Here in Australia (or at least Sydney) heights are invariably measured and written in centimetres, but *spoken* as if they were metres. For example I am "one seventy-five".
It isn't metric or imperial that drives me up the wall, but occasions when stupid pseudo-measurements are used when perfectly good units of volume and mass are available. For example, I was recently asked by my doctor to participate in a NSW Department Of Health survey, which asked me, among other even more deranged things, how many "cups" of fruit, vegetables and salad I ate each day. Cups? How the *bleep* do you measure a cup of apple, asparagus, lettuce or broccoli? Put it through a blender and reduce it to baby-food? Best regards, Robert Bryett On 28/10/2008, at 04:02 , Richard Bell wrote: > Meters are not useful for describing heights of people as the range > is almost entirely contained between one and two, while using feet > spreads the range to between four and eight. _______________________________________________ Gzg-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ground Zero Games" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gzg-group?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
