Re: Mains installation in garden

["lexfordparc" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well that ruined your street cred, for goodness sake O-Levels, tut,
tut
GCSE ;o) SI does make things easier but confusion still exsists.
Thinking about Mass and Weight, Speed and Velocity, why do we use
Centimetres when SI is mm or m?

Over-heard on the news last night that the EU has backed down on
forcing metrication, although things still have to be marked in metric
weights they can be sold in Imperial. The reason given is to improve
exports to America.

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Chris Hunter <cjhunter@...> wrote:
>
> all this loose talk about mm for mm & mm2 reminds me of problems I
> had with school O-levels & A-levels, when lb could stand for lb-
mass,
> lb-weight, and lb-force ... which is not to mention slugs, which
were
> supposed to clear things up, but actually just made things worse ...
> and for a while people used kg in the same ways ... thanks goodness
> for SI !!
>
> sorry ... SWMBO is at night-school, so haven't eaten yet ... !
>
> Chris