the UK leaving the EU.... part 2.

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  1. Mr Badger

    Mr Badger Well-Known Member

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    Does that mean we can revert to feet and inches, pounds and ounces (all of which I still use) and stop all the stupidity on television of presenters quoting distances in kilometres but still saying in the same sentence that something is so many feet or yards away etc.
    All road signs are in miles in UK so why do they try to ram kilometres down us.
    Even on radio 5 football you hear the idiots presenting it saying that so and so is metres away yet we still have an 18 yard box and a penalty spot at 12 yards and a 6 yard box.
    And then there's cricket... 22 yards equals one chain, and long may it continue !!
     
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    Do the French have a six yard box.

    Is a French wall 10 yards from the fee kick...


    Tax on beer is also by the pint - even within the EU we can show our gritty determination to hold onto measurement systems that don't make any sense.
     
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    For anyone under the age of about 40, most of the old measurements mean absolutely nothing. I know what most of them are, but rarely use anything other than miles - that is just too ingrained...
     
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    Absolutely the LEAST of our problems.....
     
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    I hope not. The miles usage makes sense and the cost to reverse would be astronomical but elsewhere, metric all the way.
     
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    some on here still deal in groats
     
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    Absolutely bang on. Why anyone would want to give up the metric system is beyond me. Our old measurement systems are archaic in the extreme.
     
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    and can I call a Spade a Spade

    :p
     
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    can we get fuel pumps to read in gallons too oh and.......

    the price on the signs to how much it is a GALLON.... then we can really see how we are being fleeced.... and the funny thing is we all refer to a cars fuel consumption as MPG so why not ??
     
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    Re: can we get fuel pumps to read in gallons too oh and.......

    Nae point. No one can afford to put a gallon in.
     
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    Most girls know the differance between 6 and 12 inch!

    Sorry, i just had to :)
     
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    A couple of weeks ago a youngish couple came into my local in Dodworth. The bloke came to the bar and ordered a sparkling white wine, a mineral water and a bag of slüt and vinegar crisps. He also asked for the WiFi code and if he could pay contactless.

    He was told that they don't serve sparkling wine or mineral water (unless it was the sort that comes out of a tap), there's no demand for salt and vinegar crisps, they don't have wifi and they only accept cash.

    They couldn't believe that the couple walked back out. What's the problem with moving with the times?

    And before anyone points it out, I spotted the mistake with the crisps but it made me giggle, so I left it in...
     
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    Thankfully my Mrs doesn't :-d
     
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    Working in mm in architecture I shudder at the thought of trying to figure out fractions of inches.
     
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    Sorry but she does.

    Just doesn't want to hurt any feelings. ;)
     
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    :-D
     
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    length or girth?
     
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    Going to be boring now, but beer is only sold in pints (or parts thereof) - it's taxed in hectolitres. Bit of an odd one.

    I automatically think of a gallon as being eight pints, so it always feels a bit odd to see it applied to petrol.
     
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    I did read something years ago about a joint space mission with the Americans and another country that instead of settling into a nice orbit around a planet (might have been Mars) just crashed disastrously into the planet at full velocity. Turns out in the inquest that for the calculations the Yanks were using feet/inches and the partner was using metric measurements.
     
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  20. Farnham_Red

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    Do you want to bring back pounds shillings and pence as well?

    For most things the Metric system makes far more sense and our use is not really linked to whether we are in or out of the EU. I dont see a problem with allowing products to be sold in both units though if you really want
     
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