The use of feet/inch for height measurements maybe common in countries formerly under British rule or in countries where the inch based clothes sizing system still persists. Funny how members of the BWMA will lobby against metrication on the grounds metric is not a part of the "culture", but it doesn't seem to bother them that their ancestors forced other cultures to give up their ancestral units and were forced to use imperial. Of course, according to the BWMA these people freely choose to use imperial, "proving" imperial is what the people really want and metric is forced down their throat.
Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2004-07-05 08:18 Subject: [USMA:30282] New Bangkok subway opened 7/03 > Display the link and read down into the text. > > You will note everything is SI -- except the height of the children! > > Carleton > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > --------- > > http://www.angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/Subway/index.shtml > > > >
