Steven Davies
I think you misunderstood me. I was criticising Herron for his hypocrisy not
you.
I suggest you re-read my message.
Stephen Humphreys
Neil Herron (according to what was said here) compained to Sunderland
Council about the sign.
Phil Hall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:44 PM
Subject: [USMA:35146] Re: The pitfalls of double conversion.
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
