Spot Poll

[StahlMeister]

Oh... are the stories that we hear about NZ and Australia indeed true? ;)

[Brian Leybourne]

OK, thanks guys. Polls over.

Final results: Most of you were not offended, a couple of you are Australians, and quite a few of you like boobies (no real surprise there).

But more importantly, I wasn't offensive to Americans (as I knew all along). Sweet.

Cheers all,
Brian.

[Valamir]

Besides, Metric is simply a crutch for the mathematically challenged, and people to senile to remember conversion ratios other than 1:10.  How could users of a real measurement system possibly be insulted by comments from the obviously inferior...it would be beneath us to even notice.

:-P

[toli]

Actually if you think about a technological level at which it might be hard to make accurate measurments, the English system makes some sense.  Many of the measurements (though not all) are easily done by halving and halving again.  Eg, got a gallon but want a quart?  Take half and then half of half.  Many of the volume measurements work this way.  Some of the length ones do to, but not all.