There is opposition to metric from those in the right who hold a "goverment leave me ALONE" (also known as "Don't tell me what to do!") attitude, though.
Carleton ----- Original Message ----- From: "STANLEY DOORE" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:26:50 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [USMA:44693] RE: Nothing but Imperial You are mistaken Mr. Humphreys. Metric is NOT right wing as you say it is. Companies in the US are subtly converting to the SI because of the SI economic advantage - an advantage to taxpayers. It is the left who are against standardizing on the SI in the US, not the right. Stan Doore ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Humphreys To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:36 AM Subject: [USMA:44692] RE: Nothing but Imperial 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 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!
