I'm going to show my ignorance here but I have to share it because it struck
me as so funny.
I've seen these biblical quotes before and never understood what was meant
by "divers weights".
Surely (I thought to myself) they didn't have aqualungs in them days! Or did
they? You never know - visions of Captain Nemo in Mysterious Island and his
funny looking underwater breathing contraption made out of a giant sea shell
sprang to mind :-)
However looking at this latest quote I decided to find out what it was. I
came across a web site that appeared to have modern translations - then it
dawned in me - it means *diverse* weights!!
That really cracked me up :-)
Phil Hall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Naughtin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:44 AM
Subject: [USMA:33049] RE: freight in UK
Dear All,
Or as the writers of the Bible put it in Deuteronomy 25:14
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
See:
<http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV2&byte=851672>
Or in Proverbs 20:10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to
the LORD.
See:
<http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV2&byte=2509340>
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Geelong, Australia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://metricationmatters.com
on 2005-06-02 09.29, Philip S Hall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No Dan. I must re-iterate for the benefit of non-UK posters here. Tesco
did
not revert to imperial.
They took advantage of the legal option to display dual prices (price/kg
+
price/lb) and started displaying large posters with imperial only prices
for
promotion on some products (but always showed a metric unit price near
the
products themselves).
They still weigh and sell in metric. They use metric scales at the deli
counter and the till receipts are metric only. They also operate in
metric
behind the scenes (inventory etc)
With pre-packed items they put dual weight (g/oz) on some of their
own-brand
chilled food products and put dual price labels on the packaged cuts of
meat
and fish. All other chilled food products (vast majority in fact) are as
the
original manufacturers label, i.e. in grams, they don't modify them.
Everywhere else they are metric except perhaps for clothing (Tesco aren't
just a supermarket, they're into practically everything which is why they
are so big).
Phil Hall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:19 PM
Subject: [USMA:33047] RE: freight in UK
Wouldn't reintroducing imperial after going metric be kind of expensive?
If you spent maybe a few million to change your scales and update your
inventory software, then you decide to change it all back seems the kind
of business practice that puts a company like Tesco out of business, not
increase their profits.
So is Tesco the only store that changed all their metric equipment back
to
imperial or were there others? Do they also sell pre-packaged goods in
imperial too or are those still metric? How long did it take them to
revert as they couldn't have changed all the equipment in all stores in
one day?
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 2005-06-01 05:16
Subject: [USMA:33036] RE: freight in UK
You mean like when Tesco 'sales figures' went up after the publicity
surrounding there decision to re-introduce imperial.
It certainly worked for me!
Well, add to that the fact that I moved home and the nearest
hypermarket
is under 2 miles away and is called "Tesco" ;-)
From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:33024] RE: freight in UK
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 20:25:43 +0100
When a company makes a change to its look or feel they sometimes send
out a
survey.
I've had loads of these.
I suspect that they don't do a similar thing with imperial measures
being removed because despite most people still using them in day to
day
life they feel that they "know what's best for us" on this one.
Or maybe they use a more tried and tested way of doing "customer
surveys"
It's known in the trade as "Sales Figures"
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