Builders and the other tradies tend to talk in mm over cm when measuring smaller/shorter distances. Kinda like you might say 12” instead of 1’ (when both are the same size ). 🤷♀️
As a older Australian man I was taught Imperial measurements only to have to use the Metric system from 1974 when Metric was made the official system. People who need to measure timber or metal for work tend to use millimetres and those not tradies will use centimetres. I still use feet and inches to measure my height and stones and pounds for my weight (14lbs to the stone).
In australia .the wildlife if found injured can be taken to nearest vet .as they have goverment programs covering vet treatment for native wildlife. On more than one occasion I've taken baby magpies I've found alone to vets .
At a guess I think most of us who use millimetres instead of centimetres is because of trade background where measuring is always done in millimetres. More often than not it's an odd length like 2,497mm with a tolerance of +-1mm. Meaning it has to be 2,497mm and not 2.5m or 250cm. The extra 3mm can completely stop a job.
Correct and it is to do with engineering/scientific notation, ie division or multipliers of 1000. ie milli is 10^-3 kilo is 10^3 , micro is 10^-6 , Mega is 10^6
1st one very common in nearly all pubs (bars). Usually used in conjunction with a raffle, its a jackpot game where you have to find the joker. It can go for a whole year before going off, and by then the jackpot could be quite large.
The Woomera is used to hold a Speer, the thrower pulls back and throws forward.. it has a longer range.. you can find videos of this type of Speer throwing.
You can sit on that, and/or lay out your picnic table spread for the kids, if you brought your own chairs. Hell you can lay down on it and have a rest. It's more versatile than a bench as you may have a family of 2 adults and 2-3 kids plus one in a carry-backpack or larger groups there.
I've never heard of scrub typhus from microscopic bush mites on the ground . . . not that I'm doubting I think providing a low platform that doubles as seats and table is just cheaper than providing table and benches
As an Aussie, the Legless Lizard thing blew my mind, I thought it was just an eel and the post was a joke, boy was I wrong, and I love learning new stuff, how did I miss that?
Carpenters, plumbers and other tradies tend to measure everything in millimetres. For the rest of us, weed probably be more likely to say 30cm, or even a ‘foot’. (Yes, most Aussies over 40 can still use feet and inches for rough measurements - mainly for human height - but we’ll stick to metres rather than use ‘yards’ for larger measurements and distances.
@noelleggett5368 ..... I came from Europe in 71 and had to learn imperial measurements , no long after Australia went decimal and metric ( dollar earlier ) ... soooo , conversion was easy for me and in process being smart ass to my aussie mates who were struggling for a while . Although I still express myself in inches and feet and occasional mile here and there 😁👍‼️
We had a pet Brushtail Possum Very cute but very naughty and destructive We lived on a farm so it integrated into the farm We named him Poss! Of course He slept all day Awake all night
The blue dragon sea slug (Glaucus atlanticus) goes by several other names, like sea swallow and blue glaucus. They're small nudibranchs that float upside down on the surface of the open ocean using an internal gas sac, and feed on the tentacles of the Portuguese Man-o'-war (Physalia physalis), commonly called the Bluebottle in Australia. The stinging cells from the bluebottle are transferred to the slug's skin when it eats them, where they remain active and can sting if the slug is touched. They're very weak swimmers so they are considered to be plankton (plankton is not necessarily microscopic, it simply means the organism cannot swim against a current and is thus drifts on ocean currents), and can occasionally wash ashore. Unfortunately, once stranded the slug cannot get back to the water and will dessicate and die. Some taxonomists consider Glaucus atlanticus to actually be 4 similar but distinct species, each occurring in different ocean gyres. Super cool little critters!
When talking in metric, multiplications of a unit usually go in 1000s. 1000 microns is 1mm, 1000mm is 1mtr and 1000mtr is 1km. It keeps the mathematics simple. That's why a lot of us don't use cm.
