Phil,
Hearing people talk metric isn't reality. You must either be imagining you
are hearing metric spoken or you aren't listening to the right people,
reading the right newspapers or listening to the right radio and TV
programs.
Of course these sources are unbiased and they never pre-select what they
want their readers and listeners to see and hear. And of course some of the
readers and listeners themselves are unbiased and never filter out the
metric and pretend it isn't there. They see or hear an imperial word twice
and that immediately means it is the majority.
Some people will go shopping and claim the entire store is imperial.
Someone else goes to the same store and can't find one thing in imperial. I
always wondered how an anti-metric person would survive in a fully metric
country. Now I know. You ignore the metric and pretend it isn't there.
You look for remnant examples of imperial and claim they dominate.
In their free time, that is time they are scrounging around looking for
remnant imperial examples, they are lurking in chatrooms trying to convince
others that the world isn't metric at all, but a wonderful imperial
paradise.
I won't mention any names, but I think we all know someone who fits the
description.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, 2005-10-13 11:58
Subject: [USMA:34839] Re: Metres have overtaken yards in the UK
In reality almost no-one uses kilometres, very few express walking
distances in metres, practially no-one measures themselves in anything
other than feet/in st/lb.
The kilometre is being used increasingly now in sport and fitness
activities. Usually referred to as walking or cycling so many 'k'
I have heard people refer to thier weight in kg, I admit it isn't common
but it isn't unknown either.
Phil Hall
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