Turbodick said:
I'm surprised the Canadian Metric Nazi's don't make the weight/height in Kilograms and Metres, then no one would know what the numbers mean anyway.
Definetly don't know what Nazi stand for! I'd LOVE to take all these peoples who uses the NAZI word to describe anything they don't agree to and do to them 1/10 of what the Nazis did... That would be bloddy interesting...
FYI Turbo, to go with your line of thinking, besides USA, the entire planet must be Nazi, because USA is the only place where the Metric system isn't used officially. Why is this? Because Americans could't adapt in the 70's when it was introducted and some political instance wasn't brave enough to stand up. There's no advantages whatsoever in using the inches, pounds, feets... It's a system based on nothing and who's confusing as hell, where Metric is based on somthing concrete and is easy to use since it rely on a "base 10" numbering. Did you know 200 pounds don't mean anything on the moon but 100kg still remains 100kg over there? Even NASA uses metric!
As far as why pounds, inches and feets are used in the escort world, I'd say one reason would be clientele from USA. The other being the "hybrid" generation like me, who were raised in both systems. To me, height in centimeters is meaningless, same as liquid measures in ounces.
Ounces, talk about a complicated measure! Can be liquid or weight! And a gallon, imperial or US? In metric, a liter is a liter and it's liquid, a gram is a gram and it's mass.
Need to fix a car? What's the damn ratchet size? 9/16 or 1/2? In metric, it's 10 or 11mm, the bigger number si bigger, easy, no fractions!