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Re: Interesting product

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From: geoff
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:41
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"yaputya" <yaputya.leftlegin@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>
>> No all of us are on the Metric system..
>> Jamie
>
> Then you must live in one of the following countries...U.S.A... 
> Liberia...Myanmar.
>
> If you live in the US and don't work in a technical field then you are 
> probably just
> ignorant of the real extent of metrification. The unit of temperature is 
> just the lowest
> common denominator in the sensible (metric) units vs. silly (US/Imperial) 
> units
> debate which was won a long time ago by near universal consensus. (Except 
> for the
> obstinate and stupid trio of the U.S.A., Liberia and Myanmar)

Um I think the poms are at least still partially stuck in the imperial 
dark-ages too.

geoff 
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