Stephen said "a recently joined 'contributor' has used German nazi style words to describe the Daily Mail elsewhere (I kid you not)." Yes. The "Daily Mail" is commonly satirically known as the "Daily Heil" in the UK. I quite happily admit to using this common description. Nice try at misleading the American audience, Stephen. Perhaps it might help if you gave the full picture in future. This name for the paper dates back to the 1930's when (to quote wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail "In early 1934, Rothermere and the Mail were editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists[11]. Rothermere wrote an article, "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", in January 1934, praising Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine"[12]. Rothermere was a friend and supporter of both Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, which influenced the Mail's political stance towards them up to 1939.[13][14] Rothermere visited and corresponded with Hitler. On 1 October 1938, Rothermere sent Hitler a telegram in support of Germany's invasion of the Sudetenland, and expressing the hope that 'Adolf the Great' would become a popular figure in Britain."
--- On Thu, 16/4/09, Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]> wrote: From: Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:44692] RE: Nothing but Imperial To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 16 April, 2009, 8:36 AM #yiv1360353899 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv1360353899 { font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} Be aware that you might get the usual stuff about the Daily Mail being a right wing rag (the usual mistake of 'if you prefer imperial you're right wing - if you prefer metric you're left wing') - to an extent that a recently joined 'contributor' has used German nazi style words to describe the Daily Mail elsewhere (I kid you not). However - you'd find the same vocabulary in the Daily Mirror (which is left leaning) and probably even the Morning Star (Britains only official daily communist paper!). Incidentally - if this item was covered by any of the television stations here then they'd use the same terminology. In fact a lot of recent 'real life' style documentaries would be worded as such. Regards SteveH If someone follows up this thread with a claim that I have said that UK TV is 'exclusively Imperial' or that my sole purpose above is to create a (how's it called?) 'half-truth' that people 'only deal in imperial' and 'never use metric ever' then simply discard the nonsense. Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:20:44 +0000 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:44691] Nothing but Imperial #yiv1360353899 .ExternalClass p {} Ran across this article today online in The Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1170348/The-50-year-old-mother-spent-10-000-surgery-look-like-daughter.html While this article offers us more than one lesson, it certainly illustrates Stephen's point about the absence of SI in today's Britain in various quarters. Ezra Windows Live Messenger just got better. Find out more!
