Shame you guys metricised your currency so long ago, in the French
style. Took all the fun out of it.
I suppose the Imperial system would be far more intuitive to those
with twelve fingers and sixteen toes - what part of the Ozarks did
you grow up in?
But I wondered about that snarl directed at the height of the age of
reductionism - I thought that we were still climbing towards that and
were leagues, or at least versts away from the summit.
Now I believe that you can use a diamond nail file to rub away the
ISO on the button of your new 5D Mk2 - one of those natty little
white fineliner pens will do to write ASA in it's place. Of course it
will be a bit tricky if you'd rather use DIN, or GOST. That'll reduce
communication for sure.
Personally I'm developing a currency system based around common
Australian units - there'll be three snags to the pie, six pies to
the pav and three pavs to the slab . Tourist will just have to get
used to it.
Andrew Fildes (shoe size 43, or 8, or 9 in the US)
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 17/09/2008, at 6:57 PM, Moose wrote:
> Personally, while I can work with it, I think the metric system is a
> silly, completely unintuitive system inherited from a foolish
> effort to
> reduce human communication and commerce to inhuman abstracts based on
> some inaccurate measurements. An unfortunate leftover from the
> height of
> the age of reductionism. But hey, that's just me.
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