Whenever I was in Britain I have respected Imperial units and used them as well and I had never trouble with that. Phil Ligget does not think that he must respect our units when he is in mainland Europe, no he pretends that France is an Imperial country. He can wait till the sun rises in the west before he will ever see Europe as he depicts it in his covering. If I meet British and American people in metric countries, Stephen, I will use the metric system even though I am fluent in Imperial. If necessary I will pretend to be ignorant. I will 'give not an inch' when in a metric country. The Irish Times, in contrast to the Irish Indepedent, covers the Tour de France in metric, as it should be. This is one Irish newpaper that supports metrication.
Han ======================================== Message date : 05-07-2005 10:01 From : "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To : "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Copy to : Subject : [USMA:33447] RE: July 4 >The Daily Telegraph and the journalist is a certain Phil Ligget. Maybe this >Phil Ligget is a member of the BWMA. On that logic almost everyone in the UK is a member of BWMA. Now I'm sure they'd appreciate the subscription income but I suspect that even the BWMA won't claim to have such a large membership.
