RIP Metric System

robfosters said:
The level of outrage people are showing to this is quite hilarious.

I couldn’t give a toss either way, nothing will change. Pubs will still serve pints, we‘ll still have mpg, supermarkets will still use Kg and grm, fruit and vef stalls with use pounds and ounces, nothing will change.
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I agree, I fail to see why the government needed to say anything, it’s not very Tory to interfere like this unless, well, Boris and JRM want a different headline.

It is only a review however, what a waste of money, again.

How do the imperial zealots feel about rebranding to farenhiet?
 
I think it'll be another success story, I mean just look at the rush and worry to get hold of a blue passport, wasn't there a dedicated thread about it here? Whilst he's on a roll, maybe he could rescind women's voting rights, too ;)
 
Imperial is so useless, nobody uses it or likes it, apart from OAPs I guess?

Rest of us and the rest of the world use metric.. why change anything. So silly.
 
Our only legal exceptions to the metric system are to use miles/yards for distances on the road, and pints for beer/cider on tap, and milk. That's it. Otherwise we should be metric for everything - allowing imperial units alongside metric for 60 years has been the reason we never finished converting fully to metric. We should have been fully metric by the end of the 70s, but nooooo let's just kick the can down the road. All this can-kicking means it's more and more expensive each year to convert all our roadsigns to use km.

And it's not an EU thing, considering we started converting to metric in the 60s, the decade before we joined the EC.
 
Unfortunately this will only impact businesses. Currently most used their own standards anyway but with the EU close by the use of metric has been heavily adopted.

I agree basically this is to cause outrage to distract from party gate. Anyone know what bring your own 750cl bottle will be in metric to advise the tories?

Unfortunately it makes the conservatives look like/confirm they are clowns. They are the party of take the country back to the victorian times. In fact the time is right to make a modern Conservative party - with free market ideals but without harping back to the JRM sponsored victorian times.
 
Chris Wilson said:
Well it's wasted on me as my attention has never been ON "Partygate". I realised long before I even left school that authorities operate in a "Do as we say, not as we do" manner and acceptance of it conferred some peace to everyday life. :)
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No they don't. That type of thinking is exactly why Beergate was pushed so hard by the tory client media, make everyone think Starmer is a morally bankrupt as johnson.
 
NickK said:
Unfortunately this will only impact businesses. Currently most used their own standards anyway but with the EU close by the use of metric has been heavily adopted.

I agree basically this is to cause outrage to distract from party gate. Anyone know what bring your own 750cl bottle will be in metric to advise the tories?

Unfortunately it makes the conservatives look like/confirm they are clowns. They are the party of take the country back to the victorian times. In fact the time is right to make a modern Conservative party - with free market ideals but without harping back to the JRM sponsored victorian times.
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But wataboutCorbyn! Dianne abbot!
 
Thread title is like a headline from The Guardian.

How does giving retailers the option to use Imperial measurements mean RIP metric?

So dramatic.

Like most people born in the 70s / 80s I use a mixture of both. People should be free to choose. If it were "You must not use metric any more" then that would be different, but that isn't what this is.
 
So much reading - so little understanding - typical GD thread I suppose :D

It's odd to see that people are reacting to news thats already nearly 2.5 years old as if it's brand new "OMG" info is puzzling. Did they forget, did they never hear of this 2.5 years ago, are they reacting "for show" just because they can? - who knows, only they do.

2019 - "Boris Johnson reveals plan to bring back pounds and ounces"

2019 - "Au revoir le kilo and welcome back pounds and ounces as Boris promises return to imperial"

So just to re-cap on the history on this decision - On the 1st Jan 2000 it became illegal in the UK to sell items using Imperial measurement (lbs & oz) only whilst showing both Imperial and Metric together was allowed, and multiple shopkeepers were convicted of breaking this law and given large fines, being called "Metric Martyrs". However, as briefed by the vice-president of EU Gunther Verheugen as late as 2007, the EU never actually told the UK that this must become a "criminal offence" specifically stating that "the use of pre-2000 weighing instruments in imperial-only units" had always been legal in EU law and that "the Directive does not prohibit the use of such instruments.". In 2010 there was supposed to be a new directive completely banning the use of any imperial units irrespective on them appearing alongside Metric ones, but this was scrapped after so many complaints from companies around the world (mostly American), every UK road sign having to being replaced etc.

So basically the UK poorly implemented a "directive" back in 2000 and made something illegal which was never supposed to be because, as ever, common sense left the room. So as part of the UK's post-Brexit agreements Boris Jonson, wayyyyyy back in 2019, said that he would consider removing the badly implemented UK law (which was based on the EU directive) and make it legal again (but not mandatory) for shop keepers to use Imperial measurements if they wish as he was aware that most people in the UK were, by now, happy with the metric system.

So all this made-up panic/outrage over "if you want to use Imperial measurements to sell things you can" - Good Job GD, never change :D

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