Most architects, engineers & drafting professionals all talk & notate in millimetres. A decimal point in the wrong spot when building can cause havoc & profit losses.
Centimetres are probably only used for measuring peoples height waist and chest. They used to be used for TV set and monitors, but we've gone back to using inches.
That thing that isn’t a tiki torch looks like it used to be a hard polystyrene net float that has deteriorated over time. The steel part is probably a dropper so that the net it supports doesn’t float on the surface of the water and collect floating trash. The bottom of the net is weighted and the floats support the top of the net and keep it upright.
My dad was a steel fabricator, he would always say "centimeters are for dressmakers" if you want accuracy, always use millimeters" Whoever wrote that was a tradesman i reckon..
Regarding using millimetres - it is also typical to use the 1,000 step units.. So when going up you would use kilo- & mega- and going down with milli-, micro-, nano- & pico-.. So normally measurements less that a metre will be in mm, weights less than a gram would be mg or µm, etc..
Regarding the 300mm comment.. the author is probably an engineer. We don't use centimetres. it's an unnecessary magnitude... just no one uses centilitres for volume or centigrams for mass.
Possums are incredibly common in suburban Melbourne...I live in Heidelberg, in the north-east, and see them every night. I have maybe 5 or 6 just living in the backyard alone. Very cute little fellas 😊
The bottles are on the pipes to prevent possible injury on the sharp end of the pipes if anyone fell. e.g. If you fell and hit your eye on the sharp end you'd be in serious trouble. Jenni QLD Aust.
Low bench for bachpacking. You can sit and rest without taking your pack off or rest pack there while you take a break. Saves putting pack all the way to ground. Hadn't heard about the mites. But possible. Would save leeches climbing on to pack also
Hi Ryan, tradies measure things to the mm. So when they talk about something being 2.4 m long, they would say "2,400 mil" (note that they don't waste time saying "millimetres"). This approach would then be transferred to measurements of things unrelated to building, such as junk found on the beach.
The “oo” in “woomera” rhymes with the “oo”in “good”, not in “food”. I’ve never heard a rhyme for “woom” except in, “This parent wouldn’t voom if you put 4million volts through it!” I guess that reminds us it’s aboriginal, not English.
I have played Joker Poker. The rules were everyone paid $2 to be in the draw. If your name was picked from the draw, you got to pick a face down card. If it was 2-10 card, you won nothing and the money jackpotted. If you picked a picture card (jack, queen, king), you won $20. If you got an ace you won $40. If you picked the joker, you won the jackpot! The cards would then be shuffled and all turned face down again and you would start over.
The plastic pipes as an X is to determine people from walking on the grass. Probably temporarily as new lawn squares might have been laid. The plastic bottles make it more visible as the larger diameter bottles will catch the light better. The bottles also cover the ends of the pipe so less likelihood of any passer-by injuring themselves on the ends of the pipe.
HAHA! I didn’t know what a woo mirror was, until I realised it was an aboriginal word! It’s Woomera, as in woom-a-rah. Google it and watch a video of it in action. Woomera is also a township in South Australia. But I agree that the object is a wine bottle holder, it does nothing by itself, but insert the wine bottle and it’s perfectly balanced!
Accurate measurements use mm e.g. when building. So the size of a window would be quoted in mm. Perhaps the person was in the building or similar trade.
I'm not certain of the grid lines in that pic but some years ago a company wanted to install a similar looking grid of wires on some acres of my property. Apparenty geologists can use some equipment attached to them to see if the ground might contain valuable minerals or oil or whatever.
24 cans in a plastic pack = slab (can be soft drinks or beer/bourbon) ....... 1 small bottle of beer = stubby, if you hear the term stubby holder, it's basically a can or small bottle holder you slide your drink into, which I believe Americans call them a koozie.
I grew up using The IMPERIAL System and I still don't fully understand the Metric System. Australia doesn't have Sidewalks. We have Nature=strips.The winged badge was from The Fleet Air Arm i.e. Aircraft Carriers. Wildlife including snakes are protected in Australia. At Donald wheat country in n.w. Victoria dad was about to shoot an Eagle and decided to never kill another thing.
