tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post4019143125667684576..comments2024-03-27T20:14:40.376+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Made To Measure?David Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-13162745267261601332021-09-18T23:38:21.344+01:002021-09-18T23:38:21.344+01:00This is junk history, the stuff of Ladybird Guides...This is junk history, the stuff of Ladybird Guides. But if you are right, then you will be proved right in the new order.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-74993025478860305572021-09-18T23:37:27.014+01:002021-09-18T23:37:27.014+01:00Merci beaucoup.Merci beaucoup.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-22190171599066355042021-09-18T23:32:19.055+01:002021-09-18T23:32:19.055+01:00Un tour de force.Un tour de force.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-40638459436474149172021-09-18T19:38:53.722+01:002021-09-18T19:38:53.722+01:00Almost no one under 60 will ask for imperial, sinc...Almost no one under 60 will ask for imperial, since almost no one under 60 has ever been taught it,<br /><br />Of course imperial measures are much more natural than metric, as it’s a bottom-up system designed for human use which relates to things we all have, use or live in such as cups, pints, teaspoons, tablespoons, feet, thumbs (inches), paces (yards), rooms (stories) etc, rather than an abstract, arbitrary top-down system with no intermediary measures designed by and for bureaucrats and pointy heads. <br /><br />There’s a reason no normal person gives their height in centimetres or orders pints in millilitres. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com