[USMA:22945] RE: Canadian ifp spam

[kilopascal]

2002-10-26   I don't believe this reasoning.  That is more likely the excuse given to justify continuing with old units.  There could be more practical reasons, such as the media continues to use it and people want to compare themselves with sex symbols.  If the sex symbols switched to SI only and made it appear that real sexy people use SI and only duds and losers used fFU , you'd see a switch over-night.   Other reasons is that clothing sizes are still in FFU and tape measures are still available in FFU.  Get rid of the inch sizing and tape measures and you will also see a switch to SI.  Oh sure, people will back convert for awhile, but eventually it will become a tiring nuisance and the practice will end.   As long as it is easy to use FFU, the practice will continue.  Make it difficult, and the practice will end.   John   ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Saturday, 2002-10-26 11:53 Subject: [USMA:22943] RE: Canadian ifp spam In a message dated 2002-10-26 04:51:36 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >19 and yet so oldfashioned; clinging to medieval trash, while forgetting >what she learned at school. She must really be anti-metric to the core. I >have already trashed her spam. > >Han >Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands If it means anything, the personals ads I've seen in Canadian newspapers all give wombat measurements for the posters.  So, too, do the birth announcements.  For some reason people still want to compare themselves or their babies to their ancestors.  Culture with regard to body measurements dies really, really hard. Carleton P.S.  How do you express "DD" in SI?