A letter to New Scientist magazine...
Nat
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opletters.jsp?id=ns230918
Feedback reports on a requirement for "a minimum of .017 cubic metres of
concrete" (8 September). This kind of thing is not uncommon.
It seems to me that there are three kinds of people in Britain. There are
those who use the metric system happily and sensibly; those who use it
crassly, probably out of resentment at having to use it for some particular
purpose; and those who won't use it at all.
I sometimes wonder whether attitudes to the adoption of the euro fit the
same pattern.
Quintin Davis
Leatherhead
Surrey
