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John Dibble
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« on: January 21, 2008, 05:09:39 PM »

Good!

What's the point of being educated in metric, as I was to be faced with imperial measures when I head to the market. If she offered her customers a choice, labelling in both metric and imperial then she wouldn't have been dragged through all this.

But why should it be a crime? Who the hell is harmed by a store using imperial measurements rather than metric? If there's a scale there to tell you how much something weighs in imperial measurements, you can't argue that the store is cheating you or anything like that.
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John Dibble
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« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2008, 10:44:36 PM »

The consumer is ultimately harmed if they cannot calculate how much of a certain foodstuff they are buying. I'd feel exactly the same with 'metric only' scales.

That's the best you can do? Seriously afleitch, I expect better from someone of your intellect. At best you can make the case for that being inconvenient, but to call that harm is completely ludicrous and you know it. I mean think about it - this woman runs a vegetable stall. How many recipes call for "2 kilograms of tomato and .5 kilograms of potato"? Recipes call for stuff like "2 medium sized tomatoes and half a potato". For ingredients that require precise measurements you'd generally use your own measuring instruments anyways. Those who actually require their vegetables to be bought in kilograms and pounds are probably going to be restaurants and the like who are going to buy in bulk anyways, meaning not from a roadside vegetable stall.
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