Trivia question for those living in metric using countries...

[majic]

We do use the metric system here in the U. S.
....for liquor and wine.

[straffo]

Originally posted by eskimo2:
Straffo,

How high are your cielings in France?

eskimo

In general 2.50 meters but we don't use wood as almost 99% of our house are build in Concrete (or stone for the older).
It's pretty rare to see an house made in wood (except some "chalet" in moutain)

[straffo]

After digging a bit it seems that the std dimension are : 250cm x 120cm et 250cm x 90cm
voila  

[Staga]

Ceiling is 250cm here and width of panels are usually multiply of 30cm (90cm,120cm) which is base for "module design rules" (translated Finnish term).
Same multiply of 30cm is used when makeing concrete moulds or frameworks inside of walls from "2by4" or cabinets to kitchen (usually 60cm)

[-lynx-]

1 gallon = 3.785 liters

That's US gallon, Imperial gallon is 4.54 litres. Our gallon is bigger than yours  

And a foot is, of course ~0.30m, 0.9m is 3 feet or a yard.

Standard ceiling here in the UK (new housing) is 2.40m on the ground floor and it is different from builder to builder for the first floor. My 24 year old house was built by some moron who decided to "equalize" - 2.30cm ceiling in both upstairs and downstairs. Pain for furniture - downstairs too low and upstairs too high. Same people put a flat roof on a 24 foot long garage   ...

A friend of mine was converting miles into kilometers for years and I could never figure out why - it still takes an hour to travel 50 miles at 50mph. Same time as 80km at 80kph

[straffo]

Originally posted by -lynx-:

A friend of mine was converting miles into kilometers for years and I could never figure out why - it still takes an hour to travel 50 miles at 50mph. Same time as 80km at 80kph  

it's obvious ...

It's more spectacular to say that you drived at 80 kmp than 50 mph  

[flakbait]

Oops! Got it fixed. I was reading the yards to meters conversion, not the feet to meters one.

Some others:

Degrees C to degrees F:
+32 x1.8
50 degrees C works out to 107.6 F
(50 +32 x1.8)
Reverse it for F to C conversion. (temp -32 devided by 1.8)

Imperial gallons to US gallons: x1.2
10 Imp gallons is 12 US gallons

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