At 10.20mins you comment on an animal, wondering what it is. It's a legless lizard. It has tiny useless legs (you can just see them in the photo) that are not used for walking any more. They are called vestigial legs. I remember many years ago when one came into my place and I had a brief heart-stopping moment thinking it was a baby snake, but I spotted the tiny legs so it was ok and not such a big deal, thank goodness.
With the metric system it is recomended that the units be in multiples of one thousand, so millimetres rather than centimetres, kilograms rather than hectograms. But some common terms like centimetres and hectopascals are in common public use while generally not so common in more technical uses like engineering and scientific fields. A civil engineer or architect might use metres and millimetres while a carpenter or metal fabricator might prefer to use metres and centimetres.
4:21 i always grew up thinking of possums as being pretty cute, slightly annoying but harmless (we had a few in our backyard). when i saw what US ones looked like for the first time i nearly had a heart attacks lmfaoooo. idk aussie possums can be more pesky in some areas than other
A SLAB is a carton containing four six-packs, so 24 cans of beer. We used to have a cat who liked ot catch brown snakes and tiger snakes, bring them home and drop them at our feet! Said snake was pretty p-d-off and looking for someone to bite by that stage.
As a former tradie, I can agree with the millimetre being more commonly used, but after I left the trade I was talking to a colleague without a trade, and they agreed, centimetre was harder to imagine mentally. It may seem strange, but 1,000th of something (in this case a metre) is easier to comprehend and do the math on that a 100th of the same thing. I studied my trade as we were moving away from the Imperial system, but know my father (also a tradie) would regularly refer to 1,000th of an inch more often than using fractions or some other option.
We call the pub card game "chase the ace". As more weeks go by, the pot gets bigger. Usually a share goes to the venue or a charity, everything else goes to the winner. When the pot gets really full it can be quite a drawcard to the local sporting club. A few weeks ago a chase the ace was won at a local bowling club with 3 cards left, won $6,000. Not bad for a 50c ticket. It's a form of gambling that skirts the laws on gambling. Just something to draw punters in, might be live music Friday, chase the ace on Saturday. That's a Nudibranch, same family as sea slugs. Some can be quite venomous. Rule of thumb, don't touch them. They are pretty critters tho. Because the metric system requires almost no thought to convert between meters, centimeters, millimeters, dimensions, all are used, the unit usually signifys the level of accuracy required. 6m, 10mm either way is probably OK. 6000mm means 5999-6001mm. Most engineering drawings are done with mm. But because you don't have to mess around with thou, inch, ft, yard, mile conversions, it's usually easier to list everything in mm. It ends up being do I mark with chalk or a sharp pencil.
G'day Mate! Also on the use of millimetres rather than centimetres it is use din the trades like building carpentry etc etc as it is far more accurate and less likely to produce mistakes. There are no decimal points to accidentally get missed for example as well as when adding measurements together multiple decimal points can get really confusing... Cheers!
Millimetres is a very accurate measurement. Centre metres is less accurate and then we can speak of ancient imperial measurements which are accurate in there own way but when measurements require tolerance values so low the millimetres or micro millimetres measurements are required for engineering excellence
Metric system is not just the best way to measure. You can tell a lot about a person by how they use it. People who speak in mm usually has a background building, construction or trade hands on work. The rest only use functional measurements, cm m etc.
Used to know the card board as "Chase the Ace" - and the idea was to get the Ace of Spades (sometimes with minor prizes for certain other cards). Often it's played *only* for the top card and jackpots each week it's not won.
To those of us who use the metric system it's common for people in industries that use fairly precise measurements like builders or draughtsmen to always talk in terms of millimeters rather than centimeters just out of habit.
To be fair: most Australians descended from the British convicts would't know what a woomera is either, it's an artifact of the indigenous people here.
