timconard's Journal, 16 March 2014

Wow when I think about those Inches in terms I can understand, you just dropped from the size of my dad to the size of my younger brother in just 3 months, thats shocking to me! Well done! Great results! :) 

That is fantastic! You know you're doing well when you shed inches that way! 

Vow ! Great achievement 

wow great job 

Keep up the good work. 

Great news! :) What you are doing is definitely working! 

Awesome! That's about 4 pant sizes, right? While I know that should benefit your joints a lot, I imagine your wallet will appreciate the slimmer size also. At least from shopping with DH I noticed that the price for pants seems to go up a bit when you go beyond L or XL. (I think XXL and up were $5 more per pair than the smaller sizes.) Congrats! :) 

Wow!!! That's an incredible shift in pant-size. WTG, sir!!! :D You're doing FANTASTIC!  

Since I'm used to the metric system and am not very familiarized with inches, I hadn't realized how big that change was until I saw other comments. That's really great! :) 

Euheide, I often wish I could switch to the metric system. I'm American and used to the other system, which is absolutely retarded IMO. It's inconsistent, arbitrary, absurd, etc. Metric is base 10, which is so simple and easy to understand, but because I don't know necessarily how to remember the different calculations for weight or volume conversion I often feel stuck with an inferior standard. :( 

That's great! 

WOOOOHOOOOO :D *That's* how it's done! Keep it strong Tim!((fist pump)) 

I didn't know that MrsTofu! I can definitely agree the metric system is simple. I tried reading inches once but I just had to give up. I have to try to learn it on YouTube some day heheheh :D 

Whenever I have to translate cm to inches, I just use the online converters. I don't dare convert it myself ;) 

Mrs tofu, they tried switching everything to metric and the 24 hour clock back in the 70's it didn't go over very well. It does get confusing here because some things are in liters because of that that attempt. Tim, great progress!! 

That's very interesting Wholefoodnut! So that's why some things are metric while others use the English system there :) 

It left weird mix of measurements behind. It's great fun trying to figure out which set of sockets or wrenches to use I have both metric and American. Grrr. I do a lot of my own work on my house etc.  

At least with automechanics, I know domestic (US made) tend to be based on standard/ SAE while import generally use metric. However...there's also situations where it seems the manufacturer makes their own proprietary equipment. My hubby used to do more work on cars as a hobby and does MOST of the maintenance on his own cars still. He has an older--between 10-15 years old (which is almost the newest car he's ever owned and is the newest currently owned) BMW sedan. When he first started working on BMW for himself and friends he found that SOME of the nuts they used were BETWEEN standard SAE and metric sizes, so he deliberately warped a cheap set of wrenches in order to do the work. The funny thing is with import vs domestic cars, if you really want a USA made car you should buy Honda or Toyota since THEIR plants are stateside. I think the GM plants are based in Mexico or Brazil. :P (VINs have location of origin codes to identify the place of manufacture. For instance, I think Japan is 1, so Toyotas or Mazda VINs may start JMF1...) 

Tis a bit crazy. I was replacing my kitchen Faucet and kept having to switch between American an metric. The actual plumbing is American sizes and the faucet mostly metric but the connection on the faucet was American. Totally goofy