Needless to say the usual nonsense is back here referring to all things UK (eg 'no supplementary imperial on UK goods' - 'roads partly metricated' - that sort of thing) but the other recent suggestion is temperature.
I'm fully aware (being from here) how much 'C' is used in reports etc but this weekend temperatures are going to soar - and the media have done the usual predictable thing - quoting that we will hit 'temperatures in the 90's' (I was awoken to this exclamation from the Radio this morning - BBC Radio London). I still find it an interesting quirk that we Brits do that 'switch' whenever the temps get hot. You'd never hear "Well temps will be plunging to 32 degrees" and mean Fahrenheit - however when the sun has it's hat on, something stirs in us! :-) Could that *ever* happen in the USA? Say if the met office there decided to push the C-scale a bit more (bear in mind that we still use mph for wind speed - so it really is a mix) I - for one - will be enjoying it - Celsius or Fahrenheit! I suppose it's up to Schweisthall now to show a internet link to some hairdresser saying the word 'celsius'! ;-) _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now