[USMA:29525] trousers in Holland

[Mighty Chimp]

Han,   This was posted to metric sucks as a response to your post.  You may want to go there and answer hos question.   Euric > I use the metric system every day and I have > no use for British and American units at > all. The stuff down here is total > gobbledygook to me. I assume that the person > who wrote this is deliberately spewing > disinformation and falsehoods about the > metric system. > One very common trick of the anti-metric > ones is attempting to 'prove' how stupid and > complicated the metric system is and > invariably they come up with garbage one > will in fact never encounter in a metric > country (see below). > The symbols used are ludicrous, and the > conversion from 1/4 mile to metric is > ridiculous. Where you say 1/4 mile, we say > 400 m (not 400 -/m) and certainly not the > ludicrous 402.337 m or the absurd concoction > used for that: 4 h/m....... > Where you say 3 miles, we say 5 km (not 5 > k/m). > And so on. > Han Maenen, The Netherlands Out of interest, how to you buy your trouses in Holland? In inches, as somebody maintains on this board and others, or in cm? As you say, imperialists are great in using daft soft conversions to make metric look silly. They keep on harping that a 1/3m is ridiculess, as if any metric person would ever care about such a useless distance.