Come off it, Steve...the story is total b******s!! Excuse my frankness, but I loss patience with the press trying to give these stories any type of creedence, probably with a sly wink!!
The brilliant QI programme on the BBC with Stephen Fry once spent the latter half of one instalment devoted to exposing famous anti-EU scare stories, including the kronk about straight bananas and trawlermen having to wear hairnets. They exposed up to seven or eight anti-EU stories that were later found to be completely false. These stories only come about because they know they have a ready made audience in the UK, especially in the Daily Mail, that are only too willing to believe them. Trust me, Steve...it's complete and utter kronk!! ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Humphreys To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 10:57 PM Subject: [USMA:48010] Re: Eggs in Europe Keep an open mind on it Steven - there may be some truth to it - although I agree the press (incl the left) 'juice up' EU type stories to get a reaction. The banana thing recently got repealed I believe. 'repealed' - humour in the bones, see? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:48005] Re: Eggs in Europe Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:07:37 +0100 Pat, this is yet another made up story from the usual right-wing lunatic fringe. It joins a long line of anti-EU stories including Britain having to have straight bananas, trawler fisherman having to wear compulsory hairnets and trapeze artists forced to wear hard hats due to EU health & safety legislation......every last story complete and utter dreck, of course. There is practically an emtire industry in the UK press devoted to EU scare stories such as these which are, of course, lapped up by gullible right-wing nut jobs. Please Pat, and any other menbers if this listserver, do NOT take this story seriously...it is complete rubbish from start to finish. ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Naughtin To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: USMA Metric Association Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 4:09 AM Subject: [USMA:47996] Eggs in Europe Dear All, I responded to this article at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1290099/Leave-eggs-Tories-warn-Brussels.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a free e-mail account with Hotmail. Sign-up now.
