James Charles Ruwaldt wrote:
>
> On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 RICHARD.JACKSON@NENE.AC.UK wrote:
>
> > [snip]
> > >I know it's a little late but, my condolances Australia on your enforced
> > >metric system. I hope it never happens here. I like being 5'11" not
> > >1.81m.
> >
> > Hmmm, quite agree, although I'm not sure which sounds worst, 16.5 stone or
>105
> > kilo's :-)
> >
> I think a lot of people would like the idea of weighing themselves in
> kilograms, particularly here in the states, where we don't use that arcane
> unit, the stone. Think of all the people, particularly women, who'd much
> rather weigh 55kg than 120 lbs. Come to think of it, if we could get all
> the women in the English-speaking countries to unite in favor of the
> metric system, with its apparently smaller weights, we'd have metric so
> fast, and everyone'd be sure to use it.:-)
> Jim Ruwaldt
> '72 TR6 CC79338U
> Bloomington, IN
Yeah but they are so used to getting food by the pound that they would
end up eating twice as much and then weighing 120kg instead. The only
way out of that would be to weigh everything in tons :)
birdy
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