[Greenbuilding] metric system in building, was 'square head screws'

[Speireag Alden]

Sgrìobh Keith Winston:

>I don't see great advantage to Imperial. It is, as they say, Imperial.
>We only still have it cuz we're the big guys who don't have to play with
>anyone else.

     Yup.

>Who cares if a foot is roughly the size of a foot, a meter
>is roughly the height of a trashcan, so it must therefor be infinitely
>more practical...

     One of my grade school math teachers pointed out that the shaft 
of a parking meter was about a meter high.  He said that it always 
helped him picture things in meters, because he laid parking meters 
end-to-end.

     Never worked for me, because they're actually more than a meter. 
But since I can picture a yard pretty well, at half a fathom, which 
is about my armspan, or almost exactly one of my paces, I can also 
picture a meter pretty well.

-Speireag.

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