From: Brett Parker On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:38:05AM -0000, Keith Watson wrote:
From: Brett Parker Sent: 03 February 2005 08:10 On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:44:16PM +0000, Paul wrote:
Speak for yourself - I'm living the American Dream for a month... Glorious sunshine, temperatures up in the 70's...
Paul, I know you in merka, but can you speak in an english tongue and use celcius instead of fahrenheit, 70 celcius is "rather warm" so I'm assuming you're in fahrenheit and mean 21.1C ;)
Speak for yourself Brett, as far as I'm concerned
fahrenheit is English and celcius/centigrade is "foreign muck". 70's works for me! :o)
It's Swedish [1], admittedly, but given that Fahrenheit[2] is a German invention, they're both foreign... Get with the programme, damn you ;)
Well? English is a (sort of) German dialect and our current sovereign's family also originally hails from that part of the world. So traditionally we English have always had a penchant for things German, anyway it was good enough for my grandparents, it's good enough for me. :o)
Notwithstanding that my German acquaintances all use SI units (e.g. metres, litres, Celsius, etc.).
Apparently we're supposed to work in SI units, next to go on the list is Miles, but hey, that can wait for a bit, there's far too many signs to change for that ;)
Yeah, depressing isn't it?
<nostalgia-alert>If you ask me the rot set in when we dispensed with good old shillings and pence.</nostalgia-alert>
Regards,
Keith ____________ ABSURDITY, n. - A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary