It was a home hardware and most of the longer ones with nice features were inches only. There were a bunch of metric only ones, too, but it’s nice to have both when some furniture descriptions have only one or the other because the tape then handles the conversion without having to remember if that 2.2 factor is inches to cm or kg to lbs or both.
Though it could be that whoever decides what products to stock at home Depot is just better at their job than whoever does it at home hardware, or maybe I’m in the minority locally of wanting both and preferring metric if I have to choose one.
Coming from a non-American, an inches-only tape measure is incredibly cursed
As an American, I was a bit flabbergasted when I looked through all the tape measures at the store, and none of them had a metric side
I found one when I looked but it was a bit spendy cause it was fancy in other ways. Still went for it cause I want both units.
The rest of the world thanks you <3
As a Canadian I hate it too.
Yeah, a good chunk of the ones available here only have inches, too. It was hard to find one with both when I bought my last tape measure.
Almost every measuring tape I saw at my local Home Depot in Vancouver had metric on it.
It was a home hardware and most of the longer ones with nice features were inches only. There were a bunch of metric only ones, too, but it’s nice to have both when some furniture descriptions have only one or the other because the tape then handles the conversion without having to remember if that 2.2 factor is inches to cm or kg to lbs or both.
Though it could be that whoever decides what products to stock at home Depot is just better at their job than whoever does it at home hardware, or maybe I’m in the minority locally of wanting both and preferring metric if I have to choose one.
That’s how I feel about Celsius being for everyone.
even though I know it’s literally the best option, my pea sized brain goes “wait? 30° is hot??”
30°F is beautiful when you have had a few -10°F days. The difference between 70°F & 30°F is the same as 30°F & -10°F.
110°F - If I don’t get A/C soon, I literally might die.
70°F - It’s so nice, I’m going to open the windows.
30°F - It’s so cold there’s ice outside. Look, snow!
-10°F - The snot in my nose is frozen. I can’t feel my fingers and they hurt at the same time.
-50°F - I didn’t expect seals to make that noise.
You don’t have to use the same unit in all situations. Just ask the British.
As an American engineer I agree
Those fractions are barely readable and I’m not even dyslexic
That’s a tape for the new guy on the crew so he doesn’t look like a dum-dum. Until the crew sees his tape anyway.
Even more cursed if those same markings where on a CM calibrated scale.
Fractional metric for the win
Yeah, fractions of 10 that is.
I have one that measures in feet and inches, so you can only see it’s 9’8", you have to do 9*12+8 in your head.
Well yeah, if you were raised learning imperial measurements, you’d probably find a metric-only tape to be an criminal abomination just as easily.
No, they’re fine. It’s the bilingual tapes that are a pain in the ass. You have to guess at half the measurements no matter your preferred scale.
Yes, if you were also a illogical moron.