Michael: If you want to participate in this list, with relevant and helpful comments, I see no problem with that.
However, I think you should spare us your juvenile rants and generalized insults. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma@;colostate.edu]On >Behalf Of Wizard of OS >Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 12:48 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:22872] Re: Pub fights beer stein ban > > >in my opinion, the people who are responsable for that crap DESERVE a head >shot, to relieve them from their stupidity > > >stupid nation! As we always asumed! > >no normal person drives on the left side or/and uses non-metric! >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 9:39 PM >Subject: [USMA:22871] Pub fights beer stein ban > > >For those who haven't seen it: > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2349813.stm > >You may also be interested in the story that appeared in Saturday's >Times: > >Litre of beer gets trader in hot water > >BRITAIN has a new and unexpected form of metric martyr, a trader >threatened With prosecution because she uses, rather than refuses, >metric measures. >The Metric Martyrs Defence Fund, hitherto devoted to the support of >British retailers refusing to abandon imperial pounds and ounces, >announced yesterday that it would rally to the cause Andrea Schultz, >who runs an Austrian theme restaurant in Worcester. Ms Schultz has run >foul of local trading standards officers because she sells beer in >one-litre stoneware mugs, as used in Bavaria and Austria. >She was also delighted to hear that Liberty, the human rights >organisation, has offered to defend her in the event of any legal >action. The United Kingdom's regulations require that fruit should be >sold in grams and kilograms and wine and water in litres and >centilitres, but draught beer in pints or fractions thereof. >Chris Keenan, chairman of the United Kingdom Metric Association, said >that UK regulations were anachronistic and inconsistent. >He said: "It is ridiculous that the British public buy petrol, orange >juice, wine, water and canned or bottled beer in litre-based >quantities but is forbidden to buy draught beer in anything other than >pints. The solution to the ridiculous situation Ms Schultz faces is >not to break the law but to reform it." Mr Keenan said that the >relevant European directive had always given Britain the freedom to >sell draught beer using litre measures. It was successive British >governments that had decided to keep a ban on litre-measures for sales >of draught beer and cider. >Among those who have fallen foul was Nigel France, of the Dolphin >Tavern, Slough. He was fined �3,100 plus �210 costs in August 1992 for >going metric. > > >-- >UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