@@paulbirtles2807 True, people turn to the easily corruptible Wikipedia for information these days, no one seems to go to the library or museum anymore.
Chase the Ace is in most pubs in Western Australia, get a ticket in the draw every time you buy a drink on the night. Money jackpots each week until someone turns Ace of Spades.
Wed say 300mm over 30cm as the general unit of measurement for most measuring is in mm, say for putting together furniture or something. Mm is more professional as it's more accurate
@@SteveMcGrath-ip6df Yeah, if you use measurements for your job (construction, engineering etc.) nobody uses cm. It's μm (for very very small things), mm, m, or km.
I use millimeters because it makes me sound far bigger in some areas than I really am . ie 145lx 65 circumference?? see sounds better than 4.75 inches l x 2.5 inches circ.
no you are not stupid Ryan most Tradies (builders) talk in mm's it is 30cm's also we mostly use cm's when the thing is over a meter long we also use freedom units sometimes
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We use millimetres to give the best accuracy and fewer errors from mistakes with decimal points. It's also recommended by ISO.
Millimetres are the prefered length for building, drawing and drafting in construction , product design, etc.
Yes engineering would use mm as more accurate measurement. Eg 2506mm long.
@@zaccat693 im learning engineering right now
MM as opposed to CM are used for accurate measurements both in construction and science.
Also if you want to be cool - we say mil for mm lol. and we still need to work on your pronunciation of arvo....try saying ahhh vo
A slab of beer is 24 cans or bottles
If you're mate is a little, dopey, we say he's a Sixpack short of a slab/carton
Builders and the other tradies tend to talk in mm over cm when measuring smaller/shorter distances.
Kinda like you might say 12” instead of 1’ (when both are the same size ). 🤷♀️
As a older Australian man I was taught Imperial measurements only to have to use the Metric system from 1974 when Metric was made the official system. People who need to measure timber or metal for work tend to use millimetres and those not tradies will use centimetres. I still use feet and inches to measure my height and stones and pounds for my weight (14lbs to the stone).
In australia .the wildlife if found injured can be taken to nearest vet .as they have goverment programs covering vet treatment for native wildlife. On more than one occasion I've taken baby magpies I've found alone to vets .
what a fun video. I think by the time you actually come see us, you're going to know more about australia than the average aussie
Only in Australia! 😁👍⛱️ A baby Ring-tailed Possum, my father saved two, so cute! 🤗
At a guess I think most of us who use millimetres instead of centimetres is because of trade background where measuring is always done in millimetres. More often than not it's an odd length like 2,497mm with a tolerance of +-1mm. Meaning it has to be 2,497mm and not 2.5m or 250cm. The extra 3mm can completely stop a job.
Correct and it is to do with engineering/scientific notation, ie division or multipliers of 1000. ie milli is 10^-3 kilo is 10^3 , micro is 10^-6 , Mega is 10^6
1st one very common in nearly all pubs (bars). Usually used in conjunction with a raffle, its a jackpot game where you have to find the joker. It can go for a whole year before going off, and by then the jackpot could be quite large.
The Woomera is used to hold a Speer, the thrower pulls back and throws forward.. it has a longer range.. you can find videos of this type of Speer throwing.
Spear*
That was actually quite interesting, especially the WA outback seismic grids.
7:21 It may well be for the reason stated, but it looks like a very convenient height to help one get back on one's horse, too.
0:40 Beachfront Hotel, Rapid Creek. I was drinking there a week ago.
You can sit on that, and/or lay out your picnic table spread for the kids, if you brought your own chairs. Hell you can lay down on it and have a rest. It's more versatile than a bench as you may have a family of 2 adults and 2-3 kids plus one in a carry-backpack or larger groups there.
