the foot has stayed the same! Gadzooks! Now that... 
scares me
the foot has stayed the same! Gadzooks! Now that... scares me
Arch, is that you?
Great point, oh Great One! The primary problem with the metric system (aside from its French origins) is that it has no purely human referent. A foot...well, MY foot, for example, is exactly one foot long. An inch is the width of a thumb...and MY thumb is exactly one inch across. Horses are measured in “hands” of four inches - and mirabile dictu, MY hand is four inches! When it comes to measurements I guess I’m just lucky! :-) Now, the human variation in appendages would not make any individual the benchmark for science...but if I want to move something an inch, a foot, a yard, I can get there with a quick approximation using my body as a tool. Using the metric system, there is NO human relationship to ANY unit of measure; it is UNnatural, inhuman, arbitrary, and unrelated to our everyday knowledge and experience. So just chalk metrics up to the insanity of our Froggish brethren (and cistren) - I’ll keep my old-fashioned and ever-handy inches, thankyewveddymuch! :-)