Post by beachhutman on Oct 13, 2005 21:33:31 GMT
I have been getting particularly irritated recently by the BBCs crusade to persuade us that the Metric system is the one we want to use. They are routinely expressing weights and distances in Metric, even when they are not used. A particularly blatant example occurred during the recent Loiuisana hurricane, when a local report of 160 mile an hour winds was repeated in the Londod studio for the UK audience as 230 Kph. Neither the USA or the UK use kilometers.
In many programmes ow the instruction has gone out to use unatural metric units. I mean, when a chap is standing on a hillside in UK and looking across the valley, he does not say to his friend, "that looks about six kilometers". And as yet hardly any of the population - except the BBC - refers to common weights in metric. Recipes with "110 grams" are utter nonsense,especially coming from a bloke who clearly would ask for "a quarter" of ham in the shops.
This is a pointless exercise, and can only be inspired by slavering devotion to the tranzis in Brussels. The media is supposed to reflect the country, not to convert it.
In many programmes ow the instruction has gone out to use unatural metric units. I mean, when a chap is standing on a hillside in UK and looking across the valley, he does not say to his friend, "that looks about six kilometers". And as yet hardly any of the population - except the BBC - refers to common weights in metric. Recipes with "110 grams" are utter nonsense,especially coming from a bloke who clearly would ask for "a quarter" of ham in the shops.
This is a pointless exercise, and can only be inspired by slavering devotion to the tranzis in Brussels. The media is supposed to reflect the country, not to convert it.