Dreaming of a white Easter....

[MATHA531]

Originally Posted by petkow

Resolute!! One place I do not want to be sent though I keep hearing threats! One of my friends ended up in Yellowknife. I guess it gets nippy enough there too. Not quite tomato growing weather!

By the way, I know now you've been doing this a long time, but until now I hadn't really realised you Canadians had gone Centigrade too! I suppose like here in the UK some of the older ones still think Fahrenheit though?

Not only that, but Canada has gone you guys one better and gone metric on distances too...

While we in the USA, years behind the times in so many things, have continued to use the old fashioned absurd Farenheit scale (even God doesn't believe in Farenheit as normal body temperature is a nice round 37 degrees C while it's 98.6 degrees F )...

Imagine some of the difficulties some of our mental midgets who travel have when they listen to the telly in London in the morning, hear it's 15 degrees today and start looking for their heavy winter clothing.

Yup we still make our kids learn there are 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1840 yards (or 5,280 feet) in a mile and schools in the early grades actually give tests asking kids to make these conversions instead of teaching them 1000 meters in a kilometer (or in other words to convert 5000 meters to kilometers, just move the decimal three places left..try seeing how many of our kids or adults can convert 5000 yards to miles...

Just another indication, of course, of the technological inferiority of the USA! (BTW as you can see from the flag, I'm from the USA)

P.S. Why hasn't Britain converted distances from miles to kilometers as Ireland did...I thought the eu wanted this done?