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Leave or Remain?
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proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
We import in metric, we export in metric, but lets use a weird system internally where 16 of something is one thing and 14 of that is another. It's pure joy to the flag shaggers I'm sure, but it'll be dropped again almost immediately. So the real question is what is this to distract from, the fact that we now have a task force just for our food supply chain that no other country needs despite our problems definitely being covid not brexit?
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
I read this morning that the government are looking into passing a law which enforces public service broadcasters to produce programmes which are 'distinctly British' - whatever the hell that means.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...ohn-whittingdale-british-tv-rts-b1921183.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...ohn-whittingdale-british-tv-rts-b1921183.html
Theresa Green
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Is it alright to advertise a second hand Hansom Cab on here? Guv?
Businesses won't have to sell in imperial units but rather wouldn't be forced to sell in metric. it would be left to the individual what unit they wish to use. prosecuting a business for selling a pint of milk instead of 568ml of milk helps nobody. how is it a bad call to allow people to buy and sell in whichever unit they prefer
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Imperial measurements make no sense at all. I say this having been taught both imperial and metric as a child, then metric when in school and then when starting my first job, having to re-learn imperial. Then after a couple of years working in imperial, the company switched to metric as it was easier to order paper and materials as the suppliers all worked in metric.
I prefer metric - it's more precise - but still think of miles per gallon when working out fuel consumption and use feet and inches when describing someone's height. Basically I'm stuck between the two. I really wouldn't want the generations after me be stuck in the same cycle.
Imperial should have been completely scrapped when the UK changed to decimal currency. Just like it should have switched to kilometres for road signs and changed to driving on the right side of the road.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
This one is quite special, when it must be at least thirty years, or more, since anybody bought fuel in gallons.
This remains my favourite Brexit conversation.
I voted Leave.
Why?
We drink pints and we drive miles, we should never have joined.
How many feet in a mile?
Oh, I dunno, about a thousand..?
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Exactly my point. My head still works in mpg despite it being so long since fuel was sold in gallons. It’s mad.
BobClay
Well-Known Forumite
I imagine a lot of teachers will be utterly appalled at this. Have they got to start teaching imperial measurements to kids along side metric ? (because make no mistake scientists and engineers are going to give two fingers up to imperial.)
I am of an age where I was taught LSD money and imperial measure but as soon as I got to college and later the OU all that crap was binned. Sure there are some vestiges left over (I still think in miles but that keeps my brain ticking over converting to Klicks in my head.)
Fortunately Radio Engineering has been metric pretty much from square one: 208 metres, Radio Luxembourg, 1500 metres the Light Program (although when I was a kid the main radio in the house was a Rediffusion box with one knob marked A B C and D.)
I am of an age where I was taught LSD money and imperial measure but as soon as I got to college and later the OU all that crap was binned. Sure there are some vestiges left over (I still think in miles but that keeps my brain ticking over converting to Klicks in my head.)
Fortunately Radio Engineering has been metric pretty much from square one: 208 metres, Radio Luxembourg, 1500 metres the Light Program (although when I was a kid the main radio in the house was a Rediffusion box with one knob marked A B C and D.)
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
Of course, if you are talking about a 'quarter' with someone, both of you have to know whether the amount under discussion is four ounces or two stones - although it's usually obvious, some amusing confusion could occur.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
About four years ago, I offered to go to the Cop-op on Bodmin Avenue for an old dear who had forgotten to get her milk - she gave me the exact money for two pints - when I got to the till with my bottle with a big 2 on it, I did not have enough money.
This was because it was a 2 litre bottle - the 2 pint bottles were next to them on the shelf.