English units of measure (and a touch of Brit lit)

[Sarah]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn" <kcawte at n...> wrote:
>  
> Dungrollin
> 
> As for the money issue, I've never understood why people think it's
> something worth conserving for the sake of it.  

 There are plenty of reasons for and against Britain
> joining the Euro, but sentimentality for the pound is (IMHO) the
> least convincing.
>  
> 
> 
IMHO its not so much sentimentality as wanting to maintain an 
individual identity.  We're only a little country (in the grand 
scheme of things) and maybe some people think we'll be swallowed 
whole by Europe, and all our little British ways wiil be lost, and 
out cucumbers and bananas will be straight and we won't be able to by 
a quarter of cherry lips anymore ...
Having said that I think probably the main reason people object is 
because nobody likes change (and lets face it, when we were still the 
world's superpower we instigated changes elsewhere that folk rebelled 
against - big style).
So my argument is flawed, because when we're doing the changing we're 
quite happy - it's when it is imposed that we start stamping our feet 
and shaking our fists like irate garden gnomes!!
But it's not sentimentality - it's fear.

Just my 2p
Sarah xxx