Yes, I agree totally! Down with soft metric! The time is long overdue for
hard metricating soccer. It is not British anymore. These 15 cm should be
clipped off. And the hurdles used in athletics should be changed too; they
are still a yard high, expressed as 91.4 cm. Make them 90 cm exactly!
Soft metric is used by the enemy to make people believe that metric is
unworkable and stupid. You can find this in their arguments time and time
again. It can and will force supporters of metric to use ifp because of the
horrible numerical values soft metric entails, whch can lead to costly
errors. And the latter are ammunition for F2M, BWMA, etc.
Han
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Von: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gesendet: dinsdag 7 november 2000 00:51
Betreff: [USMA:9042] Re: sports rules
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:07:46 kilopascal wrote:
> >2000-11-06
> >
> >I don't know enough about football to say if a change from 9.15 m to 10 m
is critical or not.
>
> Well, John, I do... And I can assure you it ISN'T! Actually no one goes
around with a metric tape measuring the distance from the ball to the human
barrier. It's all done quite arbitrarily in real life by referees.
Therefore, no harm would be done by simply cutting that value to 9 or
extending it to 10 (my preferred choice).
>
> >... I just feel the 15 cm is useless nonsense.
> >...
> And I completely agree with that!!!
>
> Marcus
>
