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From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, 2005-07-14 07:21
Subject: [USMA:33554] Re: metric Germany, yes---but euro coins, darn it!
What off the wall tabloid did you read this in? I doubt you visited every
country and asked all of the people?
A few points on this:
1) It's common knowledge - the Germans have even given it a nick-name -
the "teuro" (look it up)
I looked up teuro on a Google search. Even though the term can be found,
there is no listing for it under Google NEWS. Meaning the reference is old
and no longer in use. Your common knowledge is very dated.
2) It wasn't in a tabloid - its generally discussed on finance programmes,
in debates and organisations such as the BBC. I don't read newspapers
that often.
Finance programs sponsored by the UKIP no doubt and maybe a few years back.
you need to stop relying on Tony Bennett for your source of information.
Tony's inforamation is as credible as Bush's WMD excuse for attacking Iraq.
I have visited many countries in the world on business trips but that
doesn't make me an expert on any of them. You may think that visiting a
country makes you an expert on life there but there is no way one can be
when one usually visits for a few days at a time. In that case you see and
hear what you want to see and hear.
I was last in Europe in the early '90s 10 years before the euro even
existed, thus my visit can not be used to claim that I'm an expert on use of
the euro just because I made some trips to certain countries. Your list
doesn't tell us (part of your policy of omitting facts) as to when you were
in these countries, how long you stayed and what you did there.
I'm sure you spent your time looking for long, lost uses of imperial
measures, so you can claim these countries still use imperial.
I know your tactic and so does everyone else. Your logic is as follows:
Get rid of the euro, get rid of the EU
Get rid of the EU get rid of the EU measurement laws
Get rid of the EU measurement laws get rid of metric laws now part of UK
law.
Then it is clear sailing to restore imperial to all facets of business in
the UK.
You can wish and you can plot and plan for the demise of the euro and the
EU. Not only won't it collapse you will never see imperial regain any lost
space, never, ever.
Dan
3) I have visited:
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales (place of birth)
England (where I live)
Denmark
The Netherlands
Jersey
France
Spain
Luxembourg
Portugal
Andorra
The Principality of Monaco
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Italy
Hungary
Belgium
All of which are in Europe - some of which are in the EU.
Try a new tactic - honesty - and tell me all the european countries you
have been to?
I don't mean to be smug but you seem to be able to preach an awful lot
about my own country and the other countries around which I live.
I wonder, between the two of us, where we have gleaned our knowledge -
experiancing the country and its people for real? Or a carefully crafted
collection of words submitted to a website called www.google.com
The subject is relative in that you keep trying to find obscure reasons
why old fashion practices still persist and/or why they are desired in
some small circles. The majority do move on with changes and new ways
despite your sides exaggerations to the contrary.
I'm still interested to know which "side" I am on.
I do hope its not one based upon fantasy and biggoted fanatisism.
If you know what I mean.
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