On Monday 05 Jul 2004 19:25, H. Maenen wrote: > I hope that you have enjoyed the Fourth of July. It was celebrated at the > Castlebar Walks as well, as there are alway Americvan participaants. Yjr > Castlebar Four Days Walks are metric. Distances are 10, 20 and 40 km, and > there is across country walk of 30 km. At present I am in Dublin. I have > seen that it is not as rosy as I thought in the property business as I > thought. For office space the square metre is used very often, but when it > is about land and houses the square foot and the acre still rule supreme. > As houses are often built in ribbon developments in the countryside, the > realtors also give the distance to the nearby city or town: in miles. (This > kind of planning will turn Ireland within 20 years into one big monstrous > housing estate: its opponents call it bungalow blight, its supporters > simply say: 'You can't eat scenery', and so they destroy it.) I wonder > whether the realtors will give distances to towns in kilometres when the > speed limits have gone metric. Butchers are now starting to give prices per > kilogram; the price per pound is added. The large Irish producer of cider, > Bulmers, has stopped with its anti-metric ads for cider. They no longer try > to convince people that it is a privilege to drink cider not in metric > glasses, but in pint glasses. Han
Two small points, Han. We (UK & Ireland) call them 'estate agents'. And Bulmers is a UK company. -- Chris KEENAN UK Metric Assoc.: metric.org.uk
