I know that rural roads are generally narrower, but I'm highly amused
that you would think that horse drawn traffic is common anywhere in this
country. This is pigs-in-the-parlor mythology, and it is no nearer the
truth than the notion that Wales is overrun by gangs of men roaming across
the valleys terrorizing tourists with their close harmony singing.
I'm sure I said "don't get me wrong" and showed a more idyllic
non-monolithical rural country than the increasingly urban UK.
I'd prefer to see horses walking wild than slabs of concrete.
If Canada and Australia -- countries
far more vast than either of ours -- could do it over a bank holiday
weekend, I don't see why it would be beyond British ingenuity.
I wasn't referring to size - I was referring to density.
On a metric odometer, you can read off 100 m intervals.
But do people really "go that low"? I visualise yards on the road. I don't
need to have them counted for me. Miles (and presumably km) are far more
relevent to travel IMHO
I've seen speedos with no tenths of a mile on the mileometer.
An imperial
one allows you read off 1/10 mile, but that's not much use if the short
term units are yards.
The lowest I will go is "5" - which is half a mile. I guess thirds and
quarters would be usable too. I see no use in going lower than that,
When I claim mileage for work purposes I've never found myself claiming 30
miles and 300 yards.
I'm sure metric users round to km too.
>I could be snobbish and say that, being one of the wealthiest
euro-nations,
>they should adapt to us! But I won't!
Just as well. at G$1727 you marginally outscore France and Italy, but
Germany's G$2178 is greater. Since the EU15 is G$10219, the UK is about
a sixth of that, so how do you figure that *everyone* else should adapt
to you ? This smacks of the famous "Channel fogbound - Europe isolated"
British headline.
I thought Irish sense of homour was almost identical to British?
Didn't you see that I put a "I could be snobbish" starter there? I'm sure I
was doising up a bit of irony.
BTW - not to get bogged down myself - but Germany is a much bigger country
than us! However - check which direction our respective economies are
going.....
>I would counter all arguments with one.
>Would it be worth just one life being ended as a result of an accident
>related to changing signs, just to say "there, all the signs are metric
like
>they should be".
That logic could be used to impose an overall 50 km/h (30MPH) limit
....snip....
I've argued this hypothetical situation for years.
Nothing's changed.
It's damn hard to argue on the line of "look! if we changed our signs then
the situation pre-change could be better but it hasn't happened etc etc". I
hope you undestand where I come from .
