-----Original Message----- From: Joseph B. Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: January 13, 2001 19:15 Subject: [USMA:10454] Detergents >Kilopascal wrote in USMA 10448: > >>I have seen the new 2 kg Tide boxes of tablets more and more in the shops. >>In one store they occupied an end of Aisle display. Yet, the in store ad >>showed them as 4.41 lb size instead of the 2 kg size. >> >>In the detergent aisle, I noticed something very dumb. A box of SURF and a >>box of ALL powder detergents were labelled as 2 lhs. 3 oz. Besides, who would be enthralled with a mass of 2 3/16 lbs.? Duncan >>. (0.99 kg). Now, >>isn't this ridiculous? What is so hard about labelling it as 1 kg? And I'm >>sure it is 1 kg. This is the nonsense that turns of consumers to metric. >>And, both of these boxes are labelled in French and Spanish as well as >>English. These people need to be written to. > >Han added in USMA 10453 > >>I deeply suspect that such labelling as 2 lb 3 oz (0.99 kg) is not done out >>of ignorance, but done deliberately to set comsumers up against the metric >>system. Making metric look stupid is one of the ifp goons' tactics. Just >>read all those 'funny' and 'humourous' anti-metric diatribes which have been >>published through the years, > > >All postings to this list about Proctor and Gamble indicate the company is >friendly to metric and is gradually converting their products to hard >metric quantities. However US regulations require guantity declarations in >pounds and ounces. 2 lb 3 oz is the conversion of 1 kg. Some stupid >person in P & G >converted this back to 0.992 kg, and rounded it off to 0.99 kg. It was a >stupid oversight, not a deliberate plot to show the metric system in a bad >light. > >
