They are from the metricsucks site. I was hoping some of you would come up with some clever responses that I could repost back.
Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian J White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2004-05-10 17:53 Subject: [USMA:29725] Re: Swim a mile Euric? What the heck is this crap you keep forwarding to the list? My god man....stop! At 14:50 2004-05-10, MightyChimp wrote: > > >Euric, > >I call on your superior advice yet again (sorry about this). > >My local health authority is doing a "Swim a mile" competition. I need to >contact them to tell them that "The UK is a metric country" and inform >them that "only old people know imperial". > >I should tell them to change the competition so that it says the well >used, often quoted and correcly pronounced "kilometre" instead of the >redundant "mile" that no-one uses. > >What I fear is that with so many kids and young people getting involved >they might all start using "mile" in their day to day speach. > >The swimming pool itself is definetly metric because its "olympic length" >and so any enthusiast could come along and use a tape measure down its >length to measure its in nice round �m. And maybe go for a swim too. > >However I was horrified to see the depth expressed on shiny new signs in >feet and inches (with metric underneath, smaller). Considering "The UK is >a metric country" why do they think that kids will know their height in >ft/in? Of course they don't! That's about as likely as an Australian >surfer measuring his surfboard in inches! > >We need to prevent this small outbreak of imperial measures, so I'd like >your advice on how to do this.
