Suggestions, and a request for these to be forwarded on to the organisations and individualsâ?¦[article contributed by PB]
WEATHER PRESENTERS
For them to archive the F word and give temperatures only in degrees Celsius.
TV WEATHER PRESENTERS
For them to start showing wind speeds on their maps in km/h. Speeds in mph could be given orally for a limited time.
NEWSPAPERS INCLUDING WEB MEDIA for the UK
For them to start showing wind speeds on their maps in km/h.
COUNCILS
For them to adopt full metrication in all areas. This includes the metric pricing for allotment charges.
TRADING STANDARDS OFFICERS
For them to enforce metric pricing and ensure that market traders FULLY comply with the regulations.
Iâ??m sure many more can be added to this list.
How about we all learn our height and weight/mass in metric? As a GP, it is so much easier to perform BMI calculations, drug dose calculations in metric. Also, one odd thing I have noticed: people who think in metric tend to be more fit and healthy. I suppose it is very difficult to take up a fitness regime without understanding metric these days, as all the machines and calculations are in metric.
Just weather presenters? These suggestions should be expanded to cover the whole media, particularly the BBC since it is publicly funded. There is too much inconsistency on their TV, radio and Internet output in so far as measurement is concerned and if they made it policy to use metric in all news reports people would soon get used to it! Isn’t their moto “To educate and inform”?