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Well, the main thing that got me into supporting metrication
was the Metric Martyr's campaign!!
It rankled with me that they were trying to turn what is in
fact a grossly trivial issue and portray it as something that was an affront to
our democracy and another example of the EU taking over our way of life when it
was patently nothing of the sort!!
I realised at the time people in this country had bought
things in metric measures with no complaint for years!! I had not seen
things like bottles of lemonade and bars of chocolate in imperial measures since
I was a young boy!!
It was also obvious to me this campaign was an attack on
Europe and was backed by right wing campaigners who were seen burning the EU
flag on television!!
I wrote a few letters to my local paper lambasting the
absurdity of this campaign!! I would have left it at that if Mr Neil
Herron didn't have the temerity to dig out my 'phone number and proceed to argue
with me over my opinions in the paper!!
This led me to dig out as many facts that I could muster to
prove that this was a dishonest and misleading campaign!! All this gave me
an insight into the metric history of Britain and how easy to use metric
actually was!!
Up until a year or so ago, I use to think in imperial
but, after discovering that it is easier to use than I first thought, I
have become a bit of a convert!!
The fact is, apart from our road signs on public
roads which have to be in yards and miles and the preservation of the pint,
loose goods are the only real preserve of the use of the pound and the ounce;
and many people who shop at markets tend to by number anyway, not by
weight!!
Nobody mourned the passing of the gallon or the bushel and
peck, so why all the artificial fuss over the pound and ounce??
Regards,
Steve.
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- [USMA:17458] question to all of you! Wizard of OS
- Stephen Davis
