Not to flood this board with an apparently two-person debate I will be brief
in my final response:-
When it comes down to it there is no fence to sit on and trying to do so
lacks integrity and a proper understanding of the issues.
Fortunately I don't sit on a fence.
I get your point - however I regularly choose a side of the fence to be in
(rather than on).
A good example of this being done by other people would be to look at
australia. Although the state is 100% metric (or prob about 95% if one were
to be pedantic) people still use the "foot" unit to describe things. I
asked an australian person why, considering the unit would not have been
taught to him and he looked oddly at me and exclaimed "because its a handy
length". He also asked why I asked such a weird question (which reminded me
how few people get really bothered about this).
* The EURIC phenomenon
If you look back over my comments you'll find that I do not rely on any
opinion about you supplied by him or anyone else. I merely make
observations about what you have actually said on this forum and elsewhere.
I note this.
I was just hoping that any "insider information" you received could be
treated as fact. It looks like you don't treat it this was - so thats fine.
Interestingly I happen to know he 'gets off' on people talking about him.
So I'll stop! ;-)
* Quality and purpose of debate on this forum
The purpose of this forum isn't to debate the pros and cons of metrication.
If you review the page that introduces it:
Please note that I don't think I've debated that way.
The only criticisms I have made of the metric system here is as a result of
links to the BWMA board - by you!
Yes, I "have a go" over there. But my style of debate is extremely
different here because I respect the wants of the posters here. If anyone
were to compare my style on the BWMA site to my style here they'd see a
different person - this is deliberate. However I think that adding an
opinion to a debate is not a bad thing.
Also - I feel compelled to correct bad information from a UK perspective
because it does not help those who support USMA. An example would be if
someone said "The UK use kilometres on our roads so why not us?" - I would
think it helpful to correct that assertion. (I don't want to use a real
example as I believe such debates are finished).
