RIP Metric System

Kelt said:
When are we going to get tanners, threepenny bits and farthings back again.

I used to be able to go down to my local post office/grocer at the bottom of my street and get a bag of sweets for a farthing.

Miss those days.
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We had a coinage attempt at metric in Q.Victoria's reign, one type of florin ( 2 shillings) had 1/10th of a pound on it, that same coin became our modern 10p
 
**Checks we are in GD** Ah yes, lazy stereotypes mode engaged

In my experience the dumb americans are generally maga loons, and align with our Brexit thickies, no material difference in intelligence and lots in common in regards lack of critical thinking skills
The intelligent americans tend to be really smart again much like the really smart UK based people

The only real difference I would say is that as americans tend to be loud, they have a habit of broadcasting their idiocy further and wider
 
n111ck said:
That's weirdly anal but then I guess that's what this is really about - if you crave EU clipboard rules then metric is king.

The rest of us will stick to pints and quarter pounders...
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I don't "crave" any rules - you seem determined to think of anyone who disagrees with you as a rabid bureaucrat.

Metric makes more sense to me and I want to use the same system as most of the rest of the world - it'll be marginally more convenient when I go abroad. I have absolutely no attachment to imperial, it does not form part of my identity as a British person: THAT would be weirdly anal.
 
n111ck said:
So to put it another way if metric was scrapped would you still insist in asking for a litre? I suspect no so why has imperial persisted? Because its part of the national identity and should remain a choice.
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No, I’d ask for X quarts of 5W40, though Imperial fluid measures are horrifically archaic and no-one on the planet uses them as even the Yanks made up their own fluid measures which are considerably different to Imperial.

The Metric system is just so much simpler and more elegant.
 
inogen said:
No, they shouldn't. That would be utterly ridiculous. Perhaps companies should also be allowed to set their clocks however they like too? Before you call out strawman, explain to me the difference. Standards are standards for a reason. If you haven't thought about what that reason is, or don't understand it, you have no business sharing your ridiculous opinion about it unless your intention is to come across as an idiot.

I am very au fait with both imperial and metric measurements as I used to work in a brewery. Having to switch between the two, not only in terms of production, but also plant was and is a complete pain in the **** and a waste of everyone's time and money.

It should be totally illegal to sell anything that requires quantification measured in anything but standard, metric gradients. By all means display an equivalent, or use different nomenclature, but the standard is the standard. 568ml of beer please barman. Call it whatever you like. And top it up please.
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I'm not sure if this is a serious post or not :confused:
 
n111ck said:
Its what people understand it to be that's important and why there should be a choice. If I order a quarter pounder I know what to expect the actual specific weight in grams is irrelevant.

Ordering a 226g steak is just plain weird.
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No, you understand what "a quarter pounder" means in terms of a burger.

If someone tried to sell you a quarter pound of anything else you wouldn't have clue. It's a name. Not a weight.
 
  1. a hamburger that weighs a quarter of a pound.
The Quarter Pounder is a hamburger sold by international fast food chain McDonald's, so named for containing a patty with a precooked weight of 4 oz, a quarter of a pound. It was first introduced in 1971. Wikipedia
So it is a weight.
 
Rilot said:
Why would they do this? What benefit does it bring?
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They will say perhaps its due to the traditional UK way or something.

But I think it opens up supermarkets and the like profiting from customers confusion if they start selling only under the non metric system as many people were educated under metric only.
 
Graetzbridge said:
  1. a hamburger that weighs a quarter of a pound.
The Quarter Pounder is a hamburger sold by international fast food chain McDonald's, so named for containing a patty with a precooked weight of 4 oz, a quarter of a pound. It was first introduced in 1971. Wikipedia
So it is a weight.
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Ironically, you don't get a quarter pounder when you order one given that the weight will have reduced after cooking.
 
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