On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:09:31 -0700, casa chevrolet >
wrote:

>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.* Perhaps we Americans would use the Rankine scale,
>>>>>>>>> instead.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think we're doing just fine with C and F.* 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.* However, I do wish we'd finish
>>>>>>> converting to SI.* People seem happy buying 2 liters of soda; why
>>>>>>> not finish the job?* 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.* 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...

Knock off the name calling. You are becoming very tiresome
Janet US