I beg to differ with you Karl. Metric system makes sense in more ways
than one. It is the British system that is confusing for most people with
fractions and inches and the base 12 measuring system.
I think this was a conspiratorial plot by the British Crown to brainwash
people in the USA and in this way keep the USA from using the metric.
Imagine if we would have went metric back in the early 1900 - with the force
of
USA innovation we would have flooded the whole European theater with USA
goods.
Also probably the whole world and we would be much more economically
powerful today then we are now. Teachers would teach a simple measuring
system
to students. Students would like math better.
I believe the British inches and gallons system has made us less
competitive in the world then we could have been.
As I said the Crown was worried the USA would be too powerful - therefore
they had to brainwash us to keep the USA in its place. Unfortunately even
the Crown was not powerful enough to keep USA completely down. That is the
real indignity.
Michael Balahutrak
Houston, TX
53 TD
In a message dated 6/25/2011 10:45:21 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
kvacek@ameritech.net writes:
What "indignity of Whitworth"? Indignity is metric in my GMC and Ford
vehicles.
Karl Vacek
Riverside, Illinois USA
TC 6370
-----Original Message-----
From: oliver
Subject: [Mg-t] cars2 the movie
just got home from the movie (and dinner)
great movie, but especially because it mentions lucas electrics, british
cars (if there's no oil under them, there's no oil in them) and
whitworth!!!!!!! a joke undoubtedly lost on most people, but heart warming
to those of us who have suffered the indignity of whitworth in our
vehicles
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