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But apart from road signs and pints of beer in pubs, there is
little actually left in Britain that IS imperial, Han.
Pre-packaged goods have been SI for years. Spirits are
sold in metric measures. Nearly all of our industry uses SI measurements
because trying to measure small tolerances in the likes of binary fractions is a
pain in the backside.
In truth, there is only items sold loose that are actually
sold in pounds and ounces, any even they, as you are aware, have to be
supplemented by law with a more prominent metric measurement.
The BWMA are kidding themselves if they believe that this is a
mainly imperial using country. It isn't! Far from it!
Regards,
Steve.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 1:18
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Subject: [USMA:30620] Re: UKMA
Questionnaire - answered by the BWMA
That is typical BWMA-stupidity. They make it appear that Britain has high
economic growth because of its use of ifp, while the present sluggisch
economic growth in The Netherlands, Germany and France is caused by the use of
SI in these countries.
The higher economic growth in Britain (and Ireland) is caused by their
adoption of the American social-economic model; France, Germany and The
Netherlands use the Rhineland model, a more 'social' type of capitalism, which
at present has the wind against it.. Strange that Ireland is going metric and
yet has high economic growth, isn't it BWMA?
Han
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Subject : [USMA:30619] UKMA
Questionnaire - answered by the BWMA
Tony
Bennett
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| Questionnaire |
August 3
2004, 1:01
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re: UKMA Questionnaire
Would you like
to see Britain get out
of the measurement unit mess?
YES, by
allowing the market to revert to
Imperial
use
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Would
you like to see your
children be able to use the units they are
taught in school?
NO. I'd like them
to learn both sets of
units
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Would
you like price
transparency through consistently labelled
quantities?
Er, I can think of some
other priorities ahead
of
that
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Would
you like to see Britain
be internationally competitive by using the
international system of units?
Hardly, since over in France,
Germany and Holland, where they already have
S.I. units (and
something called the euro), they have unemployment at up
to 10%, growth is
non-existent, and inward investment way behind
Britain's
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Would
you like a safer
Britain using one single set of units?
On
the roads, yes - Imperial - like
99.9% of the signs are already. I
wouldn't want any more Adam Doggetts of this world
to he stuck under any
more bridges signed illegally in metric units - nor lorries
banging into an
overhang because the height's been wrongly converted
to
metric
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Would
you like to see the end
of the ban on metric units on our roads,
footpaths and pubs?
NO. I'd like to
see the end of the ban
on selling loose goods in pounds and a posthumous Royal
Pardon for the late
Steve Thoburn
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NO. I'd like them to learn both sets of units
A comment on this answer:
Learning both systems is a BWMA trick. What they
hope is that people who are taught both systems will continue to chose to
use FFU and forget metric. They constantly make claims about people
who ran into trouble with metric by not knowing it despite it being taught
in the schools. Because once out of school, they use only
imperial. I find that hard to believe, especially if one works in a
metric industry and shops in a market where only metric products
exist..
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