----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2001-03-11 17:27 Subject: [ukma] (fwd) Re: Metric nazis out in force > It would be nice if some list members could join in the following > discussion on usenet: > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:55:35 +0000, in talk.politics.european-union > Marc Living <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:31:10 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>>So even kids whose parents were educated in the metric system are > >>>still using (at least some) imperial units in every day life. Ask a 10 > >>>year old how tall their father is...the answer won't be 1.8 metres. > > > >>As his father will likely not know it in metric, that's hardly > >>surprising. > > > >Most parents of a school age child will themselves have had a wholly > >metric maths environment at school. > > > >>This only shows the problem with allowing the conversion > >>process to be so protracted. > > > >No it doesn't. It shows that people have no desire to use metric even > >when it has been shoved down their throats, and that the only answer > >which comes from the High priests of the great God "Metric" is that it > >should have been shoved down their throats harder and quicker. > > > >Here's a radical idea. Why not simply allow people to continue to use > >a system which is perfectly serviceable, and which they show > >absolutely no desire to abandon? (And which, on the contrary, they > >clearly prefer to the one you wish to impose.) > > > >>Australia (among others) converted > >>practically overnight; now they don't understand why we're still > >>dithering. > > > >Who gives a monkeys what the Australians did? > > > > > >-- > >Marc Living (remove "BOUNCEBACK." to reply)
