I have spoken to many on this listserv who have found my comments interesting or useful, even if it might ocassionally mean disagreement.
To this end I would prefer to stay within the listserv so that I can contribute where-ever I can. I might make my opinion clear on ocassion but in the main I try to say it how it is - especially for those who have questions about the situation here in the UK.
So in respect to your request I hope that you understand that I enjoy the discussions made here and have enjoyed responses made to me and the ocassional question directed at me. I have been welcomed by many on this listserv despite the obvious differences that must come up from time to time. And, as has been agreed by many, simply all saying "yes" all the time in a group would be not only boring but would distractful from reality.
I have found that the discussions I have here with pro-metric folk tend to be far more realistic than on many forums on the net.
I hope you can see value in what I'm saying and detract from a notion of isolation, or from seeking to ban people that have different view points - although I would fully agree with banning offensive and nasty posts - something I do hop you can distinguish from mine.
SteveH
From: "John Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> Subject: [USMA:32442] FW: Re: USMA announcement Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:15:35 -0600
Dear Stephen:
I support you rights. You have spoken them eloquently now I ask that you leave the rest of us alone to get on with our lives.
If your right to imperial comes at the cost of one life is it worth the price you ask us to pay? Simple question really - but one that is at the heart of a huge discussion in the medical community at the moment. One that I research.
If you wish to have your roads in imperial and your bananas in pounds that is your right - me I prefer to kill fewer people and have to learn that 0.5 kg is one pound. But I am biased I have buried children who died due to medical mistakes, and I prefer to stop the unnecessary deaths.
So I ask you respectively to take your arguments elsewhere, and leave us to get back to the mission of this board.
No reply is necessary - or sought.
John M. Nichols Assistant Professor Room A414 Langford AC MS 3137 Department of Construction Science College of Architecture Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843-3137
Phone: (979) 845 6541 Fax: (979) 862 1572 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Humphreys Sent: Thursday, 10 March 2005 7:26 AM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:32441] Re: USMA announcement
The state is there to protect us - not tell us how to think.
I am glad that Welsh and English coexist in Wales, and I am glad that Imperial and metric co-exist in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
There will be no prolification of languages in Wales in the same way as
there will be no prolification of measuring formats beyond metric and
Imperial. If there was then I could see your point in regulating such a
prolification - but the situation is not one that's likely to happen. Ever.
>From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
>Subject: [USMA:32440] Re: USMA announcement
>Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:07:06 -0000
>
> > You are talking to a Welsh man.
> >
> > English road signs started to be put up in Wales during a time when the
> > teaching of Welsh wasn't compulsory.
> >
> > The people tore them down and dumped them outside council offices.
> >
> > Sound familiar?
> >
>
>What sounds familiar is making an issue out of state control for things you
>don't like and passive acceptance of for the things you do like.
>
>Phil Hall
>
