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Re: I'm back... you may all run away from your monitor screaming, if
Posted By: Jommeke, on host 212.190.10.138
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 1999, at 08:11:31
In Reply To: Re: I'm back... you may all run away from your monitor screaming, if posted by Faux Pas on Tuesday, August 31, 1999, at 07:17:08:

> > 12 inches in a foot.... but don't bother trying to understand us measurements, they really maek no sense.... intellectually, i think we should switch to the system the rest of the world uses (metric)...
> >
> > uni"and how many kilometers are in a mile again?"peg
>
> All we have to do is educate the children and wait for the elders to die off.
>
> -Faux "simple solutions, cheap" Pas

As you may have heard, we're having that "prob" here in Europe. In a few years from here we all (all the countries of the european community) switch to the *euro* as unit of money.
Its a whole change. Especially for the older people! They'll have huge probs with the switch. For us youngsters its not gonna be that hard, but its still gonna be weird. (i'm receiving my paycheck now already in two money-units; euro and belgian francs - to make the switch easier - but i never look at the sum in euro - maybe i should start doing that to get familiar with it)

I'm really worried about people like my grandpa and grandma, all of sudden they have to pay in Euro (which has - of course - an other base than francs)
My girl is a teacher and she teaches the kids already 'bout the new system, which is good, but i hope they dont change things too much.

(they already changed the whole spelling-system since i was in school)

Personally i really think you, Americans, should change to our Metric system! lol


Jom"wanna-visit-Europe-to-see-how-GOOD-(some)-things-work-here?"meke

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