It was posted on the Metricsucks website by a BWMA member who posted it under my username.
His real name is Bryan Parry. I had no idea that the BWMA was linked to a neo-NAZI group. Could you provide more info? Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "David King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2004-06-30 19:15 Subject: [USMA:30262] Re: Metric Paramilitaries Ready to end Ceasefire. > I could only read the first part of it and felt sick. There are some > sick minds out there. The ironic thing about the Nazi link, is that > there are two political parties in the UK who have been described as or > linked with Nazis in the past due to their very racist policies, the > British National Party and the National Front, yet both are staunch > supporters of the Imperial system and haters of the Metric system. > > So to call the UKMA Nazis is the wrong way round. As a member of UKMA I > would like to point out that no one in the UKMA has ever shown any Nazi > tendencies on the official forum and that it is the supporters of > Imperial in the UK who are acting illegally with rampant acts of > vandalism of public and private property that displays anything in > metric, specifically the supporters and members of the BWMA, who are > also linked to a party called The Third Way (which is another name for > Nazis in some camps of thought). > > Where did you find this piece of idiotic writing? > > David > > > MightyChimp wrote: > > >FFU-ists are so distraught that metric has advanced so quickly in such a > >short time, they have resported to this type of anti-metric mimicry. > > > >euric > > > >The Day Today, broadcast May 25th 2004 > >Metric Paramilitaries Ready to end Ceasefire. > >============================================= > >UKMA (United Kingdom Metrication Assocation), the political wing of the > >paramilitary > >group METNOW (Metric Enforcement through Nazi Orientated Work) has justified > >the > >recent bombing of a shop in Bristol for selling rulers with inches on them. > >"By selling rulers with Inches on them this shop is promoting the systematic > >sexual > >abuse of young children", said Jonathon Bitterfucker, chief UKMA campaign > >organiser in > >charge of 'organised booing' at shops using imperial. After being reminded > >that it > >was possible that kids could have been in the shop at the time of the > >explosion Mr > >Bitterfucker spat in the interviewers face and ran down the street chanting > >"Metric > >Forever, I like chamois leather". He appeared to have a small mallet in his > >left hand. > >No-one was hurt in the blast as there was a tip off from locals who had > >spotted > >"anorak wearing men, stinking to high hell of body odour, acting > >suspiciously outside > >the shop" > >UKMA has been linked with METNOW since 1983 when it's sister organisation > >USMA (from > >the United States) started supplying funds through sources from America. At > >one stage > >it was even rumoured that MacDonalds was raising funds for the METNOW group > >but this > >has been rejected as scaremongering based upon a story that one of the > >quarter > >pounders being sold in an outlet in New York weighed marginally less than > >one quarter > >of a pound. Lesser educated metric fanatics and supporters of UKMA and USMA > >tried to > >see this as "being metric". A similar group, 'UAFAMA', (Under-Achievers for > >a Metric > >Australia) have tried to insist that vinyl records are metric based on a > >similar > >campaign in Australia. Eventually the group started shouting with hands over > >their > >ears as ordinary Australians tried to tell them the truth. Officially UAFAMA > >folded 3 > >months ago as it's one member could not capitalise on truthful interesting > >facts about > >metric but published absolute rubbish instead. ABC sources have told us that > >the > >mother of this one individual "grounded him" (sent him to his bedroom) for > >flashing > >his penis with a metric ruler at local girls while shouting "8 centimetres" > >over and > >over. > >After the shock of the exposion in Bristol a spokesman for METNOW has warned > >that more > >bombings could be on the way. METNOW declared a ceasefire in 2000 after new > >laws made > >it more difficult for people to say "ounce" and "inch" in the UK. However > >with the > >advent of people going about their business despite this ruling and even a > >major > >supermarket appearing to ignore the theme of this law it looks like METNOW > >could step > >up it's campaign and use bombs. > >"We found some semtex in county Cork", said the spokesman, "but we could not > >use it as > >it had "LB" on it