It's up to you if you want to believe the fruitcake who STILL beleives that pub lager is sold metrically, Pat - it really doesn't bother me too much - just that some people might actually believe him (having said that, the majority of the list forum say they put his incarnations in the junk box so they tend to miss out on his very odd view points).
If it's of any help - some packaged items have imperial beside metric too - albeit not in great numbers, but the fact is - if I wanted to see the price of a, say, carrots in pounds I can do so at my tesco. The metric is first and the imperial is second - they both use the same font. I don't quite understand why the fruitcake from the USA (Ohio) dreams of things in the UK that are just not true. It gets even more bizzare when he then switches to saying that the UK is 'poor, in recession' etc because we use imperial a lot. He 'flip-flops' this subject quite a lot if you check his history. If you want 'proof' I'll try and ship a Tesco store out to you :-) Steve Is he referring to little me here? Such a lovely man, isn't he? I see you're still waiting for proof of what he asserts to you about imperial edging on shelves. I reckon you'll have a long wait! ----- Original Message ----- From: Kilopascal To: Stephen Humphreys ; [email protected] ; U.S. Metric Association Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:50513] Re: Coffee mug Pat, If what Stephen says were true, he would not have to show anger and use terms like "fruitcake" or references to location. His proofs would speak for themselves, plus he would have other's support and they would back him up. Neither of this has happened or will happen. The UK is predominately a metric country. That fact has been verified. But at the same time it is a country with severe financial problems exist, much of it due to the exportation of jobs. If >20 % of the youths coming out of the schools are unemployable due to innumeracy (see: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6042996), one can connect it with being unable to function in metric units. Despite being a metric country, the type of resistance that people like Stephen employ counters any positive gains from being a metric country. Businesses who use metric internally will not hire people who can't function in it. People who have learned in school but refuse to use metric outside the school only adds to their innumeracy and their poverty. Thus the continued depression and economic hardship despite the use of metric in the markets, media, industries and elsewhere. Therefore there is no contradiction to what I have stated. One doesn't have to ship a Tesco store to you, one can simply supply photographic proof as was done below. I'm sure if the proof existed, you would have seen it by now. No proof, no truth, just another long winded pile of BS. From: Stephen Humphreys Sent: Friday, 2011-05-27 21:13 To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Subject: RE: [USMA:50513] Re: Coffee mug It's up to you if you want to believe the fruitcake who STILL beleives that pub lager is sold metrically, Pat - it really doesn't bother me too much - just that some people might actually believe him (having said that, the majority of the list forum say they put his incarnations in the junk box so they tend to miss out on his very odd view points). If it's of any help - some packaged items have imperial beside metric too - albeit not in great numbers, but the fact is - if I wanted to see the price of a, say, carrots in pounds I can do so at my tesco. The metric is first and the imperial is second - they both use the same font. I don't quite understand why the fruitcake from the USA (Ohio) dreams of things in the UK that are just not true. It gets even more bizzare when he then switches to saying that the UK is 'poor, in recession' etc because we use imperial a lot. He 'flip-flops' this subject quite a lot if you check his history. If you want 'proof' I'll try and ship a Tesco store out to you :-) Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:50513] Re: Coffee mug Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:30:42 +0100 "... the fact that shelf edge imperial still exists and is printed in most stores - strangely missed out down there!!" I shop at a Morrison's supermarket almost every day and not once have I noticed any "shelf edge imperial". Every shelf (and just about every item) has metric measurements ONLY on them. Mr Humphrey's knows this full well. Don't hold your breath waiting for evidence to the contrary from him, though. He's quite fond of making these claims, but, strangely enough, never presents any sort of proof whatsoever. He's a troll anyway, and best ignored really! ----- Original Message ----- From: Kilopascal To: Naughtin Pat ; U.S. Metric Association Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 1:50 AM Subject: Fw: [USMA:50496] Re: Coffee mug Pat, Stephen Humphreys said: "... the fact that shelf edge imperial still exists and is printed in most stores - strangely missed out down there!!" Well, not a fact at all, but wishful thinking and knowing you might not wish to verify his hope would be that you have no alternative but to believe him. Well, don't! Here are a few links to some UK "shelf edge talkers". I'm sure you can judge for yourself just how much imperial is marked. Let the facts speak for themselves: http://www.beechman.co.uk/star/star_tsp800_shelf_edge_tickets.jpg http://www.findtheneedle.co.uk/images/products/2835914.jpg http://www.beechman.co.uk/labels/shelf_edge_labels.jpg http://www.tills4change.co..uk/images/pictures/icr/tms_shelfedge.gif http://www.encompos.com/media//ShelfLabel.jpg Labels from Tesco - The Imperial Store". Just look at all the imperial measures!!!!! http://www.andrewbrooks.co.uk/Tesco%20DQ.JPG http://www.pastymuncher.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/tesco-penny-off.jpg http://sodiumlightsthehorizon.co.uk/cms/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMAG0053.jpg You may wish to ask Stephen yourself if he can provide some proof of his claim. Odds are he won't because he can't. Just to remind you Pat that Stephen diverted over to this topic to distract you away from the painful truth that his pub pint is served in a 570 mL glass and not 20 ounce as he would like you and everyone else to believe. These same 570 mL glasses are available in Australia. Get some and examine them for yourself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1375 / Virus Database: 1509/3664 - Release Date: 05/27/11
