JB wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
Roger Blake wrote:
The metric system sucks ass. We don't want it, and furthermore we don't
give a rat's ass what bunch of effete Eurotrash may have to say about
it.

You must have your head well buried if you think you can ignore 'the
metric system'. Whether you want it or not it's here.

So What! We just use BOTH anyway!
If we cared so much about what Europeans thought, we might have sympathized
with the Nazis TOO!

The metric system's not 'European', it's WORLDWIDE, except for a slab of N
America and 2 backward states in Africa and Asia.

Graham