As I and others pointed out, the conversions were wrong. If People like
Phil Ligget want to pass on false information then nothing you can do about.
Just feel glad the numbers he produced were wrong and the metric numbers as
provided on the Tour webpage are correct. One hundred years from now
whatever Phil wrote will be long forgotten but what appears in the tour
archives will be there for all to see and quote.
What units do you use in Ireland, since Ireland is pretty much metric now?
Did you see the new signs? Did you talk to anybody about them and their
impressions?
BTW, define for us what you consider to be a metric country? Where do you
draw the line between one that is and one that isn't?
Dan
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From: "H. Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, 2005-07-05 14:16
Subject: [USMA:33448] RE: July 4
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
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Message date : 05-07-2005 10:01
From : "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To : "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
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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.
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