Re: OT - Fuel mileage north of the border

Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 31, 2005 at 16:30:48 from (209.226.106.120):

In Reply to: Re: OT - Fuel mileage north of the border posted by CNKS on December 31, 2005 at 09:21:51:

CNKS: Shortly after the conversion to metric in Canada, I had some used barn equipment for sale. A young Dutch lad (born in Canada) and his dad ( a landed immigrant) came to look at what I had for sale. The young lad, slightly younger than myself but both of us had gone through the school system on the Imperial system. Anyhow the young lad and my self were trying to convert Imperial to Metric with some degree of difficulty. Finally the old man said, " How would you young fellows feel had you been completely confused twice in your life." The old man had been schooled in Holland on Metric, came to Canada in the early 50s, learned a new language plus Imperial system, and here he was in the mid 70s as well as his mid 70s going back to Metric.

We complained, we growled and most of us that grew up on Imperial, have still never completely converted. I could give you dozens of examples where we still use the old system. I will agree the Metric system is much faster mathmatically.

I for one use a dual system, just to give you one example, I am still an ACRES man. Since 1972 I have converted every spray chart I own or have to litres per acre. On the other hand I've very much adapted to the kilometer. For about 15 years, I had not been to the US. One of the first things I noticed on going state side, was how far a mile is. It takes a lot longer for me to get where you folks are going. At least most Americans, I've been around tend to think of me as being rather impatient when it come to distance.

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• Re: OT - Fuel mileage north of the border CNKS 18:10:03 12/31/05 (0)

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