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Whats wrong with a metre?
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Posted: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 11:31 PM UTC
A couple of weeks ago I moved into a new house.
When I viewed it there were some shelves inbetween the chimney breast and the wall which looked great,put the previous owners took them with them leaving 2 lines of raw plugs in the wall.
Ok thinks I,,,I liked the shelves so I'll replace them.
Luckily I managed to find plenty of brackets with the holes the correct distance apart to match the raw plug holes in the wall.
I had measured the width and it was just over 1m. 101cm to be exact.
Great I thought,,metre wide shelves should be EASY to find!
Are they
897mm or 1197mm is the standard sizes I found.
897?,,,,,1197?,,,,who dreams those sizes up? eh? eh?
SO,,,,,,,,Whats wrong with a Metre? :-) :-)
Nige
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Posted: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 11:35 PM UTC
Maybe the Chimney was "off" when it was Built..............
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Posted: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 11:42 PM UTC

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Maybe the Chimney was "off" when it was Built..............


Good answer and I can see where your coming from Matt.
However,,I have a sneaking suspicion that the chimney was there first.

My main point is who dreams up these wierd "standard sizes"?
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Posted: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 11:58 PM UTC

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My main point is who dreams up these wierd "standard sizes"?


Would you believe "Wierd Standard People" who will be refered to as "WSP" in all future references to them.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 12:19 AM UTC

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897mm or 1197mm is the standard sizes I found.


Ah, ye Olde 3 & 4 feet at work.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 12:41 AM UTC
whats wrong with a metre eh? thats easy-
*in the style of the pub landlord* - "ITS FROM BRUSSELS"
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 04:35 AM UTC
You could always buy the 1198mm ones and partake in some diy to cut them down to 1010mm- nothing a workmate and a circular saw can't handle.

Phil
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Sorry to split hairs but i think you'll find the metre is FRENCH - which is obviously worse than belgian

Funny french historical stuff

I'll get me coat

Andy
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 04:51 AM UTC
You used to be able to buy it in understandable measures... Then Pres. Blair and his pals demanded everything had to be in Foreign.

Ohoh... I'm in trouble now!
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 02:45 PM UTC
But but 897mm isn't 3' either- it's 35 and bit "

David
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 03:26 PM UTC
The EEC strikes again. Typical blame Ted Heath and the gang.

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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 03:45 PM UTC
Simple fellow travellers.....THAT would make it too simple for us mere mortals. :-) :-)
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 03:50 PM UTC
897mm is not even three Roman feet

Perhaps you ought to demolish the house and rebuild it so the shelves fit.....

David
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 04:41 PM UTC
It's very simple chaps

897mm is three metric feet

Andy
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 05:37 PM UTC

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It's very simple chaps

897mm is three metric feet



Problem solved :-)
Or is that 3 foots?
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 05:48 PM UTC

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It's very simple chaps

897mm is three metric feet

Andy


Very nearly....

Metric foot

So the BBC built to the metric foot did they?

David
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 09:08 PM UTC
Talking of feet,,,(metric or otherwise),,did you know that................
the distance between your wrist and your elbow is the same as the length of your foot?

Oh yeah,,shelves are up,,homebase cut shelves to size while you wait

Nige
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 09:23 PM UTC

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Talking of feet,,,(metric or otherwise),,did you know that................
the distance between your wrist and your elbow is the same as the length of your foot?


Picture readers trying to put their feet next to their arm...
Picture the waiting room at th chiropractitioners in the morning...

:-) :-)
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Posted: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 11:50 PM UTC

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Picture readers trying to put their feet next to their arm...


Hehe, oke, now I'm really curious how many people tried when they read this, at least I did,...... :-) :-) :-)
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Posted: Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 02:43 AM UTC
So, can anyone explain why a foot is deemed 12 inch when at the time it was deemed, no one would have had 12 inch feet ????

lampie
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Posted: Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 02:55 AM UTC
I heard once that the origin of the inch comes from the distance between the knuckle and the end of the thumb.
Dont know where a "foot" comes from though.

Heres another one to ponder.
Apparently,,your heart is the same size as your fist
Dont try this one at home,,especially in the State of California

Nige
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Posted: Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 03:00 AM UTC

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I heard once that the origin of the inch comes from the distance between the knuckle and the end of the thumb.
Dont know where a "foot" comes from though.

Heres another one to ponder.
Apparently,,your heart is the same size as your fist
Dont try this one at home,,especially in the State of California

Nige


As I heard, the mainland equivalent of the inch, the duim (thumb) is the with of a thumb at it's widest point ( which mine pretty much is ).

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Posted: Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 05:57 AM UTC
I think its only right and just that I post a photo of the shelves that started this great debate!

Nige
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Posted: Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 07:28 AM UTC

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Picture readers trying to put their feet next to their arm...


Hehe, oke, now I'm really curious how many people tried when they read this, at least I did,...... :-) :-) :-)


I did and oddly enough it worked.


Nice looking shelves.
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Posted: Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 09:21 PM UTC

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I think its only right and just that I post a photo of the shelves that started this great debate!

Nige


ok they fit but they dont look level :-)

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Posted: Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 11:49 PM UTC

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I think its only right and just that I post a photo of the shelves that started this great debate!




Great work on the figure on the 3rd shelf up. Very realistic
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