4 Mar
2001
4 Mar
'01
8:24 p.m.
OK, well I'm a displaced Canadian and I
automatically assume weights
to be in Kilo. So 40 LIBS it is.
Things in the US are just too democratic and the government can't
ignore the public's complaints about converting to metric. People in
Canada complained about converting to the metric system, but it went
through anyway. My opinion is that many people from the US are paranoid of
things from the outside (like the metric system), as if it is some
Communistic plot.
Here in Britain it's regarded as an EU plot ;-)
The howls of protest when anything new is metricated can probably be heard
clear across the pond! Mind you, prosecuting a greengrocer for displaying
his weights in pounds (as happend recently) was a bit over the top....
I've been metric since I was at school (late 50's - early '60s) so I can
cope with either. My old 386 tower weighs about 1 1/2 stone....
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!