This is an excerpt from a lecture delivered by Lord Kelvin in Philadelphia
(1884 September 29)
'You, in this country, are subjected to the British insularity in weights
and measures; you use the foot and inch and yard. I am obligated to use
that system, but I apologize to you for doing so because it is so
inconvenient, and I hope all Americans will do everything in their power to
introduce the French metrical system ... I look upon our English system as a
wickedly brain destroying piece of bondage under which we suffer. The
reason why we continue to use it is the imaginary difficulty of making a
change, and nothing else; but I do not think in America that any such
difficulty should stand in the way of adopting so splendidly useful a
reform'.

Why didn't he give any reasons to back up his advice?

re (Lord Kelvin): "I look upon our English system as a
wickedly brain-destroying piece of bondage under which we suffer" [said in 1884].

REPLY: And in 1917-18, America helped Britain free much of Europe from bondage inflicted on it by metric Germany. And the two countries did it once again in 1943-5 (only the bondage was even worse this time)

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REPLY: And in 1917-18, America helped Britain free much of Europe from bondage inflicted on it by metric Germany. And the two countries did it once again in 1943-5 (only the bondage was even worse this time)
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What about the bondage inflicted by Nazi metric Germany upon maertic France, mertic Belgium, metric Netherlands, metric Denmark, metric Norway, metric Czeckosolvakia, metric Poland. The crunch word here is Nazi, not metric.

While reading this page, there was an ad on the top of the screen that said:

BUY METRIC SCREWS!

And the link: http://www.boltdepot.com/Catalog.aspx

Why would there be an ad for metric products on an anti-metric site?

I'm just loving it!

We've discussed this before: the adverts are selected by reference to what we type.

try not to expect "euric" to understand this - let him have his little fantasy of lots of metric americans and brits wholeheartedly supporting metrication!!

Industry supports metrication. That is all that matters. You can talk all the FFU you want, as long as the products you buy are designed, engineered, and manufactured metric.

The people can support FFU with their mouth and metric with their money.

Lord Kelvin said:
December 9 2003 at 8:54 PM Euric


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This is an excerpt from a lecture delivered by Lord Kelvin in Philadelphia
(1884 September 29)
'You, in this country, are subjected to the British insularity in weights
and measures; you use the foot and inch and yard. I am obligated to use
that system, but I apologize to you for doing so because it is so
inconvenient, and I hope all Americans will do everything in their power to
introduce the French metrical system ... I look upon our English system as a
wickedly brain destroying piece of bondage under which we suffer. The
reason why we continue to use it is the imaginary difficulty of making a
change, and nothing else; but I do not think in America that any such
difficulty should stand in the way of adopting so splendidly useful a
reform'.

Bud's questions.
Why didn't he give any reasons to back up his advice?

Yes, why indeed? Maybe you need to think just a little harder?

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Yes, why indeed? Maybe you need to think just a little harder?
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Please spell it out for me, because I cannot see his line of reasoning.

btw I will be on vacation next week, so I will not be posting here.

<<The people can support FFU with their mouth and metric with their money.>>

1) Thank you for permission! (once an extremist....)

2) Guess what all of us, on the pro-imperial and pro-metric side, think of your constant reference to "FFU"???? Think "playground"!

Re: Lord Kelvin said: December 15 2003, 1:55 AM

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Yes, why indeed? Maybe you need to think just a little harder?
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Please spell it out for me, because I cannot see his line of reasoning.

btw I will be on vacation next week, so I will not be posting here

That seems to be the problem all imperialists share. If the planet's 6.2 billion metric users and hectares of written material explaining the advantages of that simple system hasn't penetrated your consciousness by now, it never will.
Have a nice holiday.

<<<If the planet's 6.2 billion metric users and hectares of written material explaining the advantages of that simple system hasn't penetrated your consciousness by now, it never will.>>>

Thus there is no room for variety or differing thought in your world. e.g. It doesn't matter how many acres of info that says the English language has business advantage I will still say there is a place for languages like Welsh.
BTW - your 6.2b? How about looking more nationally - like the majority of Brits who simply choose to use imperial? How are you going to stop them? What about Americans? Hey what the heck we're only talking about two little insignificant countries that no-one has heard of and makes no impact on the world!!!

(btw(2): Please re-read the post about extremism)