Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:29:10 -0300
Reply-To: Angie & Jay <uberhare@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Angie & Jay <uberhare@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Fwd: metric system
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Love the metric system! I'm pre 50 and grew up with it.
I'm pretty good with converting everything when I'm travelling on the fly.
Most of my vehicles don't even have MPH shown on the speedo. But then
again, my LT doesn't really go fast enough to get in in much trouble
anywhere but a school zone!
Jason
Uberbus
On Sun., Sep. 19, 2021, 11:27 p.m. Jeff Palmer, <w.jeff.palmer@icloud.com>
wrote:
> Paying for air is highway robbery!!!
> Jeff
> Will go the distance for free air.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Sep 19, 2021, at 8:34 PM, Bruce Todd <beeceetee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dave - I am late to the party - but I would disagree that Canadians
> > dislike the metric system. I think we live with it and are used to it
> now
> > and take what is good from it and also take what we know and like from
> > imperial and kind of mash them together depending on what unit of
> > measurement is the best to communicate with.
> >
> > Something I think Canadians dislike more - is having to pay for air at
> the
> > gas station.
> >
> > BT
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Friday, September 17, 2021, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, it is Friday, though to me, this is Vanagon related, since our
> beasts
> >> have metric fasteners. I thought I had a link to an opinion piece about
> >> the metric system and Canadians dislike of it, but it seems to have
> gotten
> >> lost. But, maybe you guys can respond anyway. Do Canadians dislike the
> >> metric system? The article claimed so, based on the fact that retailers
> >> advertise prices for items giving both metric and English weights and
> >> measures.
> >>
> >> So, Alistair, Bruce, other Maple Leaf types: Care to comment on this?
> >> Politics aside, which seems to be a part of it, what do Canadians
> generally
> >> think of being metric? Since anyone younger than 45 and Canadian could
> not
> >> possibly remember when the King's system was the norm, I guess it would
> be
> >> older folks who might have some objection. Personally, I wish the U.S.
> >> were on the metric system, since it is so much simpler than what we
> have to
> >> put up with, and I would not have to worry about conversions when
> >> traveling.
> >>
> >> mcneely
> >>
>
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