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[quote]MrZsasz wrote:

[quote]Jewbacca wrote:

Hay and agricultural products get measured by the “cord”[/quote]

Don’t know about other places, but around here we still use cord for things like firewood. For example, my father just bought two cord of wood for the woodstove this winter.

On another note, most people I know use time in place of distance for travel. I have no idea how far I am to Ottawa in km or miles but about an hour. If someone asks me how far to the nearest town, I say 15 minutes, not whatever the kilometres happen to be.[/quote]

The cord thing has always gotten me. I used to split and sell firewood in the winter and never actually bothered to look up or measure an actual cord, so someone would always want to bust my balls about it.

Them “Is that a full cord or a face cord?”.

Me “It’s a truck load. The price is for a truck load.”.

Them “Well, I gotta know because I’m blahdeblahdeblah…”.

Me “Ok. Well, for that price- You get a truck load.”.

Them “Fuck you then. I’m not dealing with an idiot like you.”.

Usually some cantankerous old bastard driving a station wagon.

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[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]MrZsasz wrote:

[quote]Jewbacca wrote:

Hay and agricultural products get measured by the “cord”[/quote]

Don’t know about other places, but around here we still use cord for things like firewood. For example, my father just bought two cord of wood for the woodstove this winter.

On another note, most people I know use time in place of distance for travel. I have no idea how far I am to Ottawa in km or miles but about an hour. If someone asks me how far to the nearest town, I say 15 minutes, not whatever the kilometres happen to be.[/quote]

The cord thing has always gotten me. I used to split and sell firewood in the winter and never actually bothered to look up or measure an actual cord, so someone would always want to bust my balls about it.

Them “Is that a full cord or a face cord?”.

Me “It’s a truck load. The price is for a truck load.”.

Them “Well, I gotta know because I’m blahdeblahdeblah…”.

Me “Ok. Well, for that price- You get a truck load.”.

Them “Fuck you then. I’m not dealing with an idiot like you.”.

Usually some cantankerous old bastard driving a station wagon.
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LOL.[/quote]

What’s really funny about this is that a cord and a “truckload” are pretty much the same thing. A standard pickup bed is four feet by eight. If you stack wood in a pickup truck bed four feet high, you have one cord.

So the cantankerous old bastard is the idiot, not SkyzykS.

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Metric is stupid. Try building something in metric. Cut something in half, you got 0.5, again, 0.25, again 0.125, again 0.0625, again 0.03125. How do you divide something into thirds? 0.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333. Yeah go fuck yourself.

Don’t get me started on soccer.

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Oh yeah, I already got started on soccer. And totally pwned that shit!!!

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]MrZsasz wrote:

[quote]Jewbacca wrote:

Hay and agricultural products get measured by the “cord”[/quote]

Don’t know about other places, but around here we still use cord for things like firewood. For example, my father just bought two cord of wood for the woodstove this winter.

On another note, most people I know use time in place of distance for travel. I have no idea how far I am to Ottawa in km or miles but about an hour. If someone asks me how far to the nearest town, I say 15 minutes, not whatever the kilometres happen to be.[/quote]

The cord thing has always gotten me. I used to split and sell firewood in the winter and never actually bothered to look up or measure an actual cord, so someone would always want to bust my balls about it.

Them “Is that a full cord or a face cord?”.

Me “It’s a truck load. The price is for a truck load.”.

Them “Well, I gotta know because I’m blahdeblahdeblah…”.

Me “Ok. Well, for that price- You get a truck load.”.

Them “Fuck you then. I’m not dealing with an idiot like you.”.

Usually some cantankerous old bastard driving a station wagon.
[/quote]

LOL.[/quote]

What’s really funny about this is that a cord and a “truckload” are pretty much the same thing. A standard pickup bed is four feet by eight. If you stack wood in a pickup truck bed four feet high, you have one cord.

So the cantankerous old bastard is the idiot, not SkyzykS.
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You mean face cord, which is generally what is sold.

http://www.woodburning.org/wood.htm

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[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
Metric is stupid. Try building something in metric. Cut something in half, you got 0.5, again, 0.25, again 0.125, again 0.0625, again 0.03125. How do you divide something into thirds? 0.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333. Yeah go fuck yourself.

