On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:59:31
Joseph B. Reid wrote:
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>
>Marcus lives in Canada, where progress to complete metrication is
>stalled, waiting for the USA to catch up. Jim lives the USA where
>conversion to the metric system is taking place, however slowly.
>...
Actually my perception is worse than the above description. Perhaps it's the province
I live, but I don't think so since when I visited Toronto recently I've noticed a very
similar situation.
Canada's progress hasn't actually 'stalled' but rather backslid *significantly*!!! I
used to see metric data in the news for people's info. Now? No more! I used to hear
practically ONLY kilometers around. Now? Quite a bit of the stupid mile crap! I
used to NEVER hear Fahrenheit temperatures. Now? I do hear it on occasion! (And NO,
I'm not talking about cooking temperatures!!!)
I used to see some products with round metric package sizes reverting back to round
imperial ones (like coconut milk cans that used to come as nice 400 mL and now they're
398 mL; plus the classic fight I had with SoyWorld on their 2 L carton of So Good soya
milk, which is now a round 2 qt crap AND with the label in imperial - it wasn't there
before!).
Also, I rarely saw products WITHOUT metric labels, especially produce. Now? I see
quite a few of these with ridiculous pints, dry pints, even bushels or something like
that!
So... I'm sick and tired of this situation. In addition more and more of our young
continue to shift to imperial talking, even the very young! And more and more of
local supermarkets are "forgetting" to post kg prices ALTOGETHER (like Coop) in the
produce section ("farmer markets" are a lot worse with this one!).
Anyhow... Enough ranting... I'll go fly my kite now... :-(
Marcus
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