[Sca-cooks] measurement Was:Re: Sign of the Times perhaps--Dinner at Crown - cancelled

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On May 24, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Margaret Rendell wrote:

> this has already been sorted out (we should have written 'litres'  
> rather than 'l', it would have been clearer), but it leads me to a  
> related question...why does the US still use the old measures,  
> rather than metric? As far as I can tell, there are two possible  
> reasons
>
> 1) nostalgia/historical interest
> 2) the expense and effort in changing


Regrettably, I suspect there's also some percentage of Americans who  
honestly believe the responsibility is on others to conform to our  
various systems...

Adamantius




"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,  
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's  
bellies."
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