Chris, Well that's fine, I suppose. Calling an arbitary size a 'pint' is OK if it means appeasing the Flintstones. Anything to get them off our back so we can get on with the real job of metricating USA/UK.
Regards Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 2:47 PM Subject: [USMA:21848] Re: Dual milk labeling On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:41:36 +0800, "Mike Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Chris & Markus, > >Regarding 'pints', in Australia/NZ, when we go into a bar for a beer, we >ask for a 'midi' or a 'schooner'. These are two glass sizes. The word >'pint' isn't used as a measure but as an approximate glass size. > >BWMA folk who poke fun and say 'I suppose we'll have to say "Give me a >568ml of beer please"' just show their ignorance and immaturity. > >The word 'pint' will continue to be used in the UK, but only as a name of a >glass size, which of course has to be of a pre-defined ml value. > >Mike >Perth, Australia The UKMA has an Australian member and one who was brought up in Australia. They report the existence of a 600 ml 'pint'. We have had some discussions whether we should recommend that instead of going to 500 ml. Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
