Re the website below, those older folk who made a lot of noise either are long gone or quite happily buying their meat in grams or kilos because they're used to it by now.
It takes a generation for resistance movements to fade away. That's why the US MUST under all circumstances teach all children at US schools without any reference to ifp, and use SI only. This gets the mentality right for 25 years time. Otherwise you'll be waiting longer. Regards Mike Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Wentworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 2:06 PM Subject: [USMA:21774] Re: Australian Comments From: kilopascal <From the distant past: http://www.shaunf.dircon.co.uk/shaun/metrology/australia.html > That collection of columns is very revealing, because it shows the "franco-phobic" attitude that seems to underlie much of the resistance to metric among English-speaking people. In "We're Halfway to Lunacy" (The Bulletin, 25/1/75), I found this gem: "I for one am ready to say. firmly that things would have been a lot better for us all had the Gauls stayed barefoot." In America, substitute "Those Euro-snobs" or "Those snooty Europeans" for "Gauls," and you have the same anti-metric attitude. -- Jason
