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March 3rd, 2002

Protesting with style. Splendid story in the Telegraph about a group who go around secretly replacing the few new ‘illegal’ metric roadsigns in the UK with their imperial equivalents.

I don’t have strong feelings about metrication, but I do admire the very British way in which they’re doing this. “We make sure the imperial signs are every bit as professional as the ones they replace”. A lesser organisation would just have spray-painted them.

Possibly related, but possibly totally unrelated, posts include
 "Happy talk?"  "In the interest of balance…"  "Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue"  "Sir Clive’s mini-bike

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