I've never really understood why inches are for "whores" or why people need to repeat it. It seems like a vulgar reference. If you feel the urge to explain it just stop. Derogatory terms for women with multiple sex partners like tart, floozy, tramp, hooker, hussy and trollop are just as offensive.?ÿ?ÿ
Wait a second... is the vara metric or imperial? ???¦?ÿ
#TEXAS
From Spanish measurement of a cordel being 50 varas, it is now a Texas thing...........
"The Texas vara?ÿwas legally set at 33???? inches in Article 5730, Acts of?ÿ1919?ÿ(revised?ÿ1925), effective?ÿJune 17, 1919"
I was hoping someone would??ve commented on the receipt of the metre bar in the ??French year year VII?.
Lots of interesting posts, but no real logical argument to not convert to metric versus the international foot.?ÿ Anyone ??.
Unfortunately the international foot is different than the US Survey foot. But there’s only 1 meter.
The US tried before, mostly with the age group of people on this forum saying how easy it is to switch, but it failed. I think the logic would be, it was tried once and it didnt work.
In today’s election if world, feet meters are not a big issue. IMO my EDM doesn’t measure in feet or meters, it measured in wavelength of a base freq. the ft or m part is on me.
construction staking is a whole nuther thing.
I was raised on feet, because the generation before me could not handle the switch to meters, now that same group is telling me how easy the switch would be, and I am to lazy to learn meters.
They are too lazy to learn feet.
The same can be said for carpenters and architects that do not want to learn tenths of a foot.
Bill Waldon added to the problem with package and product manipulation that went from a quart or gallon of something that cost x dollars to a similar looking package that holds less and costs the same.
What's the problem with metric??ÿ ?ÿ We're surveyors, we can measure in anything, poles/ perches, varas, smoots, chains, links, even feet and meters....
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Sam Walton, perhaps?
Oh, I remember. The metric system was supposed to be easy .. on .. someone .. Why were we doing this again ??
Exactly, ty
Metric is certainly the more utilitarian system of measurement, but I'm not sure that's a good enough reason to switch.?ÿ There is an elegance in having a system of measurement that conforms to the natural world.?ÿ One foot = one foot, one stride = one yard.?ÿ It's always easy to dismiss things like elegance or internalization, that can't be easily be quantified, but my vote is to wait to switch to Metric once the US ceases to be the greatest source of human productivity in known history.?ÿ?ÿ
