Sounds like another journalist is upset that the whole world is metric and doesn't seem interested in accommodating Americans in their difference. The frustration must be irritating to the point that the author had to take such a mocking tone.
Maybe the problem is her attempt to relate the quarter-pounder to kilogram and not the gram. Her lack of understanding of the metric system didn't give her power to see that the 0.1 kg could just as easily be expressed as 100 g and that sounds much more then a quarter of anything in FFU. Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nat Hager III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2004-03-19 18:13 Subject: [USMA:29241] RE: Have I been taken off list? No you haven't. > Well, then let's stir the pot a bit.... > > http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20040320cz.htm > > Nat > > <snip>.... > > The biggest problem with the Japanese copying America's bad eating > habits, however, is that we fear they will find out one of our darkest > secrets -- the one about why we haven't converted to the metric system. > Metric measurements are, quite simply, too small for our tastes. How > could we live without being able to buy a gallon of buttered popcorn at > the movie theater? > > Imagine a McDonald's Quarter Pounder with cheese being, instead, a 0.1 > Kilogrammer with cheese. That's microscopic! > > And of course, more fundamentally, the metric system doesn't include > handfuls, shots of tequila or pitchers of beer. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bill Potts > Sent: Friday, 2004 March 19 13:49 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:29240] RE: Have I been taken off list? No you haven't. > > > Don Hillger has assured me that all is normal with the list server. > > I think it's just that everyone fell asleep (or something). > > Bill Potts, CMS > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Behalf Of Stephen Davis > >Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:44 > >To: U.S. Metric Association > >Subject: [USMA:29239] Have I been taken off list? > > > > > >I haven't received any emails from the USMA mailing list for about > >two days now! > > > >Has the email address changed or have I been taken off the list? > > > >Regards, > > > >Steve. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >
