Re: Metric

On Sep 10, 7:27 am, "Upscale" <upsc...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
whackadoodle as the Francophone Quebecois who go around measuring signs to
make sure that the French is more prominent than the English.

Now, that's a poor comparison. Metric conversion has only come to the
forefront as more and more manufacturing becomes a worldwide concern and
largely over the past 50 years. Whereas, Quebec French have always been
screwed up. After all, they're French, they're largely anti Canadian and
they think strangely. Thank God my father moved our family from Montreal to
Toronto when I was eleven and I didn't have to suffer my teenage years
through a totally crazy society. Growing up is tough enough. Doing it in
Quebec as an English speaking youth is totally whacked.

What a lot of contributors here at Wreck are missing is the OP's (me)
original post.
Practically the whole world runs on metric.
Why not the USA? Is it because the extreme Right is so nationalistic
as to think that they are always right, better, smarter than the rest
of the planet?
Is it because they're afraid that they are being trapped into a New
World Dimension Order?
Is it because that their very symbol of liberty was designed/built in
metric, in France? (Statue of Liberty)
Or is it chauvinism, plain and simple?
.

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