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I suspect that the issue at hand is how much
Imperial is used in everyday conversations between citizens (especially outside
of work). If there is still a fair bit (feet and inches for heights, pounds --
or even, horror of horrors, stones -- for mass, inches, feet, yards or miles
depending on the length involved), then the everyday "feel" will still be very
much Imperial. And if many television shows (including all US imports) are still
firmly planted in the world of Imperial (or its American cousin), then clearly
there is still a problem.
Ezra
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Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:35
AM
Subject: [USMA:30622] Re: UKMA
Questionnaire - answered by the BWMA
But apart from road signs and pints of beer in pubs, there
is little actually left in Britain that IS imperial, Han.
Pre-packaged goods have been SI for years. Spirits are
sold in metric measures. Nearly all of our industry uses SI measurements
because trying to measure small tolerances in the likes of binary fractions is
a pain in the backside.
In truth, there is only items sold loose that are actually
sold in pounds and ounces, any even they, as you are aware, have to be
supplemented by law with a more prominent metric measurement.
The BWMA are kidding themselves if they believe that this is
a mainly imperial using country. It isn't! Far from
it!
Regards,
Steve.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 1:18
PM
Subject: [USMA:30620] Re: UKMA
Questionnaire - answered by the BWMA
That is typical BWMA-stupidity. They make it appear that Britain has high
economic growth because of its use of ifp, while the present sluggisch
economic growth in The Netherlands, Germany and France is caused by the use
of SI in these countries.
The higher economic growth in Britain (and Ireland) is caused by their
adoption of the American social-economic model; France, Germany and The
Netherlands use the Rhineland model, a more 'social' type of capitalism,
which at present has the wind against it.. Strange that Ireland is going
metric and yet has high economic growth, isn't it BWMA?
Han
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Subject : [USMA:30619] UKMA
Questionnaire - answered by the BWMA
Tony
Bennett
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| Questionnaire |
August 3
2004, 1:01
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re: UKMA Questionnaire
Would you
like to see Britain
get out of the measurement unit mess?
YES, by
allowing the market to
revert to Imperial
use
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Would
you like to see your
children be able to use the units they are
taught in school?
NO. I'd
like them to learn both sets of
units
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Would
you like price
transparency through consistently labelled
quantities?
Er, I can think
of some other priorities ahead
of
that
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Would
you like to see
Britain be internationally competitive by using the
international system of
units?
Hardly, since over in France,
Germany and Holland, where they
already have S.I. units (and
something called the euro), they have
unemployment at up to 10%,
growth is non-existent, and inward investment way behind
Britain's
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Would
you like a safer
Britain using one single set of units?
On
the roads, yes - Imperial -
like 99.9% of the signs are already. I
wouldn't want any more Adam Doggetts of
this world to he stuck under
any more bridges signed illegally in metric units
- nor lorries banging
into an overhang because the height's been wrongly converted
to
metric
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Would
you like to see the
end of the ban on metric units on our roads,
footpaths and pubs?
NO. I'd
like to see the end of the ban
on selling loose goods in pounds and a posthumous
Royal Pardon for the
late Steve Thoburn
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NO. I'd like them to learn both sets of units
A comment on this answer:
Learning both systems is a BWMA trick. What
they hope is that people who are taught both systems will continue to
chose to use FFU and forget metric. They constantly make claims
about people who ran into trouble with metric by not knowing it despite it
being taught in the schools. Because once out of school, they
use only imperial. I find that hard to believe, especially if one
works in a metric industry and shops in a market where only metric
products exist..
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