehicle in WW2 (so jeep isn't strictly an eponym likehoover or biro.)