John, I don't see where we disagree. See below.
>> I didn't get the same interpretation as you did. Even though he wrote that "everyone on the street understands metrics", etc, etc., he "explained" that in his opinion this was a result of the large foreign population. >> OK, that works too! >>That he and others like him are being spoken to in metric by the intelligentsia. > Great!!! >>Almost as if he is saying the descendants of the earlier immigrants who grew up with FFU are being overwhelmed with metric. >> Super!!!! >> The foreign immigrants understand the metric and don't complain about it, whereas if they weren't here, the people like him would and it would be stopped. >> But they **ARE** here! >>Because the immigrants refuse to complain about the use of metric, he and his kind have to make an effort to understand it, but would prefer not to have to. >> A-A-A-A-W-W-W!! <sniffle-sniffle...> Nat
