The UK was given an opt out, that is why they are
exempt.
Road sign conversion in the UK will be a very difficult
thing to achieve. It is really the last facet of British life that needs
to be changed and once road signs are changed it will really drive home the
reality that FFU is real
If the author is an anti-German, anti-EU Brit, I can see where he would make
such an assertion. This is like saying that the only way England would go
metric is under the form a foreign dictatorship. Some English see Germany
as a rival for control of the world's institutions and culture. Britai
I vaguely remember that someone (Tom?) may have
posted this already, but just in case I'm mistaken, here's the link to a recent
article I stumbled across on the politics.ie web site about the switchover to
metric signage on the roadways:
http://www.politics.ie/modules.php?name=News&file=art
On Thursday 01 Jul 2004 21:22, Ezra Steinberg wrote:
> I looked up "metric" in the archives of the Irish Times and came across
> this article in February about the upcoming change-over to metric speed
> limit signs:
>
> http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/motoring/2004/0211/1242286904MOT11LEAD.htm
>l
I looked up "metric" in the archives of the Irish
Times and came across this article in February about the upcoming change-over to
metric speed limit signs:
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/motoring/2004/0211/1242286904MOT11LEAD.html
The bit that interested me the most was
this:
"Metric
An interesting site on metrication is at http://www.metrication.com/ for
those who have not seen it yet.
David
On 2004 Jun 30, MightyChimp sent us this copy he got from somewhere:
"The Day Today, broadcast May 25th 2004
Metric Paramilitaries Ready to end Ceasefire.
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UKMA (United Kingdom Metrication Assocation), the political wing of the paramilitary
group METNOW
Howard Ressel wrote:
Funny, I just read a Science Fiction alternate history book which takes
place in 2005 where in Germany won WWII. The book makes specific mention
how England (under German rule) was forced to go to the metric system
by.. the Nazi's.
additionally Hitler would force UK to switch
Funny, I just read a Science Fiction alternate history book which takes
place in 2005 where in Germany won WWII. The book makes specific mention
how England (under German rule) was forced to go to the metric system
by.. the Nazi's.
>
>.with Nazis in the past due to their very racist policies
There is no specific proof of the group being Nazis, just that their
policies are very similar to Nazi policies, and that the term Third Way
has been used for Nazis in some literature. Their website is
www.thirdway.org. Communism and capitalism were the first 2 ways,
Hitler gave people the thir
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