From: Remek Kocz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:35358] RE: Someone who has missed something Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 21:01:23 -0500 Sorry, meant to post it to the group: Give Ireland a generation, and it'll be like Canada, where even the older folks will give you directions in kilometers. It's just a question of people getting used to the new measurements, that's all. On 12/8/05, Stephen Humphreys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> " 2. Ireland doesn't use miles since January 20 last. Somewhone who should> smell the coffee!" > > Officially the road system does not use miles.> I know of no Irish person who does not use miles to discuss long distances> > >From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > >Subject: [USMA:35352] Someone who has missed something > >Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:13:15 +0100 > > > >Irish Times, today. > > > > > > > > NOT THERE YET, BUT GETTING THERE > > > > Madam, - It is reported recently that China has begun building a > >brand new railway to link itself to Europe through Kazakhstan. This > railway > >will be 2,500 miles long and will be completed in 2010. > > > > It was reported in recent months that Ireland will (one of these > >days) begin rebuilding the already existing railway linking Sligo to > >Limerick. This railway will be some 150 miles long and will not be > >completed until 2015. If ever. > > > > Am I missing something, apart from the train? - Yours, etc, > > > > GERRY KENNEDY, Gore Street, Killala, Co Mayo. > > > > > > > >He has missed something, apart from the train, indeed. 1. China and> >Kazakhstan don't use miles; 2. Ireland doesn't use miles since January 20> >last. Somewhone who should smell the coffee! > ><< back_to_top_grey.gif >> > >
I was going to say something about maybe the fact the the UK is "next door"
to Ireland might have an influence on that, but then realised who lived
"down the road" from Canada - so now I'm not so sure.
