Here's another amusing one that I found on the Hannity forum that Paul
mentioned a while back. Maybe some of you saw it:
Every country that uses metrics is either Socialist, Fascist or Communist. I
don't want to give up our Republican form of government just so some engineers
don't have to use a calculator. Metricfied expressions like: "I wouldn't touch
that with a 3.048 meter pole" doesn't make sense and seems dumb to say. What
about membership in the "1760 Meter High Club"? It sounds stupid!
Say NO to metrics!
There's a pretty strong positive relationship between support for metrication
and educational attainment. Also, social conservatives are generally fearful
of instability or change. Those two attributes -- low intelligence, and a
belief the world is full of scary people who must be stopped -- produces some
hilarious prose. Now if only there were fewer such people out there.
From: Paul Trusten
Sent: 01/10/2009 9:30 AM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:42286] the metric system, bureaucracy, and, uh, sodomy?
What we'll be confronting as U.S. metrication approaches--extracted from a
corner of Facebook:
WHY PEOPLE HATE IT
There is a good reason why people only adopt the metric system when they are
forced to by unjust, bureaucratic governments:
Because it is inferior, for day-to-day use. Systems which naturally evolved for
the convenience of the user are almost always better than systems set up by
ivory tower academics, and this is a perfect example of that.
Virginia D. Templeton wrote
at 3:34pm on January 6th, 2009
The metric system is of the Devil. It was, after all, created by a
cabal of God-hating French sodomites to make their genitalia sound bigger when
bragging to potential same-sex "lovers" with the hope of picking them up for a
night of wicked, debauched, feces-smeared buggery in the back room of some
rat-infested "fromagerie." God hates it.
I just thought I'd offer this up, because there are a lot of people
in the U.S. who missed, or preferred to miss, the entire 1970s U.S. metrication
movement, and will find 21st-century metrication just as objectionable, with
the old religious and armchair-mathematics objections resurfacing.
Unfortunately, "metric system" is a phrase that is still used either as a
threat or as a joke among Americans. We shall need strong leadership to take us
to our goal.
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
www.metric.org
3609 Caldera Blvd. Apt. 122
Midland TX 79707-2872 US
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