decent letter I am excited for their response! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 4:39 PM Subject: [USMA:21801] Letter to Discovery Channel
> Below is an e-mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] today. Floods of these > kinds of comments to these blind filmmakers will speed up the metrication > process in the US. Go to it. > > > > Sirs, > > How disappointing that Stephen Baldwin, the narrator of Power Zone (a > Discovery Channel documentary about satellites and the ski dome in Tokyo) > used only your customary units to describe all the measurements and > dimensions in it. > > It's hard to imagine in this day and age that you Americans are completely > blind to what's going on in the world right now, and, worse, that you're > all so arrogant that you really don't care what people think about you. > > How can you possibly carry on like this, not even realising that you're the > last country in the world to use the metric system? > > Your documentary was completely spoilt because of the use of measures that > only people within your country can understand. What's the point in sending > your documentaries outside the US if no-one can understand them? > > People like you should not be perpetuating the acute embarrassment caused > to your countrymen every time you show scientific documentaries like this > by using an antiquated and dead system of measures. > > It's really time you do something and ask your film producers to use metric > measurements. EVERYONE (including Americans) can then understand what > you're talking about. > > This is the 21st century in case you don't realise it, and at present > you're alone in a metric world. > > No more 'feet' and 'Fahrenheit please. Our kids don't want to know. > > Sincerely, > > Mike Joy > Perth, Australia > cc: US Metric Association listserv. >
