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| nchs09 |
Owns you..... how hard is it to understand it that these countries dont use it?
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| adi_hanson |
| kilograms rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| As a science major, I fully endorse the metric system, and I can't stand the American Standard BS. Its very simple to work with, and is more accurate as well. |
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| Dr. DAS |
Add to the list, the UK
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The European Union has finally admitted defeat in its long-running and "pointless" campaign to outlaw British pints, miles and ounces.
The decision to abandon plans to replace traditional imperial weights and measures with metric units was announced by Gunter Verheugen, Europe’s Industry Commissioner, who conceded: “This is a pointless battle. . . there was absolutely no point at all in trying to get rid of the particular heritage of one member state.”
After a wide-ranging consultation, European commissioners agreed unanimously that beer, roads and apples could be measured in the UK by whatever unit local people choose to use.
The imperial cause had become a rallying point for Eurosceptics, especially on the Right, and cynics suggested that the EU concession was designed to soften opposition to the planned European Constitution.
The dispute over the UK's right to keep its traditional measurements was at its height when four so-called “metric martyrs” were prosecuted for failing to trade in both Imperial and metric measures.
The market trader Steve Thorburn, convicted of selling bananas by the pound in 2001, was the most famous of those campaigners.
Neil Herron, campaign director of the Metric Martyrs, welcomed today's news but said he would be continuing the fight to clear the name of Mr Thoburn, who died in 2004.
“At last someone has exercised an ounce of commonsense but the disgrace is that it has had to come from Brussels and not Westminster,” said Mr Herron.
The UK’s commitment to metric units actually pre-dates British EU membership, but after joining the union the Government announced that imperial measures would be phased out by 2009.
The whole saga began in 1969 when the UK metrication board was set up four years before Britain joined the Common Market. The impetus at the time came from British industry as it was thought that a unified set of measurements would ease European trade.
Almost forty years later the EU has concluded that trade is unaffected by the discrepancy in measurements; indeed exports to the US may be aided by the inclusion of imperial measures alongside metric on British produce.
The European Industry Commissioner now says he cannot even understand why there was ever a movement to homogenise measurements.
“When I looked into this matter it was obvious to me that there was no reason why imperial measures should go. And then we held a very wide-ranging consultation which confirmed how unpopular this move was,” Mr Verheugen said. “I think up to that point nobody had really asked the obvious question which is ’do we really need [to ban] it?’
“Things such as pints and miles and feet and inches are what makes us love Britain. We don’t want to get rid of them. The idea that you could not go for a pint in a pub in Britain is not acceptable.”
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| david.michael |
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“At last someone has exercised an ounce of commonsense |
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE. |
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| Acton |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
As a science major, I fully endorse the metric system, and I can't stand the American Standard BS. Its very simple to work with, and is more accurate as well. |
+1
Physics and Math need the metric sytem, it's like crack to them, I honestly don't know why that other was invented. |
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| The17sss |
| Inches, yards, and gallons all day mothaas! |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
Inches, yards, and gallons all day mothaas! |
Banned! |
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| Dr. DAS |
| quote: | Originally posted by Acton
+1
Physics and Math need the metric sytem, it's like crack to them, I honestly don't know why that other was invented. |
Because at the time the Brits standardized it (1824), they controlled 3/4 of the globe.
Click HERE for an atlas showing metrification by date.
P.S. Metric > Imperial, but I still prefer IU for carpentry, etc. |
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| RJT |
What's even worse is how hard people freaked out when Carter tried to get the U.S. to switch.
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| Ted Promo |
I still prefer Fahrenheit to Celsius. Other than that, go go metric!
Good band too; Metric that is. |
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| Dr. DAS |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ted Promo
I still prefer Fahrenheit to Celsius. Other than that, go go metric!
Good band too; Metric that is. |
What?
It's so simple! Water freezes at 0 degrees, boils at 100 degrees.
None of that 35 degree silliness.
Also, Metric kick ass...WooT Canada! |
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