Ah, well, we've been on *that* metrication program for a long time too! :-)
chuck Norcutt
On 11/4/2010 10:03 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
> Come come, you need to get with the programme - over here construction
> materials and groceries industries have been metricated for decades. Timber
> is always sold in metric units - 2.4 metres long. And groceries are almost
> always in 227 and 454 gram packs, milk in 568ml bottles. ;-)
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 November 2010 13:00
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Reminiscing [was: Re: iPhone et al]
>
> We are partially converted. Probably all of US industrial production
> (including automobiles) has been converted for the past 30 years or more.
> The conversion effort stopped when it became too expensive to be justified.
> Plumbing fittings, for example, remain as archaic as they have ever been.
> But there's really no reason to change them, especially considering the need
> for backward compatibility. We don't change our houses every three, five or
> ten years as we do our automobiles.
>
> My toolbox contains (and has for the past 30 years) a full complement of
> metric tools since I need and use both standards. The same for the hardware
> store. I can buy screws, nuts and bolts in either standard.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 11/4/2010 2:44 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> The conversion period is always painful The UK is presently converting
>> slowly to metric weights I noticed with all the usual hoohaa, nonsense
>> and lies. I can remember the English three tier currency of twelve
>> pence to the shilling and twenty shillings to the pound and it all
>> seemed to make perfect sense.The US has metric currency but your
>> obdurate refusal to convert does cause some difficulties for the rest
>> of us who have to deal with you. Time to get rid of bushels, guys. I
>> was astonished by some of the objections I saw to universal health
>> care in the US. Seemed to be based on some strange misconceptions that
>> must make sense from the inside. Andrew Fildes afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/11/2010, at 7:38 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>>
>>> I didn't think it was a commie plot, just a dumb idea. Nothing to be
>>> gained for all the expense and trouble. Universal healthcare?
>>> That's a good idea.
>>
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