I've never heard of scrub typhus from microscopic bush mites on the ground . . . not that I'm doubting
I think providing a low platform that doubles as seats and table is just cheaper than providing table and benches
Helps with ants?
mm is the standard unit of measurement to avoid mistakes. it's also easy to extrapolate 300mm to 30cm or 0.3m
As an Aussie, the Legless Lizard thing blew my mind, I thought it was just an eel and the post was a joke, boy was I wrong, and I love learning new stuff, how did I miss that?
A slab of beer is a carton of beer
A carton is a large box typically housing 24 bottles of beer
@@liammcintosh8466 a beer is an alcoholic drink made as a byproduct of making vegemite.
Carpenters, plumbers and other tradies tend to measure everything in millimetres. For the rest of us, weed probably be more likely to say 30cm, or even a ‘foot’. (Yes, most Aussies over 40 can still use feet and inches for rough measurements - mainly for human height - but we’ll stick to metres rather than use ‘yards’ for larger measurements and distances.
@noelleggett5368 ..... I came from Europe in 71 and had to learn imperial measurements , no long after Australia went decimal and metric ( dollar earlier ) ... soooo , conversion was easy for me and in process being smart ass to my aussie mates who were struggling for a while . Although I still express myself in inches and feet and occasional mile here and there 😁👍‼️
Carton of piss
We had a pet Brushtail Possum
Very cute but very naughty and destructive
We lived on a farm so it integrated into the farm
We named him Poss!
Of course
He slept all day
Awake all night
The blue dragon sea slug (Glaucus atlanticus) goes by several other names, like sea swallow and blue glaucus. They're small nudibranchs that float upside down on the surface of the open ocean using an internal gas sac, and feed on the tentacles of the Portuguese Man-o'-war (Physalia physalis), commonly called the Bluebottle in Australia. The stinging cells from the bluebottle are transferred to the slug's skin when it eats them, where they remain active and can sting if the slug is touched. They're very weak swimmers so they are considered to be plankton (plankton is not necessarily microscopic, it simply means the organism cannot swim against a current and is thus drifts on ocean currents), and can occasionally wash ashore. Unfortunately, once stranded the slug cannot get back to the water and will dessicate and die. Some taxonomists consider Glaucus atlanticus to actually be 4 similar but distinct species, each occurring in different ocean gyres. Super cool little critters!
When talking in metric, multiplications of a unit usually go in 1000s. 1000 microns is 1mm, 1000mm is 1mtr and 1000mtr is 1km. It keeps the mathematics simple. That's why a lot of us don't use cm.
Most architects, engineers & drafting professionals all talk & notate in millimetres.
A decimal point in the wrong spot when building can cause havoc & profit losses.
A can of beer contains 375 millilitres or is it 37,5 centilitres🤔, not enough I reckon 🍻👍🇦🇺
@@SteveMcGrath-ip6df A bottle of beer is a pint. Two pints if it's a Big Henry! Lol
What's that in Eagles per Walmart parking lot?
Centimetres are probably only used for measuring peoples height waist and chest.
They used to be used for TV set and monitors, but we've gone back to using inches.
Only school teachers use centimetres, everyone else uses millimetres, metres, or kilometres. lol
That thing that isn’t a tiki torch looks like it used to be a hard polystyrene net float that has deteriorated over time. The steel part is probably a dropper so that the net it supports doesn’t float on the surface of the water and collect floating trash. The bottom of the net is weighted and the floats support the top of the net and keep it upright.
My cats have a super enclosure. They sleep on my bed, of course!!
Fun to watch, some funny ones in there.
Good cat parents keep their cats inside here in oz
Ours has never been outside and is afraid of the yard, which is good!
I think it’s a two-up tool its a game the soldiers play it on Anzac Day as they did during the First World War
Gotta love this channel
My dad was a steel fabricator, he would always say "centimeters are for dressmakers" if you want accuracy, always use millimeters" Whoever wrote that was a tradesman i reckon..
A slab of beer is a Carton of beer.Cheers🍻
Regarding using millimetres - it is also typical to use the 1,000 step units.. So when going up you would use kilo- & mega- and going down with milli-, micro-, nano- & pico-..
