RIP Metric System

Uther said:
No because it will make it look even more expensive.
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Look being one of the main reasons tile and carpet places like to sell things by the square yard.
I think psycological they thing enough people think "a yard is roughly a metre".

Which isn't too bad when talking about linear stuff, but square is where they get people, as 0.9144^2 = 0.83612736m². A pity tricky sellers seldom have any qubic yard stuff to sell as 0.9144^3 = 0.764554857984m³.
 
n111ck said:
Its the link to brexit thats causing the froth not the actual idea - which as pointed out earlier in the thread has been coming for several years.
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Nope, it's the fact that our government insist on wasting time and money on utterly trivial irrelevant nonsense, trying to take us back to some rose-tinted imperialistic era of history, whilst we are rapidly approaching a cost of living crisis which is going to significantly impact a large proportion of the population.

They could give people that money to literally set fire to and it would have a more positive outcome since it would at least heat their home slightly.
 
Haggisman said:
Nope, it's the fact that our government insist on wasting time and money on utterly trivial irrelevant nonsense, trying to take us back to some rose-tinted imperialistic era of history, whilst we are rapidly approaching a cost of living crisis which is going to significantly impact a large proportion of the population.
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Thats a lot of froth which proves my point.

This was planned for several years and unless you can prove to the contrary has no bearing on the cost of living crisis.
 
n111ck said:
I’m not convinced
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Of course not :)
n111ck said:
- decriminalising something absurd
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What was criminal that needed decriminalising?

As apart from the over zealous application of the EU law, by our own people around 2000 which gave rise to the 'metric martyrs' then traders are allowed to sell goods dispalying imperial measurements anyway as long as it shows metric too.

The froth was always from the anti-EU brigade that took it up as another faux symbol of EU overreach, when in reality all it was was to standardise the units of goods across the single market, which is mundanely sensible. And no-one cares today, apart from a few old codgers and gammons, even in this thread the best defense you get is some weak indifference towards it.
 
Agreed Labour are to blame here.

But people keep saying its trivial and people dont care but look at the froth in this thread.

We are not in the single market so what the EU does is irrelevant and there are numerous examples in this thread where metric is not the favoured system here so its only right that we have the choice.
 
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Haggisman said:
So you are categorically stating that £0.00 has been spent on this proposal?
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Are you categorically stating that money has been diverted that was due to be used for the cost of living crisis?

This has been in the offing way before the crisis - in fact cancelling or postponing would just be a waste of money.
 
n111ck said:
Are you categorically stating that money has been diverted that was due to be used for the cost of living crisis?

This has been in the offing way before the crisis - in fact cancelling or postponing would just be a waste of money.
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So where has that money come from? Unless I'm very much mistaken, we don't exactly have a surplus of funds for important things like healthcare, education, social care, police officers etc., and haven't had for quite some time now, so I'm not quite sure how anyone can support frivolous spending on what is basically just some politician's vanity project - but please, by all means feel free to list some of the tangible benefits this could possibly give us vs recruiting more police officers and nurses or better resources for schools and colleges?
 
Puzzled said:
They'll be bringing back the old money system next, we'll be trying to work out what on earth farthing, Ha'penny, thrupenny bit, sixpence, shilling, two bob bit, half crown means.

Think jacob rees-mogg will cream his tiny whities if that happens.
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Better that than the euro lol
 
Haggisman said:
So where has that money come from? Unless I'm very much mistaken, we don't exactly have a surplus of funds for important things like healthcare, education, social care, police officers etc., and haven't had for quite some time now, so I'm not quite sure how anyone can support frivolous spending on what is basically just some politician's vanity project - but please, by all means feel free to list some of the tangible benefits this could possibly give us vs recruiting more police officers and nurses or better resources for schools and colleges?
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The money has already been spent is the point I’m making - and that would have been before the current crisis making your point redundant.

I’d also imagine this would come from a different budget.
 
n111ck said:
The money has already been spent is the point I’m making - and that would have been before the current crisis making your point redundant.
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You seem confused, they are setting up a consultation on it now, that is the money I assume Haggisman is talking about. And it's not just about the money, I thought we had to move on from Partygate to tackle the important issues the country faces? This is frivolous at best.
n111ck said:
I’d also imagine this would come from a different budget.
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Same pot of money though, no matter how you slice it
 
Freakbro said:
You seem confused, they are setting up a consultation on it now, that is the money I assume Haggisman is talking about. And it's not just about the money, I thought we had to move on from Partygate to tackle the important issues the country faces? This is frivolous at best.

Same pot of money though, no matter how you slice it
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Well I’d imagine the frothers would support the £0.5m wasted on the partygate report over nurses.. so its all relative..
 
Minusorange said:
A day is 24 hours, a rotation of the Earth is only 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds, Earth revolves around the sun 365 days, 5 hours, 59 minutes and 16 seconds, so even with a leap year it's still not totally accurate, we should strive for a more accurate measurement of time that syncs without any rounding errors for days & years if days are complete rotation and years are complete orbits
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Measurement of time is more practical than scientific if we were to follow strict sidereal time for instance we'd get out of sync with the diurnal cycle fairly shortly if the clock says 3pm but its midday by the sun then theres going to be an issue.

Puzzled said:
Some market traders might start using it again but no one else is going to bother with the expense.
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Not even that its not worth the hassle. Its a total non-story.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Return of pounds and ounces is a 'hassle' and 'too far gone'

A market traders chief warns a return to imperial measures would not be beneficial aside from nostalgic reasons
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
 
n111ck said:
The money has already been spent is the point I’m making - and that would have been before the current crisis making your point redundant.

I’d also imagine this would come from a different budget.
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"A different budget" - well that's OK then, I assume that's "a different budget" that isn't paid for by taxes which could have otherwise gone to something useful? Obviously not. Maybe the "budget for things which are a waste of money" should be reconsidered when many of the budgets for important things are insufficient?

And how long ago exactly are you suggesting this money was spent, since I'm pretty sure e.g. the police and NHS have both been underfunded for over a decade

Puzzled said:
At least you can understand the Euro, old money was based on the troy system of weighing precious metals and makes no sense at all.

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Yeah, but when your economy is in the toilet, you might as well flush :cry:
 
n111ck said:
Well I’d imagine the frothers would support the £0.5m wasted on the partygate report over nurses.. so its all relative..
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Of course not, as it was entirely Boris' fault the £0.5M was wasted!

He could have a) not have broken the law in the first place or b) owned up and not lied about it continuously forcing there to be such an expensive investigation then we would have had that money to spend on other more important things.
 
Freakbro said:
Of course not, as it was entirely Boris' fault the £0.5M was wasted!

He could have a) not have broken the law in the first place or b) owned up and not lied about it continuously forcing there to be such an expensive investigation then we would have had that money to spend on other more important things.
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Or just not waste the money on such a pointless witchhunt…
 
Haggisman said:
"A different budget" - well that's OK then, I assume that's "a different budget" that isn't paid for by taxes which could have otherwise gone to something useful? Obviously not. Maybe the "budget for things which are a waste of money" should be reconsidered when many of the budgets for important things are insufficient?

And how long ago exactly are you suggesting this money was spent, since I'm pretty sure e.g. the police and NHS have both been underfunded for over a decade



Yeah, but when your economy is in the toilet, you might as well flush :cry:
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Has anyone actually got any evidence that money is being diverted or is this just hypothetical?
 
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