Because they realized a long time ago that it sucked, but we, in our blind faith, kept on using it. Only now are we getting close to using both, and given annother 50 years, we might be using metric only.

...or at least by the time of Star Trek TNG...

/Pepijn

"United States of..." Smart-ass.

If we want to get picky, there's also Central/Latin America.

Bruno

Not that this discussion should be posted here (try off-topic), but take any number of those Brits from "Snatch" and they'd be able to eat my lunch for sure. Mr. Desert Eagle Point 5-0!

Greg

Homer - "Psshh. English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England!"

Greg

They taught me the metric system, but gave up when they realized we're too stoopid to uncode the S.I. system from our genetics ...

or something.

Hell, don't piss them off. They had enough criminals to start up a prison colony on a continent for God's sake...

but take any number of those Brits from "Snatch" and they'd be able to eat my lunch for sure.

Yeah, I was about to respond with the same thing: The entire cast of "Snatch", or perhaps "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels".

Great flicks.

A gun for show, a knife for a pro

Hugo

I'd rank the service of Air Canada somewhere in-line with budget airlines of the third world. What a complete POS. The worst flights I have ever been on (in terms of service and quality of the airplane) were the two AC flights I made last week.

The flight crews in BOTH directions were far more interested in chatting about their own little lives and squables than actually paying any type of attention to their passengers.

And don't get me started on the pathetic safety video on the miniscule monitors. And why having a second official language means undermining the service to English speaking travelers.

Bruno

Speak for yourself, yankee. The top half of North America (we cannucks) prefers English. And the lower quarter of North America mostly prefers Spanish. I believe it's just the folks from the narrow middle section of the continent that have trouble spelling words like colour, think a football is an oversized avacodo, and suffer from major hangups over sex and guns.

"suffer from major hangups over sex"

Excepting for the oral majority, I what we say and what we do are usually very different

Hey shouldn't you be off programming Hijackv137? hehe j/k. I guess the saying goes "tamateo, tamAto". Language to me is all the same thing as long as everyone just understands what your getting at. Color, Colour... same thing .
One last thing (totaly off the language subject).. I noticed today and last night how one little office being networked can turn into the whole building. hehe, i have to return monday to install a new router and connect about 4 more computers.. uhhh just let me finish my 5months left of highschool before im thrown into slavery.. Well now I have a little free time to work on empegweb. hopefully i dont get any more calls. I guess now I have money for a new server, a belkin kvm switch, and gps for my empeg... ahhh what a day.

-Greg

I have only travelled a couple of times with Air Canada,
And I must say I am impressed. They had much better
service than both Sabena and SAS which I used on
the same trip.

And excelent breakfast.

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)

Ebenezer Scrooge... Jack the Ripper...

6-pack of 1/3l, pint or 1/2l cans?

Yes, one continent for actual prisoners (those having been caught), and another for fugitives and an occasional landless noble

Or you could call them refugees from an oppressive tyrant.