John, I have deleted the 'boycott' sentence, included the FPLA issue and pointed at the cluttering of labels which FFU units cause. The placement of units was already part of the original message. EL also sells products for men anyway,
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2002-03-31 19:58 Subject: [USMA:19176] Re: Another assault on the once liquide > 2002-03-31 > > If I would have written her, I would not have gone beyond the topic of the first paragraph. After 18 months, why hasn't she petitioned the US congress to amend the FPLA so that the US and not the EU would "...demonstrate similar regulatory flexibility so that manufacturers have the option to use either metric only..." > > It is obvious from her statement that you have quoted here, that the EU is flexible in allowing metric only and metric/FFU at least for the next 7.75 years. It is the US that is not flexible. I think you need to dwell on this aspect as a priority. > > And as for the "once liquide" or what ever other FFU unit is placed on the label, why does it have to appear first? Why not in last place? Doesn't it strike her funny that FFU is inferior and nasty looking when you have to include a different language version of the same unit? What a clutter it adds to the label! If she is going to put the once liquide on her products, why not put the Spanish and Italian and German words for it too? And why not include the equivalent of floozy ozes in every language? I would think an intelligent person who see that there is something to metric when a term like 150 mL means the same thing in ALL LANGUAGES, and thus needs only be written once. Doesn't making the label less cluttered with all that FFU garble removed? > > > On another note, telling her your going to boycott her products is more likely to make her trash your e-mail. And seeing that you are a man, she is less likely to think of you as a customer anyway, unless you have a secret life we don't know about? > > John
