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2002-09-08
Metric is used in these films and in this context because that is the
reality. It would be foolish to use old units when they are not
encountered in real life.
Keep in mind, if there was a real anti-metric attitude among the British,
they you would see massive street protests. But, you don't. Just
because the BWMA and the anti-metric media twist the facts and make it appear
so, doesn't mean it really is.
I'm sure most British are not frightened by the prospect of Britain being
entirely metric in the next ten years. Only the old empirists are making
an issue of it where none exists. As they die off, imperial will die with
them.
It is the USA that you really have to worry about. They will resist
longer and make an even greater effort to sabotage metric usage anywhere in the
world.
John
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