Hi there,
I think sports are exempt as the Canadians still play
football in yards and horse race tracks are still in furlongs.
As for killing off the pint, now that's a fair fight.
On occasion, 3 or 4 of them can get together and strike first.
Gordon Keen writes:
> Hi M
>
> Despite what they say the people often choose to ignore such devices as
> kilos or metres. In Germany it is not uncommon to hear a housefrau
> asking for ein pfund of erdbeeren but she gets just under half a kilo of
> strawberries!
>
> The French, no don't get me started on the French, have all sorts of
> weird units that get used in trade or in markets and it always seems to
> be in their favour - strange that.
>
> We have a whole parcel of so called metric martyrs who have been up
> before the bench for selling fruit and veg in pounds and there's going to
> be a riot when the try to kill off the pint!
>
> Cheers
>
> G
>
> From Bridgerule in glorious Devon, England.
>
> On 29 May 2012, at 13:52, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> > If things had gone a little differently, the United
> > states might have gone metric 40 or 50 years ago. Instead, we
> > find ourselves in the distinguished company of Burma and Liberia
> > as the only 3 nations in the world who aren't metric.
> >
> > It's odd because the United States was one of 17 world
> > nations in the 1800's who signed an agreement promoting the
> > metric system which now goes under the abbreviation of SI or
> > System International.
> >
> > If you live here, you do see metric values all over the
> > place in a patchwork world in which grocery store shelves
> > contain 2-liter bottles of soda alongside 1-quart bottles of
> > bleach. Photography has always been metric as are most
> > scientific measurements unless you are talking about
> > temperature, distance or forces and then it is a free-for all.
> >
>
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