[USMA:29740] Re: Run a mile

[MightyChimp]

Response: You are getting all excited over a one-time event? How much time per day do you spend looking for obscure, remnant, and legacy uses of FFU? I want to read about industries that use FFU. I want to hear about those point of sale scales in the supermarkets in FFU. I want to hear about petrol being sold in gallons and not litres. And weather forecasts on EVERY or the MAJORITY of news services, not just one or two. I want proof that a MAJORITY of the UK economy is not metric. Every time you post something like this all it proves is that I am right. All you can find is some one-time, obscure, legacy usage. Everyime I ask you major uses, you never can provide examples. You either ignore the issue or change the subject to distract people from the question. I challenge you to provide me with major examples of things that really count.     ----- Original Message ----- From: MightyChimp To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Monday, 2004-05-10 17:51 Subject: [USMA:29722] Run a mile   Euric, Can you advise me on an issue we have here in the UK. There is this campaign going on for a charity "Run a mile" thing. It's all over the papers and the BBC keeps going on about it. You can see it here: http://www.sportrelief.com/ Is there anything we can do to make them say kilometre? What we could do is do what we did with the marathon - ie just take its length and say it in kilometres, regardless of wht it really is. What's the equivelent of one mile in km? We could then bring the website up and simply tip-ex the "mile" out and put the km in instead. And then do that on the millions of screens being used by millions of people. What do you reckon? After all "The UK is a metric country"