Don’t get me started on soccer. [/quote]

SMH what the fuck are you builing? A nanobot?

Cut 100cms in half you get 50cm… then 25cm then 12.5cm it really isn’t that difficult. Unless basic maths is an issue.

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[quote]pushharder wrote:
MrZaszaz, maybe you need to do more Zercher squats. A man who Zercher squats knows distances in miles or kilometers or furlongs or fathoms, not fucking driving time. Sheesh.[/quote]

Okay, I have zero idea where this ummm insult came into play. Is it supposed to be an insult? A reference to something clever? Or even why you seem to be so morally outraged over the time thing that I brought up. You obviously know it wasn’t me who created it, I just added it the other examples of odd measurements. You also seem to get the idea behind it, though you want to complicate it.

You didn’t get all up in arms over a cord of wood. From your response above, it seems like you are trying to provoke me into getting worked up over this for some unknown personal reason which is silly. Or maybe you are just trolling, as all of your responses seem out of character.

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[quote]Testy1 wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

Don’t know about other places, but around here we still use cord for things like firewood. For example, my father just bought two cord of wood for the woodstove this winter.

On another note, most people I know use time in place of distance for travel. I have no idea how far I am to Ottawa in km or miles

What’s really funny about this is that a cord and a “truckload” are pretty much the same thing. A standard pickup bed is four feet by eight. If you stack wood in a pickup truck bed four feet high, you have one cord.

So the cantankerous old bastard is the idiot, not SkyzykS.
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You mean face cord, which is generally what is sold.

http://www.woodburning.org/wood.htm[/quote]

From your link:

“A full cord of cordwood, split or unsplit and stacked should measure 4 feet deep by 4 feet high by 8 feet long.”

From my post:

“A standard pickup bed is four feet by eight. If you stack wood in a pickup truck bed four feet high, you have one cord.”

Four by four by eight. Full cord.

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[quote]MrZsasz wrote:

[quote]pushharder wrote:
MrZaszaz, maybe you need to do more Zercher squats. A man who Zercher squats knows distances in miles or kilometers or furlongs or fathoms, not fucking driving time. Sheesh.[/quote]

Okay, I have zero idea where this ummm insult came into play. Is it supposed to be an insult? A reference to something clever? Or even why you seem to be so morally outraged over the time thing that I brought up. You obviously know it wasn’t me who created it, I just added it the other examples of odd measurements. You also seem to get the idea behind it, though you want to complicate it.

You didn’t get all up in arms over a cord of wood. From your response above, it seems like you are trying to provoke me into getting worked up over this for some unknown personal reason which is silly. Or maybe you are just trolling, as all of your responses seem out of character. [/quote]

Aw, come on, Mr Zaasz.

If there’s one thing you oughta know about our pal Push here, it’s that moral outrage is completely in character for him. If Push ain’t respondin’ with moral outrage, it prolly means he ain’t payin’ attention.

But unless the subject is somethin’ SERIOUS, like bannin’ guns or killin’ babies (or determining human origins and the age of the universe), it’s purdy safe ta say that he don’t meeeeean nuthin’ by it.

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[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
Metric is stupid. Try building something in metric. Cut something in half, you got 0.5, again, 0.25, again 0.125, again 0.0625, again 0.03125. How do you divide something into thirds? 0.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333. Yeah go fuck yourself.

Don’t get me started on soccer. [/quote]

I like metric for measuring smaller things in cm. & mm. Inches just get messy when you have to subtract prime fractions of differing denominators on the fly. Especially when some anal retentive draftsman and engineers get together to make a drawing. You always end up with some crazy shit like 41 7/64" minus 23 21/32" while some meth head is bouncing around like a rogue rubber dildo 20 some feet in the air waiting for a piece of metal and the torch is all fucked up.

It happens like that every damn time too.

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Yeah we were supposed to officially convert to this Metric system like 30 years ago, right?
But we just flat out resisted it…The only place I know where it’s used in America are it’s territories,
We saw ‘kilometer’ Speed limit signs in Puerto Rico when we were there a few years ago.