Philip S. Hall wrote:
"Neil Herron is a classic example of what I was talking about. He runs the
metric martyrs campaign which ostensibly is about protecting the freedom of
marketeers from the law requiring them to sell in metric. He (like they all
do) says he's not anti-metric."
Well No.1, the Metric Martyrs campaign is effectively over as he tried three
times to overturn the law and he was three times unsuccessful and No.2, if we
was indeed not "anti-metric", much of his campaign, much of which involved
ridiculing metric measurements was certainly a strange way of showing it.
Traders in the UK have had to obey weights and measures law for the past 200
years. Why did Neil Herron only object to the law when metric measurements
only were introduced?
Anyway, the Metric Martyrs are old news now. I only mentioned Neil Herron in
passing regarding his contribution towards having that signpost you mention
changed, nothing more.
"So what have distance signs got to do with it? What does it matter if a sign
says its 500 m to the village of Bourdon?"
Well, in the great scheme of things, nothing I suppose. You're not interested
but a couple of people on the forum expressed mild interest about how a 30 year
old signpost reading 0.5km was replaced by one reading 300 yards which was
actually revised to 500 yards very recently. The question being; how come the
new sign is so out of whack compared to the old one? A good demonstration of
the pitfalls of conversion, I thought. Obviously you didn't.
"Where are those "I'm not
anti-metric" principles?"
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this. How does talking about a 500
metre sign make me anti-metric?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephen Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "U.S. Metric Association"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [USMA:35142] Re: The pitfalls of double conversion.
> > Apologies for not replying earlier, Daniel. Neil Herron may well be a
> > member of ARM but if he is, he's certainly keeping it a secret as I'm
> > certainly not aware if he is or not.
> >
> > He seems more concerned with scoring petty points off Sunderland council
> > nowadays.
>
> Neil Herron is a classic example of what I was talking about. He runs the
> metric martyrs campaign which ostensibly is about protecting the freedom of
> marketeers from the law requiring them to sell in metric. He (like they all
> do) says he's not anti-metric.
>
> So what have distance signs got to do with it? What does it matter if a sign
> says its 500 m to the village of Bourdon? Where are those "I'm not
> anti-metric" principles?
>
> Phil Hall
>
>