So normally measurements less that a metre will be in mm, weights less than a gram would be mg or µm, etc..
The low table is for a tent
Or upon which to place your picnic blanket and goodies to eat.
That’d work, too.
For real? That would be uncomfortable af if you rolled off your air mattress.
Also loved the- "That was fascinating! I didn't fully understand it though" so funny (from WA)
Regarding the 300mm comment.. the author is probably an engineer. We don't use centimetres. it's an unnecessary magnitude... just no one uses centilitres for volume or centigrams for mass.
Possums are incredibly common in suburban Melbourne...I live in Heidelberg, in the north-east, and see them every night. I have maybe 5 or 6 just living in the backyard alone. Very cute little fellas 😊
Ryan: "Can a lizard have no legs?"
Me, an Aussie: "This is going to blow your mind"
I've come across a few legless (I don't mean drunk) lizards & they do have legs but they are so small they can easily be missed
Cat once brought home a bearded dragon, still alive, and put it in the linen cupboard
Probably wanted a pet of his own 😅
@@skippy8696 her own, she was a hunter
The bottles are on the pipes to prevent possible injury on the sharp end of the pipes if anyone fell.
e.g. If you fell and hit your eye on the sharp end you'd be in serious trouble. Jenni QLD Aust.
"Wildlife people" in the US are too busy policing campaign rallies! 😅
Low bench for bachpacking. You can sit and rest without taking your pack off or rest pack there while you take a break. Saves putting pack all the way to ground. Hadn't heard about the mites. But possible. Would save leeches climbing on to pack also
Hi Ryan, tradies measure things to the mm. So when they talk about something being 2.4 m long, they would say "2,400 mil" (note that they don't waste time saying "millimetres"). This approach would then be transferred to measurements of things unrelated to building, such as junk found on the beach.
A tradie would actually call that “twenty-four hundred” without the ‘mil’
You are hilarious.
But also humble. 😂
Yeah little baby possums look like Dobby or smegle, then they get all fluffy and look like Gizmo
It's never a 'womb-erra' - it'[s a 'wumm-era). Also a space-statiion town in South Australia.
The “oo” in “woomera” rhymes with the “oo”in “good”, not in “food”.
I’ve never heard a rhyme for “woom” except in, “This parent wouldn’t voom if you put 4million volts through it!” I guess that reminds us it’s aboriginal, not English.
@@judithstrachan9399 Even though Kate Bush is a pommie she pronounces it correctly - ua-cam.com/video/M2Wa0LdCsvM/v-deo.html
That low table is to provide shade for snakes.
Put the food in the middle and sit around the edge. Keeps food off the ground
I have played Joker Poker. The rules were everyone paid $2 to be in the draw. If your name was picked from the draw, you got to pick a face down card. If it was 2-10 card, you won nothing and the money jackpotted. If you picked a picture card (jack, queen, king), you won $20. If you got an ace you won $40. If you picked the joker, you won the jackpot! The cards would then be shuffled and all turned face down again and you would start over.
The plastic pipes as an X is to determine people from walking on the grass. Probably temporarily as new lawn squares might have been laid. The plastic bottles make it more visible as the larger diameter bottles will catch the light better. The bottles also cover the ends of the pipe so less likelihood of any passer-by injuring themselves on the ends of the pipe.
HAHA! I didn’t know what a woo mirror was, until I realised it was an aboriginal word! It’s Woomera, as in woom-a-rah. Google it and watch a video of it in action. Woomera is also a township in South Australia. But I agree that the object is a wine bottle holder, it does nothing by itself, but insert the wine bottle and it’s perfectly balanced!
That pin at 7:40 is a sweetheart brooch from the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm
Accurate measurements use mm e.g. when building. So the size of a window would be quoted in mm. Perhaps the person was in the building or similar trade.
