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Size Labels need to be More Specific
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:06 am
by BroCore92
Ok sooo I was able to get 2 pairs of 00g tapers and some plugs from my girlfriend and a friend of mine and i couldn't help but notice the difference in size between the tapers. one was at least a mm larger than the other one. I got one pair in... and then put the others in after. the stretch went well but I couldn't help but think how inconvenient this difference in size could be when buying body jewelery. That 1mm difference can make buying specific types of jewelery a big pain in the ass.
sorry for my rant. just thought this would be worth posting
Re: Size Labels need to be More Specific
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:47 pm
by corazon_de_oro
Yeah, some 00G is 9mm while others are 10mm... that's why I'm not a huge fan of the "gauge" system; it can make some people skip a size without even knowing it!
Re: Size Labels need to be More Specific
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:59 am
by StrickyCub
^^ Too true, it's why now when I shop for jewellery, I shop by millimetres and not by "gauge".
Re: Size Labels need to be More Specific
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:42 am
by twosharks
Of course if everyone just used the metric system everything would make more sense. Actually, dealing with body jewelry has given me a better grasp of the metric system. I can actually picture millimeters and centimeters, rather than mentally converting to fractions of an inch like I always would before.
Still can't picture a kilometer. What is it, some portion of a mile? Ten miles? No one knows.
Re: Size Labels need to be More Specific
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:12 pm
by StrickyCub
Lol twosharks. 1 kilometre is 1000 metres, a mile is around 1600 metres. So basically a kilometre is a bit less than 2/3rds of a mile.
Re: Size Labels need to be More Specific
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:51 am
by WeAreWormwood
It's stuff like this that makes me glad I'm from Ireland, in Europe everything is done in metric and it makes so much more sense, imperial measurements are ridiculous and outdated really.
Re: Size Labels need to be More Specific
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 1:05 am
by twosharks
WeAreWormwood wrote:It's stuff like this that makes me glad I'm from Ireland, in Europe everything is done in metric and it makes so much more sense, imperial measurements are ridiculous and outdated really.
Totally agree, as someone that's a slave to the imperial. Or "standard" as we tend to call it in the states, as though it's everyone else that's doing it wrong.
Stupid non-intuitive measurement systems...
Re: Size Labels need to be More Specific
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:55 am
by SusiHill
i do it in mm even though im in USA, i hate "guages" i call mine 12mm most of the time rather then 1/2'