08-02-2006, 03:45 AM
First of all, a no / non / nahĩ / nηj / pa?ra from Baranxtu, for the reason that this resolution is -insert disapproving adjective here.
And, second of all:
Quote: In Germany, where metric is legal, it is not too difficult to buy grocery items in "pounds" -- 500 gram increments. [/quote]
But don't do it in Austria, or you'll get strange looks
And, on a sidenote on the silliness in some forms of measuring: In Austria, a hundredweight ("Zentner") is a hundred kilograms, in Germany (particularly in the North), it's a hundred pounds, so quite a difference.
Quote: If weights and measures are so integral to culture, what about the calendar? Why not scrap the international calendar now because its Christian origins are offensive to the majority of the world which is not Christian? If this passes, I think we should draft a Swiftian modest proposal suggesting this.[/quote]
That'd be funny... we could actually argue even further, claiming the Christian origin of the year numbering as an argument in favor of abolishing it, and the Pagan origins of the solar calendar (Egyptian) and organization of months (Roman) as an argument for being more sensitive to non-Ancient-Egyptians and non-Ancient-Romans
(Apart from the argument that our whole calendar is an utter mess and always has been, anyways)
And, second of all:
Quote: In Germany, where metric is legal, it is not too difficult to buy grocery items in "pounds" -- 500 gram increments. [/quote]
But don't do it in Austria, or you'll get strange looks
And, on a sidenote on the silliness in some forms of measuring: In Austria, a hundredweight ("Zentner") is a hundred kilograms, in Germany (particularly in the North), it's a hundred pounds, so quite a difference.
Quote: If weights and measures are so integral to culture, what about the calendar? Why not scrap the international calendar now because its Christian origins are offensive to the majority of the world which is not Christian? If this passes, I think we should draft a Swiftian modest proposal suggesting this.[/quote]
That'd be funny... we could actually argue even further, claiming the Christian origin of the year numbering as an argument in favor of abolishing it, and the Pagan origins of the solar calendar (Egyptian) and organization of months (Roman) as an argument for being more sensitive to non-Ancient-Egyptians and non-Ancient-Romans
(Apart from the argument that our whole calendar is an utter mess and always has been, anyways)