Dear All,
At http://www.stonekettle.com I found this quotation:
English Units of Measure.
Hell even the English don’t use English Units of Measure anymore.
Everybody else on the planet has managed to move on into the 21st
Century. Not us though, we’re still measuring shit using units based
on the number of barleycorns there are in a handbreadth or the number
of stone weight in a keg. For crying out loud, even the dimmest
goatherd in those countries where they speak the clickclick language
and worship rocks can manage the metric system, what the hell does
that say about us? I realize we tried to make the switch way back in
the 1970’s and it was an abysmal failure – I remember the whole
disastrous thing. But see we were still listening to AM radio back
then, which is about one step, technology wise, above smoke signals.
Seriously, show of hands, how many of you have listened to AM Radio in
the last year? Last ten years? Now that it’s the 21st Century, it’s
time to shitcan both English Units of Measure and Amplitude
Modulation. Of course, if you do listen to AM Radio, you hear the
conspiracy nuts who’ll tell you that making Americans switch to that
commie metric system is just one more step towards the New World Order
and how posting road signs in metric just makes it easier for the
invading socialist armies. I’d like to leave the conspiracy nuts back
in the last century while we’re at it.
I left a response at http://www.stonekettle.com
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain
from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
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