Or generally people who have made CAD files
It's for making fire, the fire painted on it is a dead give away 😂
the first one is chase the ace and there are several ways to play it
people in the trades like carpentry use only millimeters for instead of metres and centimetres for shorter measurments.
and engineering too
I'm not certain of the grid lines in that pic but some years ago a company wanted to install a similar looking grid of wires on some acres of my property. Apparenty geologists can use some equipment attached to them to see if the ground might contain valuable minerals or oil or whatever.
A slab is a case of beer
I never knowed that
@@ED54 , I knew, & I don’t drink.
Edit:
I guess I must have friends who do. I’ll sometimes call a cube of Coke a slab.
The blue dragon sea slug occurs in temperate and tropical waters of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, not just in Australia.
1:48 Womerra thrower... Think projectile Javelin holder!
24 cans in a plastic pack = slab (can be soft drinks or beer/bourbon) ....... 1 small bottle of beer = stubby, if you hear the term stubby holder, it's basically a can or small bottle holder you slide your drink into, which I believe Americans call them a koozie.
the grid line thing would have to be a mining company prospecting
millimetres are used for building and design and that kind of thing. most things in Bunnings are in millimetres and we all grew up there 😂
I grew up using The IMPERIAL System and I still don't fully understand the Metric System. Australia doesn't have Sidewalks. We have Nature=strips.The winged badge was from The Fleet Air Arm i.e. Aircraft Carriers. Wildlife including snakes are protected in Australia. At Donald wheat country in n.w. Victoria dad was about to shoot an Eagle and decided to never kill another thing.
the game is called chase the ace.
The cards in the pub I used to go was for a joker game. Every Friday.
At 10.20mins you comment on an animal, wondering what it is. It's a legless lizard. It has tiny useless legs (you can just see them in the photo) that are not used for walking any more. They are called vestigial legs. I remember many years ago when one came into my place and I had a brief heart-stopping moment thinking it was a baby snake, but I spotted the tiny legs so it was ok and not such a big deal, thank goodness.
With the metric system it is recomended that the units be in multiples of one thousand, so millimetres rather than centimetres, kilograms rather than hectograms. But some common terms like centimetres and hectopascals are in common public use while generally not so common in more technical uses like engineering and scientific fields. A civil engineer or architect might use metres and millimetres while a carpenter or metal fabricator might prefer to use metres and centimetres.
4:21
i always grew up thinking of possums as being pretty cute, slightly annoying but harmless (we had a few in our backyard). when i saw what US ones looked like for the first time i nearly had a heart attacks lmfaoooo. idk aussie possums can be more pesky in some areas than other
A SLAB is a carton containing four six-packs, so 24 cans of beer. We used to have a cat who liked ot catch brown snakes and tiger snakes, bring them home and drop them at our feet! Said snake was pretty p-d-off and looking for someone to bite by that stage.
As a former tradie, I can agree with the millimetre being more commonly used, but after I left the trade I was talking to a colleague without a trade, and they agreed, centimetre was harder to imagine mentally. It may seem strange, but 1,000th of something (in this case a metre) is easier to comprehend and do the math on that a 100th of the same thing. I studied my trade as we were moving away from the Imperial system, but know my father (also a tradie) would regularly refer to 1,000th of an inch more often than using fractions or some other option.
That looks more like a Ringtailed Possum than a Brushtail Possum. I found one in our yard a day or two ago that had fallen out of the tree.
We call the pub card game "chase the ace". As more weeks go by, the pot gets bigger. Usually a share goes to the venue or a charity, everything else goes to the winner. When the pot gets really full it can be quite a drawcard to the local sporting club. A few weeks ago a chase the ace was won at a local bowling club with 3 cards left, won $6,000. Not bad for a 50c ticket. It's a form of gambling that skirts the laws on gambling. Just something to draw punters in, might be live music Friday, chase the ace on Saturday.
That's a Nudibranch, same family as sea slugs. Some can be quite venomous. Rule of thumb, don't touch them. They are pretty critters tho.
