>Chris, > >This guy sounds like an American masquerading as a Englishman. > >But I must tell you, last week I attended a business luncheon where I was >seated next to an Englishman who was a guest. He was charming and seemingly >intelligent. From the conversation I think he had quite a high-paying job. >Toward the end of the meeting I asked if he knew how the Sotherby issue was >progressing. Wow! He launched into a tirade about how foolish the UK was to >let the EU run its domestic affairs and foist the metric system upon you. I >was stunned because on other topics he seemed so modern and knowledgeable. What I find most incredible about this sort of reaction is that it's taking place so far into the process; I could understand it more if it had just been announced that we were to go metric. When I went to university I was told it wasn't so I could be spoon-fed information, it was to learn how to think and find information for myself. This chap apparently can't even find out world population figures for himself! Thanks to all suggestions on this. I'll try to encapsulate them all in a reply. -- Chris KEENAN UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/ UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
