On 11/13/2017 12:54 PM, wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:25:13 -0700, graham > wrote:
>
>> On 2017-11-13 9:05 AM, casa chevrolet wrote:
>>> On 11/13/2017 4:13 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 6:47:40 PM UTC-5, casa chevrolet wrote:
>>>>> On 11/12/2017 2:15 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>> On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 1:37:40 PM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>>>>> On 11/12/2017 12:25 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 12:14:40 PM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
>>>>>>>>> You want Reality: carefully examine physics.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You want fantasy and delusions: listen to what people want!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> QED!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> John the Kelvin scale is completely arbitrary, even if absolute
>>>>>>>> zero is not.Â* Perhaps we Americans would use the Rankine scale,
>>>>>>>> instead.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think we're doing just fine with C and F.Â* There are conversion
>>>>>>> charts
>>>>>>> easily available if someone finds a recipe and needs to change the
>>>>>>> measurements to match what they're used to.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I wasn't serious suggesting Rankine.Â* However, I do wish we'd finish
>>>>>> converting to SI.Â* People seem happy buying 2 liters of soda; why
>>>>>> not finish the job?Â* We're the only first-world country that hasn't.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There's nothing human about metric, a foot beats a 1/3rd meter, more or
>>>>> less.
>>>>
>>>> I don't care.Â* We're long past the time when carpenters measured by
>>>> knotting a piece of string.
>>>>
>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>
>>>
>>> And yet there is historic and social comfort in maintaining a "tie-in"
>>> to our roots.
>>>
>> But I thought, as an American, you would reject things regal! After all,
>> the foot at one time was based on the king's shoe size:-) Should it now
>> be based on Trump's foot?
>
> Not possible, you'd have to get it out of his mouth first!
>

Dear shrewish old prune, whilst your savagely diffident /chattle of the
crown/ nation has embraced the pernicious tentacles of the EU and their
metric mediocrity it may come as news to you that back home true Englies
still resist the metrification of their time-honoured traditions, fwiw.


https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/06/20...metric-muddle/

A Haypenny for your "thoughts" such as they may be...