As part of the completion of metrication in Britain, I propose changing the name of Scotland Yard into Scotland Metre... (grinning)

What if people don't want to use metric?

How long did it take you to think that one up, Conrad?

I propose we change "speedometer" to "speedoyard"

How long did it take you to think that one up, Steveh ?

About half a minute.

That's 30 seconds if you want to "avoid vulgar fractions" !!!!

Or 0.5 minutes if you prefer rational decimal.

On my online timesheet, it would think I was saying 50 seconds (e 5/6th of a minute)

A question: Why is it that the metricators fail to reailse that for some tasks fractional is better and others decimal? I find it really hard to uderstand why they can't mix the two- do they have some kind of mental block or disease? (re: recent 'discussions' on the "Metric Sucks" forum)




note: the french "50 Centimes" was actually designated, on the coin, as the "½ Franc"

Before they sold out their currency!