Only one opinion can be right.
________________________________ From: Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 5:28:38 PM Subject: [USMA:48113] Re: attitudes I think I will survive you saying that you have a different opinion to me, steve ;-) (Now where's that cigar....) ________________________________ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:48108] Re: attitudes Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 19:31:57 +0100 "Other than the obvious road signs and pint glasses in pubs, I see no other major uses of non-metric in the UK (the pint glass issue is somewhat a minor issue). Being a pro-metric person who wants total metrication you may see this as the UK not being as fully metric as you would like it." "Even road signs are not entirely non-metric in the UK. There are signs along highways that show kilometre distances that are ignored by the anti-metric fringe." "Products in the supermarkets are sold in metric only sizes and even the scales used to weigh your asked for goods are metric only. If you ask for an old amount you get a metric amount." Erm...all of the above happens to be entirely true, NOT bunkum as you suggest. Nice try, but no cigar! You continually try to suggest most of the time that the above is not entirely true....I'm happy to put you right. PS And yes....you did say ALMOST total bunkum, though, as ever, you never state which parts actually are bunkum...strange that! ----- Original Message ----- >From: Stephen Humphreys >To: U.S. Metric Association >Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 4:20 PM >Subject: [USMA:48096] Re: attitudes > >Hopefully most on the list will remember all this as (almost) total bunkum >from previous attempts. The anti-US spin is just the cherry on the cake. >For clearer realistic responses and final outcomes please refer to the >previous times that this consolidated effort below have been raised and put >to bed. These can be found via searching on the USMA list archives via the >web front end rather than the distribution list. > >________________________________ Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:29:56 -0700 >From: [email protected] >Subject: [USMA:48095] Re: attitudes >To: [email protected] > > >America has always thought of itself as being holier than thou. When you >have a superiority complex it makes you look inferior all of a sudden if >you >adopt the practices of those you have always looked down upon. Now that >America is no longer superior it is still hard to break the habit and >belief. It would seem Americans would prefer to be dirt poor and >unemployed >than to adopt the ways of the "French". > > >Other than the obvious road signs and pint glasses in pubs, I see no other >major uses of non-metric in the UK (the pint glass issue is somewhat a >minor >issue). Being a pro-metric person who wants total metrication you may see >this as the UK not being as fully metric as you would like it. > >An anti-metric person would harp continuously on these two instances to >claim >the UK is not metric at all and ignore the 90+ % that is metric. > > >Even road signs are not entirely non-metric in the UK. There are signs >along >highways that show kilometre distances that are ignored by the anti-metric >fringe. There are signs that show metres but are marked off as yards >(denied >by the anti-metric fringe). And soon there will be height signs, possibly >width signs too, that will show metres (in addition to out-dated units), >something the anti-metric fringe is opposing. > >Even in pubs you can purchase products other than beer in metric amounts, >such as wine and hard licquor. > >Products in the supermarkets are sold in metric only sizes and even the >scales used to weigh your asked for goods are metric only. If you ask for >an >old amount you get a metric amount. > > >You purchase petrol by the litre and hear weather reports in metric. > >Remnant uses of old unit names exist in every country and may continue to >do >so for a long time. > > >You should at least be grateful that the UK is not in the same position as >the US. > > >I highly doubt the US will ever regain its pre-eminence even if it does >metricate. No empire that has ever collapsed has ever returned to >greatness. All have become insignificant and poor. Look at Iran (Persia), >Iraq (Babylon), Egypt, Greece, Rome and the UK. > > > > > > > ________________________________ From: John Frewen-Lord <[email protected]> >To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> >Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 9:52:52 AM >Subject: [USMA:48093] attitudes > > >Does America not adopt the metric system out of sheer bloody-mindedness? >On >the BP oil spill, this article I find very telling (mostly imperial >unfortunately). The UK is not much better, at least at governmental level. > >The day America changes its attitude to the rest of the world (of which SI >is >a fundamental part) is the day that the US will regain its pre-eminence, >not >until. > >http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible+catastrophe/3203808/story.html#ixzz0sGacwW4e > > >John F-L > >________________________________ Get a new e-mail account with Hotmail - Free. Sign-up now. ________________________________ Get a free e-mail account with Hotmail. Sign-up now.
