Philip S Hall wrote: "Steven Davies
"I think you misunderstood me. I was criticising Herron for his hypocrisy not you. "I suggest you re-read my message." Yes - many apologies for my total misunderstanding of you. Not for the first time, I feel like a prize chump! Thanks for putting me right! Yours rather sheepishly, Steve. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephen Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:35146] Re: The pitfalls of double conversion. > 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 > >> > >> > > > > > >
