The counter to this statement is to note the metric system was first proposed by John Wilkins (1614 - 1672) in 1668. Wilkins was appointed Bishop of Chester (1668 - 1672). Furthermore, in 1670 Gabriel Mouton (1618 - 1694) proposed some refinements to the metric system. He was a Roman Catholic priest.
These two men were hardly "God-hating French sodomites". The sort of rhetoric that she used is typical of the sort of trash that I remember seeing in the late and unlamented sites www.metricsucks.com <http://www.metricsucks.com/> and www.freedom2measure.org. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Trusten Sent: 10 January 2009 17:31 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. <http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=100000080&id=632219367> 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 +1(432)528-7724 [email protected]
