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  1. Ton

    Tonjytyke Well-Known Member

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    You’re right of course. We joined the common market in 1973 but we had been metric since 1971. I know this because we discussed it in the mount over a couple of pints.
     
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    John Peachy, May 29, 2022
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    Surely a couple of .50L beers.
     
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    I do not discuss politics I was merely replying to a comment
     
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    I am not for one minute suggesting we go back to it , but there are elements of the imperial system that everyone uses despite what age they are , MPH for example also measuring a cricket wicket or when my wife goes to slimming world her weight gains/losses are always given in lbs & stones , running the systems in tandem is not a problem & allowing this to happen legally makes sense , there is no way a butcher for example should be made to sell meat in metric measures only when tradition dictates it is sold in imperial , but the consumer will decide in the end , but no one should be accused of being stupid for using imperial when it suits .
     
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    They are currently allowed to display prices in both
     
    mansfield_red, May 30, 2022
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    Still pints of milk at Asda. The carton we have in our fridge is labelled as both "4 Pints" and "2272ml". I can't imagine my wife asking me to nip out for 2.272 litres of milk. :)
     
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    We were taught imperial measures by reciting them like multiplication tables .
    I also whilst studying A levels worked at a local bank manually converting all customer account ledgers from pounds, shillings and pence to decimal. Without decimal, electronic calculators would never really have taken off in the UK.
    For all you 'young'uns..... 16oz =1lb. 14 pounds= 1 stone. 8 stones= 1 hundredweight (cwt) . 20 CWT=1 ton. (Domestic use Coal was always delivered by the CWT).
    Money was even more complicated. 4 farthings (if you can remember that far back = 1d (old penny). 2 halfpennies = 1d. 12d= 1 shilling. 20 shillings = 1 pound(240 pennies in a pound). Further complcations were the different denominations.... threepenny bits, sixpences 2 shillings and sixpence (half a crown) , 5 shillings = crown. 10 shilling notes, pound notes (not coins) . and then there were guineas (21 shillings).
    And don't get me started on distance and volume measurements e.g. inches, feet, yards, rods, poles perches, chains, furlongs etc! 1 mile was 1760 yards (5280 feet) , gills pints quarts gallons etc.

    It is a wonder our generation could get their heads round all that. Rote learning though, means,after all these years, I can still remember it all in spite of it being totally obsolete. ( although horse racing fans still stuck in the past, recognize furlongs);)
     
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    I’ve been shrinkflationed! I knew for a fact that our milk (Arla - the only thing I will touch) is 2l but went to check anyway.
     
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    It is legal to do that. Nothing stops a butcher or anyone else from listing pounds and ounces too. The law says metric must be listed, not that imperial can’t be. You can put any measurement you like next to the metric one so long as it is true. The only reason they don’t do both currently is because no one cares.

    The law change they are proposing is that metric would no longer have to be listed. So, where you could now have:

    - metric only
    - metric and imperial
    - metric and anything else you fancy

    It would become:

    - imperial only
    - imperial and metric
    - imperial and anything else you fancy
    - possibly metric only? (Not sure if they’re just saying you don’t have to have metric or that you can’t just have metric without imperial alongside. I think it’s the former but not sure).

    The problem would be when a shop stocks different brands of things that use different systems. In Morrisons, Surf liquid detergent is £3 for 648ml and Persil is £7 for 1.62l. I can compare these easily as they both list price per litre (Surf is £4.63 and Persil is £4.32). If, in future, Suff stayed as metric but Persil sold in imperial measures, how are people supposed to easily compare £3 for 648ml and £7 for 57 fluid ounce? (Surf is still £4.63 per litre and I actually don’t know how to work out the price for the other one). Then, you’d get brands switching between the two for their own different sizes so you can’t compare easily (e.g. the multiple bottles of sizes and types (glass, squeezy) of Heinz ketchup). There needs to be one standard system in place. Even fully imperial, god help us, would be better than companies deciding to do whatever they want.
     
    JamDrop, May 30, 2022
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    No idea what you mean…

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