which means "pounds". It would be hypocritical of us to > >use lesser > >semtex with silly "LB" on it yeah" he said, shaing his head violently. > >We asked him where METNOW had managed to obtain the "better" metric only > >bombs from > >and he absolutely denied outright to tell us his contacts but said "lets > >just say that > >we have links with a group on the other size of the world that's not New > >Zealand, > >South Africa or South America". > >In other related incidents it has been reported that members of METNOW have > >been in > >talks with Al-Qaeda and have been studying events of "9/11". And the > >studying they've > >done has given rise to "suicide drivers" driving cars at high speed into > >signposts > >with "yards" or "miles" on them. One driver was found dead at the wheel of > >his car > >after he had driven straight into a "Caution Danger Ahead 200 yds" sign. > >Inspectors > >found a satellite navigation system in his car and documents about the sign. > >They > >also found a note written by the driver detailing his actions precisely and > >signed off > >with "Metric is good", "Metric is great". Curiously he had replaced any > >knoves and > >forks in his car with plastic ones. > >UKMA have repeatedly condemed the actions of METNOW by saying that it was > >inevitable > >that these things would happen if people still had the right to use outdated > >measures. > >But reports show a more sinister reason for METNOW's involvement with UKMA. > >Four years ago the UKMA held a conference in Brighton where, for the first > >time, they > >invited not only members of UKMA but also supporters of metric and those "in > >favour" > >of metrication. UKMA leader Hugh jarss blames this change in pratice on the > >reason > >for closer links with METNOW today. On a key vote on whether UKMA should > >work more > >closely with METNOW the packed phone box voted 3 people in favour and 2 > >people against > >such a move. It was decided that after that meeting, only card carrying > >members of > >UKMA could attend future meetings. > >Last year the UKMA organised a successful march through a branch of Tesco in > >Norwich > >but controversially members of METNOW joined the march and the six strong > >demo > >included two individuals in balaclavas. While most of the demonstrators > >peacefully > >waved placards such as "metres and grammes, make your baby's prams" and > >"Yards and Miles can cause ruptured piles" there were more millitant > >individuals who hurled joints of beef at passers-by and yelled "you smell" > >to those ordering loose goods in audible imperial. Police had to arrest one > >"scrawny little" man who had spelled out "metric vagina better" in blocks of > >cheese that had been ripped out of wensleydale packets. The man was released > >later after accidentally describing himself as "5 foot 4 inches tall" and > >then crying. > >Bill Smith, a spokesman from FFroME (Freedom from Metric Extremists), a > >metric watchdog group, says that although they are concerned about > >activities involving bombs the public need not worry about METNOW members > >individually. "Most are geeky trainspotting types with whispy beards that > >have taken years to grow", he says, "they are usually easy to spot as they > >totally stink of body odour and urine and tend to salivate at anyone of the > >opposite sex. They are also eager to talk to you and drop in metric words at > >every opportunity, which is a bit of a give away". > >Apparently it is rare to even meet one of these people, as Bill went on to > >explain: > >"Most METNOW members never really leave their parents houses/dirty flats if > >they can avoid it. The main part of their campaign involves posting > >mis-information and distortion to message boards and online bulletin boards > >in an attempt to drive people away from those same boards, and while most > >are successful in boring people away some attempt to 'create a trail' by > >posting under different names, basically 'identity theft' or giving > >themselves 'handles' named after metric measurements, eg "metre", "kilo", > >"hector" etc. The ones that we worry about are those who might eventually go > >one step further and take their message to the streets armed with a mallet > >rather than jerk off in the confines of their own room posting stuff about > >rockets, kilometres and euros and the like." > >Nevertheless the public have been warned to be vigilant while out and about > >and while the threat of METNOW attacking again looms in the air people need > >to be on the lookout for anyone carrying a mallet and saying "metre" a lot. > >ENDS > > > > > > > > > >
