Bogtrotter
Senior Member
I personally prefer to use feet for building heights, but I will provide both next time. It's unfortunate you have such a low opinion of Canada.
PUTOTO
Active Member
Don't make me side with French Canadians which I actually don't like so much because of their passion towards separation.
I saw a person in Montreal holding a picket sign when the royals were visiting there.
"No speak English" (not even "Don't" speak English).
If you're saying people shouldn't express their opinions or feelings unless they are perfect at English language, what would those who are incapable of doing that eventually think?
Back to the topic, this is what I personally prefer.
1)Using metric alone (the best option for Canada)
2)Using imperial only (okay...that's what Canada's gone for)
3)Using both metric and imperial (very inefficient, time consuming, and confusing)
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Bruvyman
Active Member
First off, what does this have to do with French Canadians? To be honest, I don't care a lick about your grammar or spelling as long as you get your point across. The point I was making was that you should be careful about attacking someone for a very minor issue when you are typing a post full of other just as minor issues (ie. grammar). Its a kettle and pot issue,I suppose.
Secondly, you should maybe reexamine your dislike for French Canadians (Hint: They're not all separatists).
Lastly, Imperial and Metric are both accepted units of measurement and someone above provided a handy link for conversion, so use it and stop making grand assertions about how that reflects on us as a country.
Back to L-Tower talk....
vegeta_skyline
Senior Member
Oh-no the metric police have arrived!
Ridiculous, I too also use feet and its got nothing to do with following the US or not following the International standard. Feet are simply more accurate by more than a 3 to 1 radio, without having use a forth digit (for the most part there's no need to use decimals). Also there's just something more substantive about higher figures, 1000ft sounds much more impressive than 304m.
First off, how is using both metric and imperial confusing? Too many numbers for ya? Here's a tip, ignore the number with feet or ft next to it. It will be the higher number. Secondly and more importantly, quoting building heights in feet isn't against any rules that I'm aware of. Perhaps the next time you make a request you could leave out the whole thing about following some international standard and how you prefer things to be, especially when someone is contributing useful information. Just stick to the please's and thank you's, you'll get a better response.
Ridiculous, I too also use feet and its got nothing to do with following the US or not following the International standard. Feet are simply more accurate by more than a 3 to 1 radio, without having use a forth digit (for the most part there's no need to use decimals). Also there's just something more substantive about higher figures, 1000ft sounds much more impressive than 304m.
First off, how is using both metric and imperial confusing? Too many numbers for ya? Here's a tip, ignore the number with feet or ft next to it. It will be the higher number. Secondly and more importantly, quoting building heights in feet isn't against any rules that I'm aware of. Perhaps the next time you make a request you could leave out the whole thing about following some international standard and how you prefer things to be, especially when someone is contributing useful information. Just stick to the please's and thank you's, you'll get a better response.
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PUTOTO
Active Member
1) I was not attacking. I was actually begging or politely suggesting.
2) I dislike French Canadians(or Quebecois) only when they shout out "don't speak English" or "Vive le Quebec libre!"
3) I didn't see somebody provided a link for conversion but it he/she did it's very nice of him/her. I actually have 3 bookmarks on my chrome for unit conversions and have been actively involved in the conversion thing in the architecture field for years. I think I spent approximately 100 hours just for converting units which does not mean anything in fact, which does not produce anything actually. If Canada seriously wanted to promote metric, not just superficialy saying Canada's official unit is Metric, Canadian's lives and scenes of the lives would have been more like the ones in France, Japan, or the rest of the World. I didn't even know or ever need to know how big inch or foot was before I came to Canada. The only times that I saw or heard those strange words(Feet, Mile) were when I was watching American Hollywood movies.
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Homer
Active Member
Just to point out why sometimes just metric is not used: Most as-built drawings of existing buildings of a certain age are in imperial so if a new, addition, or renovation is contimplated it sometimes makes sense to stay in imperial.
marcus_a_j
Senior Member
Further to Homer's point, Canada only started using the metric system in the 1970's, so there are a lot of people that grew up using the imperial system. Most people in the development industry (architects, builders, planners, engineers) use imperial measurements when conversing, but they can also do a rough conversion in their head. Municipalities require various building, construction, and site plans to be presented in metric, but most plans will have both metric and imperial measurements.
Parkdalian
Senior Member
I wonder how that building this thread is named after is doing?
Dan416
Senior Member
If the UK can get away with still using Imperial, I don't see why we as Canadians should feel bad about it either. I'm well familiar with feet and pounds, because nearly all Canadians use them (although immigrants often use metric). However, Fahrenheit always stumps me.
Lansdown
Banned
We seem to be getting sidetracked in a lot of threads lately. Let's cut this gravy.
Traynor
Senior Member
Ummm... The UK has used metric for years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom
drum118
Superstar
I deal with both measurement in construction that that can be a pain at time. I prefer metric at the end of the day, since it is easy to work with as well measuring on the site.
No one was on the site today and not surprised at it, as most jobs were shut down by noon. Even Burlington was this way.
July 21
No one was on the site today and not surprised at it, as most jobs were shut down by noon. Even Burlington was this way.
July 21
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Bogtrotter
Senior Member
Well considering our closest friend and ally which we share our continent with still prefers to use feet, yards, lbs, fahrenheit etc- I verse myself in all of these. Nice update- indeed it must be hellish working on a construction site in this heat!
Granny
Active Member
Not surprised the workers were sent home.
It was like a 110 Farenheit yesterday.
My heat pumps were going steady just to keep the place at 75 Farenheit.
Finally decided to escape to the cottage yesterday. Luckily it's only about 65 miles away. It's air conditioned and cools down quickly. It's only about a 1000 square feet.
Does not cost me too much to get there. I get about 40 miles to the gallon. ..
It was like a 110 Farenheit yesterday.
My heat pumps were going steady just to keep the place at 75 Farenheit.
Finally decided to escape to the cottage yesterday. Luckily it's only about 65 miles away. It's air conditioned and cools down quickly. It's only about a 1000 square feet.
Does not cost me too much to get there. I get about 40 miles to the gallon. ..
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