Dear Han and All,
It's a bit of a waste of time responding to this rubbish, but I couldn't
help myself, and I have interspersed some remarks.
on 2001-03-03 19.23, Han Maenen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I found this message about Australia and the crazy answer of an American
> following. I wonder where the Bible says that ifp was ordained by God.
> I know that the Pyramidologists thought so too. They used passages about
> weiging and measuring in the Bible where Jewisg units were mentioned by
> name. They claimed that Imperial is directly derived from the biblical
> units, and so they misconstrued a condemnation of dishonest weighing and
> measuring into a condemnation of the metric system.
> I would ask them: Where does the Bible mention the BTU, the Fahrenheit
> scale, the slinch and the slug?
>
> At present it is impossible to answer posts at Google, you cannot counter
> the balderdash spouted there,
>
> Han
>
> Usenet search result 170 for metric system
> Search Result 170
> From: Norse Of Course ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Subject: Re: Warm Happy Thoughts
> Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
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> Date: 2000-12-21 15:04:03 PST
>
> "The Pikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:MOu06.751$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Let's see if I can make all you northerners jealous.
>
> Here in Australia it's just coming into summer. Temps in the High 90's for
> all you Americans that haven't learned the metric system yet. Average about
> 12 days of rain a year (way over that this year though). Winter temps rarely
> drop below 0c (32f).
I've been trying to figure where this person is writing from. Here in
Geelong we have just experienced the hottest (top daily temperatures from
about 30 °C to 42 °C) February on record. We are also in the midst of a four
year drought - our average rainfall is about 550 mm but it has varied around
300 mm to 400 mm for the last four years.
> And outside town there is NO SPEED LIMIT!!!!
This is not true of anywhere that I know. Outside towns speed limits are
either 100 km/h, or on a few of the major highways, 110 km/h.
> It's time
> to go to work (which is 27 km outside of town)
What, no conversion?
> and I hear my
> Blackbird calling my name. (I think I finally got it clean after that cow
> pie incident)
>
> Tom
>
> PS Oh yeah forgot to mention I was raised in Minnesota. (couldn't say grew
> up in Minnesota cause I haven't grown up yet.)
>
>
> Hmmm...High temps in the 90's...No speed limit...Low average
> rainfall....METRIC SYSTEM!?! NO WAY FELLA! I'm an American dammit and if it
> ain't measured the way God intended, I don't wanna have anything to do with
> it! (God created man, man has 2 feet, we use the "foot" as a measure of
> length THEREFORE AND VERILY AND LO AND BEHOLD, the metric system is ungodly)
Did god give us two chains, links, miles, yards, and chains as well? Not to
mention the other (80 odd) Olde Worlde measures.
> Uh oh, I just thought of something...Quick, someone tell me what 650 cubic
> centimeters is equal to in inches!
Why? Who cares that 'Norse of Course' doesn't know the difference between
volume and length.
Q What is an inch?
A 25.4 mm
Q What is 25.4 mm?
A 25.4 mm
An inch doesn't exist without millimetres - it needs them for its
definition. On the other hand metres and millimetres are defined in physical
terms - they do not need to know about inches.
> (I would say, YOU convert your stuff!!!)
As I said it's really a waste of time responding. I don't think that:
> Norse Of Course
is going to respond to any kind of modernity in the short term.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin CAMS
Geelong, Australia
