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The metric system is conquering Britain, inch by inch.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Oh deity/higher being - if we vote to leave the EU, the nutters will want the Imperial system back.
Let's raise 3 fluid scruples / 1/8thfl. oz. to metric!
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Keith Barrow wrote: Let's raise 3 fluid scruples / 1/8thfl. oz. to metric!
To be fair, it's a lot easier to measure out 1/2, 1/4, 1/8th or 1/16th of something than 0.1 
And if we stay in the EU, our beer measures will probably be reduce from a pint (568ml) to 500ml 
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: And if we stay in the EU, our beer measures will probably be reduce from a pint (568ml) to 500ml
It wouldn't be because of the EU, it would be because of the pubs selling less beer to the same price. While blaming EU.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: less beer to the same a higher price
- AND blaming the EU at the same time as you said!
FTFY! 
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It was a joke
But you probably weren't aware that people have been prosecuted here in the UK for using imperial measurements Metric Martyrs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^] - ultimately because of the EEC/EU weights and measures directive.
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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TBH, goods can be sold in any quantity. The directive is to do with pricing to metric units and that the metric measurement should also be available.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: The directive is to do with pricing to metric units and that the metric measurement should also be available.
So basically changing what people have used here for centuries, at pain of prosecution/loss of livelihood? That's progress, I guess? 
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: It was a joke
I thought as much, I'm just a very cynical person.
And as for the other part is just about fighting windmills.
What's the problem with having a mark on the glass saying 568ml when you sell by the pint?
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: What's the problem with having a mark on the glass saying 568ml when you sell by the pint?
For one, it's easier to ask for a pint after a few pints.. 
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Have you ever heard anyone try to order 568ml of beer ever?
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In Europe and Russia I've ordered half litres.. Don't try and take our extra 68ml away from us here though!
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Maybe someone tried to but didn't live to tell about it 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I can see that you're familiar with our public houses.. you should try the ones in North Wales
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I like the whole "metric martys" thing. Poor little Englanders standing up to the EU bully-boys, at least that's how it was pitched. Every time Thoburn's greengrocers appeared on TV, Steve Thoburn was dressed like a barrow-boy, in front of a pathetic little cart monging his costers and complaining about the EU not allowing "Great British Pounds and Ounces. That was the image. In reality Thoburn's basically has a town-wide chain of several shops and a couple of barrows selling to passers-by. How do I know this - the warehouse is not more than 5 mins walk where I'm sitting now. It's well known locally the family is minted too, far from being the humble men-of the people shown, Steve Thoburn's son drives a Bentley, with a "THOBURN" private plate.
He wasn't prosecuted for selling in pounds and ounces - he was prosecuted for his inability to sell in metric too, you can still go to the shop and buy a quarter of sweets - they'll say they have to sell you 125g. This is BS, there is nothing stopping them selling you 113g as long as it can be read from the equipment, they simply don't understand the law.
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Keith Barrow wrote: He wasn't prosecuted for selling in pounds and ounces - he was prosecuted for his inability to sell in metric too
To be honest, I'm indifferent to this individual guy. But I think if a culture has a way of doing things that they've used for some time and are comfortable with, what gives an outside organisation the right to come in and change that?
We've seen the outcomes already across the middle east after trying to force western-style democracy and freedom on various nations. From my perspective, I can see similar grievances across the EU today and have no doubt that it'll end up the same way if local cultures and customs aren't respected.
Just sayin' 
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Keith Barrow wrote: there is nothing stopping them
Indeed there is not but it would be unfair to say that the metric martyrs and their ilk had no hand in this. The original directive would have required exclusive use of the metric system from 2009. Opposition led to the UK Government arguing for and obtaining an indeterminate extension of the right to use dual units.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I don't know about anyone else, but I tend to use a mixture.. metric for weights and short lengths (up to about 20m) but imperial for distances and heights.
It's a lot easier for me visualise 10 miles than 16km or 1000ft high instead of 330m
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: metric for weights
Well that's barking! Everybody knows what an 8lb baby, a pound jar of jam, a 12 stone man, and 2 ounces of mixed herbs looks like. I find it not difficult but impossible to visualise metric weights.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: I find it not difficult but impossible to visualise metric weights.
That's one of the perks of a mixed O-level and GCSE education - it makes you bimetrical
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Well, apart from it being completely untrue, the problem set being totally unrelated to the example, and the parameters being unspecified (what the blurb is room temperature?), yeah!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Think, man, think!
The System used in the US is because we knew - well in advance - that the computer age would come and rule.
Start with an Ounce.
22 ounces is a gill
23 ounces is a cup
24 ounces is a pint
25 ounces is a quart
27 ounces is a gallon.
So - obviously this is much better represented in a computer's binary data storage.
Far far advanced relative to your round-off-error-prone metric mess.
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Bah... just means you folks aren't very good at math. 
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OK, so quick without Googling (and no you can't Bing it either  ) what's the heat of vaporization of water?
(Hint, it's not the 1 joule/gram/deg C that the sunshine who wrote that seems to think is the only number needed to answer the equivalent question in the metric system.)
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