Well, since it isn’t in your back yard maybe you mean SI ?
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You’ve posted a lot in this topic! Consider giving others an opportunity to reply here and discuss things with each other as well.
Well that’s me told!!!
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Sorry folks, enough is enough, apparently 
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And I apologise for the digression.
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The resident Bot is getting very authoritarian, given me bad vibes again.
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Don’t think you digressed Bes!
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Then let’s stick to the topic.
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Ok, I don’t want to search my soul, so, reluctantly deter dedicated folks who knock my door and offer a possible solution.
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Actually it already has been re-evaluated, now it is exactly 0.9144 metres. However I understand the US Survey Yard is a tiny bit longer 
I checked it out in Trafalgar Square but this version is only accurate at a specific temperature ironically given in Fahrenheit.
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Yes, I knew that already. When I was school age we used Imperial units - feet, yards, pounds and so on but then with my further education it was all SI units. Just of interest my father used furlongs, perches, chains on the far. And yes, this is another another digression so I apologise Mr Moderator.
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Yes, there are likely to be problems when a journalist with little scientific knowledge tries to explain and simplify scientific theories to a very non-scientific reader. It becomes a form of le telephone arabe (French idiom for chinese whispers).
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Well, I didn’t expect so many replies, considering it was a bit
against some religious, practitioners, thank you all.
I must have had a premonition, Sutton Council, is not far from
me and they are advocating that loud Street Preachers get
their equipment removed and impounded!
Mike.
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I think it depends on the religion Mike.
Blasting away on loudspeakers in public is a bit too much.
I don’t think the ones knocking on yer door are the ones spouting in public places like the fire and damnation preachers.
I think Jehovah’s Witnesses and Plymouth Brethren etc are quite harmless really and just want to lend your ear…
Although the council in the news article does seem to be trespassing on the freedom to speak.
If that’s the case, they should be making it illegal for any kind of protest in London. Especially the flying of foreign flags and protesting about wars in other countries unless it’s the UK declaring war on someone.
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I don’t know, all will become clear next time someone knocks my door!
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If you run out of ideas just pretend you don’t speak English
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Done that!
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Did they speak the language of your choice?
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Many, many years ago I was in Germany when a Hari Krishna (remember them? are they still around?) came up to me in the street and started prattling on in German, I said, in my best schoolboy German, “Ich spreche kein Deutsch”. Turns out he was a yank and spoke English.
We chatted for a while but I was on my way to India and had a bus to catch.
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On the whole, one would imagine that the creator of all things would, if so inclined, be more than capable of putting us all straight without the need to whisper some stuff to a few folk in the hope that they not only can recite verbatim what this deity said, but also explain any nuances which no doubt would be lost within translation over the millennia through bias interpretation coupled with the natural evolution of language itself.
As for science…. one can only validate theories (based themselves upon axioms) if one has the ability to see totally reliable evidence.
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Why “All Things”, the flicker of the first domino has no idea just how many are going fall and in what order.
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