Metric Road Signs

mkpdavies · 17-02-2008, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by PolishUser

Heck, the US is now metric rather than non-metric!
Metric Methods: Metrication Consultant Services. Don't be late to metricate!

Try telling that to Americans for everyday things, rather than scientific ones.

PolishUser · 17-02-2008, 01:44 PM

UK metric association
So, since Canada and Mexico are metric, yet are parts of NAFTA (while Britain is not a part of NAFTA), the metric system will NEVER make Britain unable to trade with the US.

mkpdavies · 17-02-2008, 01:48 PM

I don't doubt there is a plan to make the world metric, along with one world government, global taxtations and other fascist measures.

PolishUser · 17-02-2008, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by cassie

Without wishing to indulge in an academic game of semantics, dare I suggest that after some two thousand years of usage, it is reasonable to regard 'imperial' as English.

No. By the same logic, metric units, cars and tanks could be called Polish because we Poles use them everyday.

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Indeed, by your own account, metric was only conceived - let alone used, let alone widely used - less than four hundred of those two millennia.

Well, if the metric system is not commonly used even though 93% of the global population uses ONLY that system, then don't bother replying to my posts.

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Try telling that to Americans

Which Americans? Those who export to metricated countries (like Canada and Mexico)? Or the members of state authorities, who have banned products marked with imperial markings (those products that they can decide about, not those that are decided by the US Federal Government)?

cassie · 17-02-2008, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Northumbrian

My point is what's culture got to do it? Just because something's been done this way for x number of years doesn't mean it always has to be.

To use an example closer to home - I take it you've got used to decimal currency, or would you prefer to revert to pounds, shillings and pence?

I accept your point but, if you look at my previous posting, you'll see that I have advanced a reason for retaining imperial.

Apropos the decimal pound, frankly I couldn't care less, but my opinion hardly counts(!!). The dirty deed was done nearly forty years ago in 1971; why should anyone want to incur the cost of conversion again in addition to the cost of teaching its use?

Ironically, one of my first jobs was converting overseas accounts in foreign currencies to sterling, which involved converting the old (240d) pound to decimal parts of a pound ie 1d=£0.0041666

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PolishUser · 17-02-2008, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by mkpdavies

I don't doubt there is a plan to make the world metric, along with one world government, global taxtations and other fascist measures.

Yeah, sure, so the members of 50 American state authorities, American exporters and Jim Frysinger are fascists?

Sure, whatever.

You don't know what you're talking about. Further replies will only serve to embarrass you.

Do you want the Americans to de-ratify the 1988 INF Treaty? If they want to use only imperial measures, then they will need to de-ratify that treaty - unless the Russians will agree to renegotiate it.

Westcountryman · 17-02-2008, 02:00 PM

Oh dear, I think that many people are forgetting that many US 'imperial' measurements are different sizes to ours!

Metric is of course, the same throughout the world.

Northumbrian · 17-02-2008, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by mkpdavies

I don't doubt there is a plan to make the world metric, along with one world government, global taxtations and other fascist measures.

Using the same measurements couldn't stop Kosovo seceding from Serbia!

mkpdavies · 17-02-2008, 02:01 PM

They can do what they like, I don't care. All I care about is not allowing fascism to rule this country. If people want to use Metric they should be able to. If they prefer imperial, same applies.

What I don't like though, is government intervention to try and force one way or another.

cassie · 17-02-2008, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by PolishUser

No. By the same logic, metric units, cars and tanks could be called Polish because we Poles use them everyday.

Well, if the metric system is not commonly used even though 93% of the global population uses ONLY that system, then don't bother replying to my posts.

Which Americans? Those who export to metricated countries (like Canada and Mexico)? Or the members of state authorities, who have banned products marked with imperial markings (those products that they can decide about, not those that are decided by the US Federal Government)?

I think you've missed the point somewhat. I thought we were discussing usage in England! However, as usual, someone non-English presumes to lecture us on what WE should or should not do . . . but then Poles were bossed around by the Russions for decades and some seem to have adopted the same bad habits.

I cannot resist saying that, if you love metric so much, why don't you go where 100% of you Poles can use metric untroubled by us English 'imperial' proponents, instead of instructing us what to do?

You are free to tell us what you think, and we are equally free to tell you what we think of your opinions!

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17-02-2008, 01:44 PM	#22 (permalink)
PolishUser Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 334	UK metric association So, since Canada and Mexico are metric, yet are parts of NAFTA (while Britain is not a part of NAFTA), the metric system will NEVER make Britain unable to trade with the US. __________________ A vote for the Labour Party or the SNP is a vote for the Argentine police state.

17-02-2008, 01:48 PM	#23 (permalink)
mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 32,059 Party: Libertarian Party	I don't doubt there is a plan to make the world metric, along with one world government, global taxtations and other fascist measures. __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Lib Dems

17-02-2008, 02:00 PM	#27 (permalink)
Westcountryman Uber Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: The Westcountry. Posts: 5,922 Party: None	Oh dear, I think that many people are forgetting that many US 'imperial' measurements are different sizes to ours! Metric is of course, the same throughout the world. __________________ Manus haec inimica tyrannis ense petit placidam sub libertate quietam - "This hand of mine, which is hostile to tyrants, seeks by the sword quiet peace under liberty."

17-02-2008, 02:01 PM	#29 (permalink)
mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 32,059 Party: Libertarian Party	They can do what they like, I don't care. All I care about is not allowing fascism to rule this country. If people want to use Metric they should be able to. If they prefer imperial, same applies. What I don't like though, is government intervention to try and force one way or another. __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Lib Dems

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