It is popular with the elderly because that was what they were taught; like I said, everyone under 50 years of age – who was given a British education – would be familiar with metric. They might have been taught about imperial, but metric was the requirement. It ‘built the world’ because that was the unit of measurements used at the time, but the number of people who grew up with imperial is decreasing through age.

I really don’t get the aversion to the metric system?

John is adverse to it since it was ‘forced’ upon us, and the fact that it is, essentially, French. This is despite the only countries not officially using the metric system are Liberia, Myanmar and the United States.

But that won’t fit with their anti EU agenda.

All of that won’t suit you. It seems that you want to beat the masses into submission with the threat of legal imposition.

I believe it will be the masses that those demanding imperial measurements will be beating on.
This argument has been had before but…for those aged around 50 and under the metric system is what they will have been taught at school; yes, some of you will have been given a basic grounding in imperial and others will have been fully instructed, but the vast majority will not know how many pounds to the ounce or furlongs to the mile*. I can remember moans on Points Of View (TV moan fest) when pensioners complained about weights and measurements on kids TV prog Blue Peter being in metric, being defended by the understandable point that it was a programme made for children who were being taught the metric system at school. Forcing children to be taught both imperial and metric would be impractical and a waste of time, and trying to get them to work with all those fractions involved with parts of feet and inches when they could be working with the easier to comprehend metric system could be just what they need to turn their backs on weights and measures.
Where will it end – back to pounds, shillings and pence (d), maybe?

FYI the masses represent the majority – and the younger generations represent the majority, by virtue of the fact that you cannot add to any particular age group, only take away.

* Yes, I am aware.

Could Brexit lead to comeback for pounds, ounces and yards?

Not giving an inch, going the extra mile, entering the final furlong, piling on the pounds and doing the hard yards – the English language is rich with phrases derived from the units British people use to measure distances, sizes and quantities.
Known as imperial measures – because they were defined in law in the early 19th Century and spread across the British Empire – these units have a place in our collective vocabulary and history, but could they be about to make a comeback in every day commercial use following the vote to leave the EU?
Although steps towards metrication began nearly a decade before the UK joined the EU in 1973, the gradual adoption of a French measurement system has become synonymous with European integration in the eyes of many and Brexit a priceless opportunity to inch away from it.
Since June’s Brexit vote, a number of companies, ranging from butchers to wine merchants, have said they would relish the chance to be able to trade in imperial units.
Simon Berry, chairman of Berry Bros & Rudd, has gone as far as to say it is his lifetime’s ambition to sell champagne in pint-sized bottles – currently outlawed in the UK – and in his words to reclaim it from “rules-obsessed bureaucrats”…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37339389

So they would drag the country back 46-odd years to the days before the metric system was taught in schools, thus confusing and alienating anybody who has been in education for the last five decades. Still, as long as we have our own system of weights and measures that only old people understand and were educated in, eh, John?

Arrrgh, hide my head in shame.

Strictly speaking, surely that is a Globemaster II.

There’s me thinking it was the ‘historic’ earlier version…

Powell on Clinton… Blah blah, blah.

So all the things that Forest Trump is doing NOW to sabotage his chances, and all you can come up with something from last May and something from over a year ago?

More hell and damnation for one of the presidential candidates.

Donald Trump used $258,000 from his charitable foundation for legal settlements involving his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and a New York golf course, it was reported on Tuesday.

The Washington Post reported that in 2007, Trump used his foundation’s money when his Palm Beach, Florida, club was fined $120,000 by the town for having a flagpole that was almost twice the height allowed under local rules.

As part of a settlement, Trump donated $125,000 to veterans’ charities from the Trump Foundation, the paper reported. The foundation’s money comes mainly from other donors, not Trump himself.

The Post reported that in 2010, a golfer sued when he was denied a $1m prize for a hole-in-one in a charity tournament at Trump’s course outside New York City. A $158,000 settlement also came from Trump’s foundation.

Two weeks ago the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold cast in doubt Trump’s philanthropy and raised questions about purchases he had made, apparently for himself, using money earmarked for charity.

Now Fahrenthold has uncovered what may be, if there is no unforeseen explanation here (the Trump camp has yet to comment), the biggest abuse yet by Trump of tax laws and the trust of donors to his foundation.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/trump-foundation-settlements-golf-course-mar-a-lago

And CNN says GHW has not been very discreet:

(CNN) Bush told a room of roughly 40 people Monday that he would vote for Hillary Clinton in November, according to sources close to Bush – an extraordinary rebuke of his own party’s nominee.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/20/politics/george-hw-bush-hillary-clinton/index.html

And this just in…

Donald Trump on Tuesday evening declared that the nation’s African-American communities “are absolutely in the worst shape that they’ve ever been in before, ever, ever, ever.”
As he has done regularly of late, Trump attacked the Democratic politicians who overwhelmingly control America’s urban centers as having failed the African-American populations who live there. Before a mostly-white audience at a rally in rural North Carolina, Trump rhetorically asked black voters, “what do you have to lose?”
“We’re going to make our country wealthy again. We’re going to make our country safe again. We’re going to rebuild our inner cities because our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they’ve ever been in before, ever, ever, ever,” Trump said. “You take a look at the inner cities, you get no education, you get no jobs, you get shot walking down the street. They’re worse, I mean honestly, places like Afghanistan are safer than some of our inner cities.”
While Trump told the crowd that his message has been resonating with African-American voters, his poll numbers suggest otherwise. The Manhattan billionaire has struggled mightily with minority voters throughout his White House bid, polling often in the single digits among black voters and in some cases registering zero percent support.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-african-americans-cities-228439

He is trying to sound caring but does he have anything to say about back to work job training, increased school funding and policing policies for inner city areas which need help with resources? Unless there is government investment in these areas then nothing will happen because – as he knows – people who like to make money won’t make money in these places.
And to say all this in North Carolina, where those wearing white hoods couldn’t care less about ethnic inner city problems.