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Thread: Why do the Brits say 10x8 and 5x4?

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    Re: Why do the Brits say 10x8 and 5x4?

    Quote Originally Posted by Rob Champagne View Post
    This has become a very popular idea. Locally to where I live there is calendar of nude farmers and there have been many others country wide. Infact there has just been one in the news today. What ever floats your boat...
    Nudity for charity
    But were they painted blue?
    "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White

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    Re: Why do the Brits say 10x8 and 5x4?

    Quote Originally Posted by John Kasaian View Post
    But were they painted blue?
    don't know but apparently she can do a neat trick drawing a shamrock leaf in the head of your guinness.

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    Re: Why do the Brits say 10x8 and 5x4?

    Quote Originally Posted by CantikFotos View Post
    There'll always be a big island off the coast of France.
    This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
    This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
    This other Eden, demi-paradise,
    This fortress built by Nature for herself
    Against infection and the hand of war,
    This happy breed of men, this little world,
    This precious stone set in the silver sea,
    Which serves it in the office of a wall
    Or as a moat defensive to a house,
    Against the envy of less happier lands,
    This blessed plot, this earth,
    This realm, this England!

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    Re: Why do the Brits say 10x8 and 5x4?

    When a window is specified by an architect on a plan or drafting, it's the width first then the height.

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    Re: Why do the Brits say 10x8 and 5x4?

    If you're reading this in England don't mention football, not this morning. Still, we'll have a new manager by lunchtime and the World Cup will be ours! Rob when I read that I can understand why the rest of Europe wants to come and live here. Nice.
    Pete.

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    Re: Why do the Brits say 10x8 and 5x4?

    Quote Originally Posted by Alan Davenport View Post
    Yes but only when it's on the groundglass cobber!
    When we print it we call it 5x4 if it is landscape and 4x5 if it's a portrait.
    Same with 8x10 or 10x8 don't know what we call it it if it's a crop
    Crikey!! do we have to teach you chaps everything cheers Gary

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    Re: Why do the Brits say 10x8 and 5x4?

    Quote Originally Posted by Pete Watkins View Post
    Rob when I read that I can understand why the rest of Europe wants to come and live here. Nice.
    Pete.
    Well you should some more of it. It's by some bloke called William Shakespeare - Richard II.

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    Re: Why do the Brits say 10x8 and 5x4?

    "Hell is where the police are German and the cooks are English"
    - Colin Fletcher (RIP)

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    Re: Why do the Brits say 10x8 and 5x4?

    Quote Originally Posted by Turner Reich View Post
    When a window is specified by an architect on a plan or drafting, it's the width first then the height.
    What if it`s a square window?

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    Re: Why do the Brits say 10x8 and 5x4?

    Quote Originally Posted by Walter Calahan View Post
    Why do Americans say 4x5 and 8x10?
    Because we use the length by width (by height by depth) formula sequence. Measurements listed will always be in that order, film or otherwise.

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