do you guys help newbies??

[Jo Stoller]

Mikael Olofsson wrote:
>My boss' favourite story about the UK is from approximately
>30 years ago [...] After some detective work, he realized
>that "a Unit" referred to BTU, yet another unit that
> is only used in anglosaxon parts of the world.
>I guess he concluded that you cannot trust the British
>people with any measurements.

Tell your boss that the UK has come a long way in the last 30 years or
so. It decimalised the currency in 1971 and it is now in the last
stages of conversion to the metric system.

UK gas and electricity tariffs are now 'pence per kWh'.