Here's a post by me.

"Imperial is preferred by most Brits".

What no takers?

I can see you wince from here!

What a total victory for the pro-imperial side.

We are all rejoicing because no-one from the pro-metric side responded to my really useful post.

God, it's THAT easy.

(Herein lies a hint for you eric/metre - read the hint well, as its the only time I'm going to even attempt to help you out)

Heres another two:

"Decimal currency is preferred by most Brits"

Before the changeover was that the case?

"Metric is preferred by most Australians"

Before the changeover was that the case?

So ten years after we go PROPERLY metric, I predict I will be able to say

"Most Brits now prefer metric"

you're mixing "use" with "prefer"

Plus your sounding more and more like (dare I say this?) eric these days.

Mainly because you fell for the fact that I was trying to put out a futile argument just so that I could have a hollow "victory".

Actually.

I think you've totally missed the point, Andy.

Perhaps you read this thread/psot before you read the other thread it refers to?

Since it was a new post I didn't realise it was a follow-up to one of your little squabbles with eric. I don't really have time to read through all that rubbish.

SteveH: "Imperial is preferred by most Brits".

It may also be (and probaboy is) true that most Brits would accept and co-operate with a change to metric once the folly of the current situation is made clear to them, and the educational and other benefits of a single system was explained.

There is nothing unusual about people preferring the status quo when they don't know any different. A whole generation has now grown up in the idiotic muddle we have in Britain. Quite simply they have gotten use to it and don't realise the disadvatages.

re (Stan): "There is nothing unusual about people preferring the status quo when they don't know any different"


REPLY: QUIZ QUESTION -

Was the above statement by Stan first uttered by:

a) Lenin in 1917?

b) Trotsky in 1924?

c) Stalin in 1931?

d) Hitler in 1933?

e) Fidel Castro in 1954?

f) The European leaders who signed the Treaty of Rome in 1957?

g) Mao Tse Tung in 1963?

h) The Taliban leadership in 1997?

i) The U.K Metric Association in 2004?

lol!

<<There is nothing unusual about people preferring the status quo when they don't know any different. >>

This would have weight if those in the UK were never confronted by metric, but they are.

And guess what they continue to choose (in increasing popularity).

Face it - even when the state makes it increasingly difficult to work in imperial measures because it FORCES metric on us - WE STILL USE IMPERIAL!!

This must be extremely painful to those who want to persuade us how "friendly" and "nice" metric is.

ITS ALREADY HERE!
ITS STILL IGNORED!

4 decades and counting....

tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock

(loving it!)

<<
It may also be (and probaboy is) true that most Brits would accept and co-operate with a change to metric once the folly of the current situation is made clear to them, and the educational and other benefits of a single system was explained.
>>

Maybe the British people have learned from experience not to believe everything the government tells them to believe.

Bud - it started with New Labours' theme tune prior to their election success.

They used the song "Things can only get better".

Even the writer of that song regrets giving them the rights to use it!

So Tony, what is the answer of your question...?