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.
So German people don't use the term anymore? Is that right?
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.
Which finance program is this?
Are you honestly saying that the BBC buy programmes made by UKIP?
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.
How boring would this list be if I started writing my biography here?
Be (for once) honest and tell me- Are you being serious?
I'm sure you spent your time looking for long, lost uses of imperial
measures, so you can claim these countries still use imperial.
Indeed - I went around with blinkers on/ eyes closed (delete as required)
and saw no metric at all in these countries. Only imperial. Problem is, I
came back to the UK and found that everyone spoke metric - as in - on the
street, in the pubs, on TV, in my family. I was shocked to find that only a
small minority in small circles spoke imperial and they had newspapers made
just for them.
Then I awoke from my fantasy.
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.
What an interesting picture you build of me.
That sure makes me one hell of a powerful, influencial zealot.
I might phone Mr Blair now and make my demands.
Hmm
I wonder who else agrees with you?
Or, I wonder if people are actually thinking like I'm thinking - that you
are increasingly embarrassing and hardly the best embassador to the metric
system.
In fact - there has been someone who used to posted here some time back that
claimed to be pro-metric - except he turned out to be an extremist (or
"fanatic", maybe) and did nothing but damage to the cause of metrication.
Do you get email "one on one's" with people who post here?
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.
You're sounding desperate.