Because the metric system requires almost no thought to convert between meters, centimeters, millimeters, dimensions, all are used, the unit usually signifys the level of accuracy required. 6m, 10mm either way is probably OK. 6000mm means 5999-6001mm. Most engineering drawings are done with mm. But because you don't have to mess around with thou, inch, ft, yard, mile conversions, it's usually easier to list everything in mm. It ends up being do I mark with chalk or a sharp pencil.
G'day Mate! Also on the use of millimetres rather than centimetres it is use din the trades like building carpentry etc etc as it is far more accurate and less likely to produce mistakes. There are no decimal points to accidentally get missed for example as well as when adding measurements together multiple decimal points can get really confusing... Cheers!
It was called Jag the Joker in our pub
Safer to sit on the platforms because of Bull Ants or Jumping Jack Ants that tend to be near water a bit. Both hurt like hell when bitten
Millimetres is a very accurate measurement. Centre metres is less accurate and then we can speak of ancient imperial measurements which are accurate in there own way but when measurements require tolerance values so low the millimetres or micro millimetres measurements are required for engineering excellence
Metric system is not just the best way to measure. You can tell a lot about a person by how they use it. People who speak in mm usually has a background building, construction or trade hands on work. The rest only use functional measurements, cm m etc.
Used to know the card board as "Chase the Ace" - and the idea was to get the Ace of Spades (sometimes with minor prizes for certain other cards). Often it's played *only* for the top card and jackpots each week it's not won.
To those of us who use the metric system it's common for people in industries that use fairly precise measurements like builders or draughtsmen to always talk in terms of millimeters rather than centimeters just out of habit.
To be fair: most Australians descended from the British convicts would't know what a woomera is either, it's an artifact of the indigenous people here.
Although most British decendance born before 1980 will know that it's a woomera.
@@paulbirtles2807 True, people turn to the easily corruptible Wikipedia for information these days, no one seems to go to the library or museum anymore.
You would use mm instead of cm as it is the standard unit of measure, especially if the person does any sort of engineering, wood/metal work, ect.
300mm 30cm) is the length of a school ruler
Chase the Ace is in most pubs in Western Australia, get a ticket in the draw every time you buy a drink on the night. Money jackpots each week until someone turns Ace of Spades.
Jag the Joker around Brisbane same rules. Jackpot each week these days is usually $100 most pubs but some still do $50
you should checkout the woomera & the Bull roarer !
Wed say 300mm over 30cm as the general unit of measurement for most measuring is in mm, say for putting together furniture or something. Mm is more professional as it's more accurate
300 mm is 30 cm which is 11.811 inches
Centimetres are a pretty useless measurement, millimetres go from 1mm to infinity, so simple!
@@SteveMcGrath-ip6df Yeah, if you use measurements for your job (construction, engineering etc.) nobody uses cm. It's μm (for very very small things), mm, m, or km.
I use millimeters because it makes me sound far bigger in some areas than I really am . ie 145lx 65 circumference?? see sounds better than 4.75 inches l x 2.5 inches circ.
no you are not stupid Ryan most Tradies (builders) talk in mm's it is 30cm's also we mostly use cm's when the thing is over a meter long we also use freedom units sometimes
Re: The grid lines: The aliens are mapping it! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Jenni QLD Aust.
That platform for picnicking would be housing a myriad of spiders, bugs etc I wouldn't dare sit on it.
We have a Lizzard here in Sweden without Legs it's Called A Coppersnake but it's a Lizzard
The deterrent to keep them off the grass seems legit. The grass in front of the pipes and bottles looks like it needs some TLC
I don't know how but i just realized he has multiple channels. How many does he have jeeeez
As an ex postie the pipes and bottles are to stop the postman riding on his lawn...😊
Dressmakers use cm, everyone else measures using mm.
I feel like I'm having a deja vu....
Millimetres are used in building and technical projects.
It's called chase the Ace
The stick is a wine bottle holder