Lootman wrote:XFool wrote:Genuine choice, OK. Continuous proliferation of spurious "more choice" nonsense - I choose "No!"
You object to other people having a choice that you personally have no interest in?
How would you be harmed by that? Scott/Swill ran away when I asked him that question, but perhaps you will not?
OK then. Let's have some real choice of wine sold in bottles on shelves:
5mL
10 mL
25 mL
50 mL
100 mL
250 mL
300 mL
500 mL
600 mL
700 mL
750 mL
854 mL
900 mL
1 L
Half a gill
1 gill
2 gills = 1 chopin
4 gills = 2 chopins = 1 pint
8 gills = 4 chopins = 2 pints = 1 quart
16 gills = 8 chopins = 4 pints = 2 quarts = 1 pottle
32 gills = 16 chopins = 8 pints = 4 quarts = 2 pottles = 1 gallon
etc.
(With thanks to D Knuth, "Seminumerical Algorithms")
Anyone for fluid ounces?
Who could possibly object?