Amen, Brother!
At 21:06 2016-03-02, c...@traditio.com wrote:
Leister Mercury, U.K. The coming EU referendum should turn our minds to matters metric. This morning I read on my milk bottle label that I have 2 pints, or 1.136 litres. In the supermarket I buy a litre of whisky and in the pub a pint of beer. The speedometer in my car gives me a reading in both mph and km per hour. Recently, during the floods in the North West a TV news reporter gave overnight rainfall in millimetres and a few seconds later the equivalent in inches clearly many people still have difficulty with amounts quoted in metric units. Is there any other country in the world with such confusion? Of course not. Furthermore, school pupils are weak enough in arithmetic without being confronted with both metric and imperial systems. How did we get into this mess? Leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling has said the EU is holding back the UK's economy. I think the culprits are in his Brexit group. Within this group are the people who for decades have prevented this country's conversion to the metric system. If they win the referendum, this metric/imperial units chaos will be perpetuated. Let us hope we remain in the EU and get a swift change to the metric system, preferably by Act of Parliament this year. Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Let-s-stay-EU-ndash-metric/story-28830611-detail/story.html#ixzz41nzrcy9s _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma </x-flowed>
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