I was talking about changing a unit of measure from one type to another
when everyone was comfortable with the status quo.
How do you know everyone was comfortable with the pound? Maybe they just
got use to it and took it for granted. Being comfortable with something is
really no reason to keep something if something better is out there.
By your logic, we should never have had electricity as people previous were
comfortable living without it.
No, not really.
People still ride horses. What's the point in that when you could buy 2
cars for the price of a horse?
Why do some of englands villages have straw hatched bungalos when they could
have smart airconditioned living units?
What I am saying is - the status quo worked fine. Now that metric is being
pushed in the supermarket we get the bizzare situation of customers still
referring to pound with the shop keeper converting to kilos
Erm - prior to 2000 shops displayed metric and imperial.
How much prior? They may have done it just prior to conversion to get
people comfortable with metric rather then have them shocked.
There has been a mix for as long as I can remember.
Then perhaps you could give examples of the misinformation that motivated
you to join them.
Mainly (but not exclusively):
1) Gloating over the death of Steve Thoburn ("one down xxx to go")
2) Lieing about metric and imperial
3) Equating imperial users with child abusers
4) Constant references to the destruction of imperial by all means
necessary
5) Personal attack - just for wanting to RETAIN imperial (ie not
anti-metric)
6) Mentioning communist and Nazi regimes as succesfull ideologies in
"getting the [metric] job done"
7) etc
From info I gathered Steve Thoburn died on 14 march 2004 from a heart
attack. No doubt brought on from being made the test case by the BWMA.
Woah! Don't even suggest that Mr Thoburn left a bereaved family due to the
BWMA.
In fact I'm not even going there.
I'm sure you have been a paid member of BWMA before this time. When did
you join?
Germany was metric long before the Nazis ever came to power. I highly
doubt pushing metric was part of their agenda. Please explain in better
detail some of you points above, as they make no sense to me.
I was not equating Nazism with metric. Re-read the fact that I was talking
about individuals using appalling methods of promoting metric which was the
"final straw" that lead me to join BWMA.
You've read my post entirely wrongly.
If you want to pick up on those individual points then do so privately (as I
suspect flooding the USMA list serv with a two-way conversation based upon
misinterpretation would not go down that well).
