Re: [GZG] Slightly OT - Hypothetical weapon question

Here in Australia (or at least Sydney) heights are invariably  
measured and written in centimetres, but *spoken* as if they were  
metres. For example I am "one seventy-five".

It isn't metric or imperial that drives me up the wall, but occasions  
when stupid pseudo-measurements are used when perfectly good units of  
volume and mass are available. For example, I was recently asked by  
my doctor to participate in a NSW Department Of Health survey, which  
asked me, among other even more deranged things, how many "cups" of  
fruit, vegetables and salad I ate each day. Cups? How the *bleep* do  
you measure a cup of apple, asparagus, lettuce or broccoli? Put it  
through a blender and reduce it to baby-food?

Best regards, Robert Bryett

On 28/10/2008, at 04:02 , Richard Bell wrote:

> Meters are not useful for describing heights of people as the range  
> is almost entirely contained between one and two, while using feet  
> spreads the range to between four and eight.

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