What we'll be confronting as U.S. metrication approaches--extracted from a
corner of Facebook:
WHY PEOPLE HATE IT
There is a good reason why people only adopt the metric system when they are
forced to by unjust, bureaucratic governments:
Because it is inferior, for day-to-day use. Systems which naturally evolved for
the convenience of the user are almost always better than systems set up by
ivory tower academics, and this is a perfect example of that.
Virginia D. Templeton wrote
at 3:34pm on January 6th, 2009
The metric system is of the Devil. It was, after all, created by a
cabal of God-hating French sodomites to make their genitalia sound bigger when
bragging to potential same-sex "lovers" with the hope of picking them up for a
night of wicked, debauched, feces-smeared buggery in the back room of some
rat-infested "fromagerie." God hates it.
I just thought I'd offer this up, because there are a lot of people
in the U.S. who missed, or preferred to miss, the entire 1970s U.S. metrication
movement, and will find 21st-century metrication just as objectionable, with
the old religious and armchair-mathematics objections resurfacing.
Unfortunately, "metric system" is a phrase that is still used either as a
threat or as a joke among Americans. We shall need strong leadership to take us
to our goal.
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
www.metric.org
3609 Caldera Blvd. Apt. 122
Midland TX 79707-2872 US
+1(432)528-7724
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