Thanks, David and Victor et al. I do think that we should hold our noses and
study the inflammatory anti-metric remarks made in the media, because they
shall resurface once metric is discussed seriously on the national stage again.
Amidst the rational discourse, we are going to hear these noises from the
lunatic fringe, and, too often, they are the people who get the microphone.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: David
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: 10 January, 2009 12:17
Subject: [USMA:42288] Re: the metric system, bureaucracy, and, uh, sodomy?
Yeah, I saw that. That's such a shame, because they're really grasping
at straws. The metric system is fine in day-to-day life. People think meters
are too big? Every person in every other country would think feet are too
small. And if metrication were done correctly the pole would be rounded down to
3 meters. ;)
People always tell me that we shouldn't transition because people don't
want it, but I say that people don't know what they want. If people were
educated about the metric system, and I mean everyone and not just students,
then the stigma would go away.
--- On Sat, 1/10/09, Victor Jockin <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Victor Jockin <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:42287] Re: the metric system, bureaucracy, and, uh,
sodomy?
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009, 6:07 PM
Here's another amusing one that I found on the Hannity forum that
Paul mentioned a while back. Maybe some of you saw it:
Every country that uses metrics is either Socialist, Fascist or
Communist. I don't want to give up our Republican form of government just so
some engineers don't have to use a calculator. Metricfied expressions like: "I
wouldn't touch that with a 3.048 meter pole" doesn't make sense and seems dumb
to say. What about membership in the "1760 Meter High Club"? It sounds stupid!
Say NO to metrics!
There's a pretty strong positive relationship between support for
metrication and educational attainment. Also, social conservatives are
generally fearful of instability or change. Those two attributes -- low
intelligence, and a belief the world is full of scary people who must be
stopped -- produces some hilarious prose. Now if only there were fewer such
people out there.
From: Paul Trusten
Sent: 01/10/2009 9:30 AM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:42286] the metric system, bureaucracy, and, uh, sodomy?
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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