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Subject: Re: [OM] Reminiscing [was: Re: iPhone et al]
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 14:03:35 -0000
Come come, you need to get with the programme - over here construction
materials and groceries industries have been metricated for decades. Timber
is always sold in metric units - 2.4 metres long. And groceries are almost
always in 227 and 454 gram packs, milk in 568ml bottles. ;-)

Piers 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 04 November 2010 13:00
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Reminiscing [was: Re: iPhone et al]

We are partially converted.  Probably all of US industrial production
(including automobiles) has been converted for the past 30 years or more.
The conversion effort stopped when it became too expensive to be justified.
Plumbing fittings, for example, remain as archaic as they have ever been.
But there's really no reason to change them, especially considering the need
for backward compatibility.  We don't change our houses every three, five or
ten years as we do our automobiles.

My toolbox contains (and has for the past 30 years) a full complement of
metric tools since I need and use both standards.  The same for the hardware
store.  I can buy screws, nuts and bolts in either standard.

Chuck Norcutt


On 11/4/2010 2:44 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> The conversion period is always painful The UK is presently converting 
> slowly to metric weights I noticed with all the usual hoohaa, nonsense 
> and lies. I can remember the English three tier currency of twelve 
> pence to the shilling and twenty shillings to the pound and it all 
> seemed to make perfect sense.The US has metric currency but your 
> obdurate refusal to convert does cause some difficulties for the rest 
> of us who have to deal with you. Time to get rid of bushels, guys. I 
> was astonished by some of the objections I saw to universal health 
> care in the US. Seemed to be based on some strange misconceptions that 
> must make sense from the inside. Andrew Fildes afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 04/11/2010, at 7:38 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>
>> I didn't think it was a commie plot, just a dumb idea. Nothing to be 
>> gained for all the expense and trouble. Universal healthcare?
>> That's a good idea.
>
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