Re: Metric

I've started referring to them as "real people units". As in when someone tells me "that's about 90 cm tall", my response is, "what is that in real-people units?"

I'm seeing a lot of foods marked in decimal pounds, pounds and ounces, and metric. The people who want it in metric only or metric first are as whackadoodle as the Francophone Quebecois who go around measuring signs to make sure that the French is more prominent than the English.

Now, that's a poor comparison. Metric conversion has only come to the forefront as more and more manufacturing becomes a worldwide concern and largely over the past 50 years. Whereas, Quebec French have always been screwed up. After all, they're French, they're largely anti Canadian and they think strangely. Thank God my father moved our family from Montreal to Toronto when I was eleven and I didn't have to suffer my teenage years through a totally crazy society. Growing up is tough enough. Doing it in Quebec as an English speaking youth is totally whacked.

It's about 9 hands.

And you can't hold your liquor so you have to have your beer in smaller pints. :-)