Leopnardo (and all),
Things like that make my blood boil and raise my temperature to 100 degrees
Celsius. This is another ifp intrusion into metric countries. The use of the
Italian language and English pounds without any metric at all on a label is
an outrage. Maybe you could contact the producer of these weights, and ask
him the reason for committing this folly. I would surely boycott such
products. The producer should explain what is wrong about using metric units
for these weights. Are they stark raving mad? This (and things like the
European Community therm, which should be called the UK therm) is ammunition
for the BWMA and Inch Perfect.
Han
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leonardo Boselli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: dinsdag 2 januari 2001 23:26
Subject: [USMA:10169] New millennium metric tale (true, unfortunately)
> Date: 2 january 2001
> Time: 2137 local (GMT+1)
> Place: A shopping center near Pisa
>
> My wife was looking for ankle weights for gyms. We found only 0.5 kg or 1
lb ones, that was too small, or 1 kg or 2.5 lb that looked to her too heavy
(we found also 10 lb that was surely too heavy) . Some shops had weights,
british or chinese produced in lb, only one had the ones in kg (european
produced).
She looked for a 750-800g one.
> Most shops listed a 3/2 lb one so with 680g could more or less fit the
needs, but every one did not had them on the shelves. At end of the day,
three minutes before closing the shop, we found a new shelf, piled with
boxes of different size labeled "Fasce per
polsi/caviglie 3LB" or "Fasce per polsi/caviglie 5LB" *Weight belts for
wrist/ankles 3lb" or "...5lb" .
> I got one but looked a bit lighter, other heavier ... most carried the tag
"3lb" and the larger ones were actually heavier than the ones carriyng the
5LB label !
> I asked the salesman, i give him two boxes, one for each hand, and asked
why bot were labeled 3lb ...
> He replied that he do not know how much was a british pound, and called
another girl.
> She said that they had no scales in the shop , and that she has slept only
3 hours in the night .... and she thought 1 pound should e about 1100g,
anyway .
> I told them that they could be justified if they was not able to weight a
thing by hand, and also that they did not know how many g were 5 lb , but
they should have esaily noted that was not possible that a belt labeled 3LB
(real: 8 lb) was much heavier than
another labeled 5 (true) and even more than others labeled 3 (real 1kg).
> You could not know how much are 5lb, but even if you did not sleep you
should know that 5 are heavier than 3 ! when i told this he replied ... "but
i am not sure how much is a pound"
> ifp or new year diner problem ???
> Leonardo Boselli
> nucleo informatico e telematico
> Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
> Universita` di Firenze
> V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze
> tel +39()0554796431 fax +39()055495333
> http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
