You mean they stopped selling in pints, really?
RIP Metric System
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Soldato
As does most of the 'English' language doesn't it? French and German...
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This is guaranteed ploy to make wagon wheels smaller, mark my words!.
As does most of the 'English' language doesn't it? French and German...
Well, I for one look forward to seeing the mail and express printed in Brythonic. Finally free of that anglo saxon germanic nonsense!
Soldato
This ******* unaccountable ******** of a corrupt government is just doing what it wants. The people don’t matter anymore there is no accountability.
They need dragging out of number ten what other way is there? It’s clear there are no repercussions anymore for any action they take. The longer this goes on the more they continue to shoot our own limbs off with utttrlu asinine **** like this no one asked for.
They need dragging out of number ten what other way is there? It’s clear there are no repercussions anymore for any action they take. The longer this goes on the more they continue to shoot our own limbs off with utttrlu asinine **** like this no one asked for.
Man of Honour
Even after all this time I don't know what a lot of metric sizes equate to.
For weight I'm only Stones and Pounds, fluid is pints but I can equate a litre to a bottle of coke.
I can quite accurately show you the size with my hands anything under 30cm but if I was told a person was 1.7 metres high I wouldn't have a clue but obviously that's very close to my height now I've looked at Google.
I would still be able to work in old money - pounds, shillings & pence and convert on the fly.
For weight I'm only Stones and Pounds, fluid is pints but I can equate a litre to a bottle of coke.
I can quite accurately show you the size with my hands anything under 30cm but if I was told a person was 1.7 metres high I wouldn't have a clue but obviously that's very close to my height now I've looked at Google.
I would still be able to work in old money - pounds, shillings & pence and convert on the fly.
Metric just makes so much more sense, water freezes at zero degrees C, and boils at 100c.... just one example.
Ok keep some legacy stuff like miles and feet, and maybe stones, but no one is preventing anyone from doing that, or ever did.
0 °F, was established as the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride... I mean, what am I supposed to do with that box of frogs?
Ok keep some legacy stuff like miles and feet, and maybe stones, but no one is preventing anyone from doing that, or ever did.
0 °F, was established as the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride... I mean, what am I supposed to do with that box of frogs?
The problem as I see it, is we have spent far too long as a "dual measurement" society and as such an entire generation (or more) has not "bothered" to adopt / learn metric fully, still reverting back to "familiar" measurements.
The end result is they are constantly trying to "convert" anything metric into imperial in their head, so naturally they never learn to ability to visualize / perceive what an object's size is if given in metric.
It's a bit like trying to learn a foreign language but constantly translating it back to english in your head, You will never truly learn the language that way.
Don
I don't recall there being anything stopping people selling things in imperial, as long as they also listed it in metric. Or am I remembering incorrectly?
I thought it was a snub on the queen (unless she endorses it) boris trying to steal some, look at me, limelight ... will he be wearing the builders hat with the flags wasn't it, like when he was toy-town mayor....
if any products were seriously repackaged in imperial units that would make them less likely to be imported into the EU; petrol back to gallons might be traumatizing, not sure when that had changed
chancellor is evidently not removing duty from food across the weekend to promote celibration, will probably need some of that french tear-gas to tone down the natives though.
It really does make a lot more sense to have base-10 setup, it's just far simpler to handle, even for complex calculations.
In that same vein, there has actually been a move towards defining measurements by "immutable facts", like the KG being a specific number of silicon atoms in a sphere etc. There was a similarity there with regards to the speed of light, rather than having some rather obtuse number (as it is now - 299 792 458 m / s) Why not make it 300,000,000 and "redefine" a meter based upon the time it takes light to travel etc..
It was never not allowed, but it does make good headlines for the right wing press, for thier flag waving readers to relish in.
Of course "Brexiter" and "Remainer" are just descriptions of whether you supported Brexit or remaining in the EU. However, this is far from the first time that a Brexiter has taken objection to the term as being a perceived insult and wanted everyone to move on. Strange that.
Soldato
Not true. Retailers have not been allowed to sell fresh produce by weight in Imperial measures since 2000, by decree of the EU weights and measures directive.
You've clearly not driven a car, bought a TV, monitor, some wood, visited a greengrocer or a butcher, or been to the pub since 2000, then,
And imagine costs of goods going up even more as the EU factories need to find the cost to change all the packing just for Little Britain
Suspended
Please tell me we aren't still teaching kids imperial or are about to do so again?
Well, one reason Celcius (which isn't the SI unit for temparature, as that's Kelvin) didn't catch on is that wasn't originally backwards? 0°C as the boiling point and 100°C as the freezing point.
Anyway, Celcius isn't even that logical or convenient (strictly it is not even needed for the definition of a calorie - the amount of energy required to raise 1ml of water by 1°C - as Kelvin uses the same scale), what is logical in the metric system is the easy instant conversion from length, mass and volume.
Can any imperial nostalgiacs instantly convert from a cubic yard to pints?
(A litre is 100mm³, so there are 1,000 in a cubic metre; one litre of water weighs 1kg so a cubic metre of water is 1 tonne etc.)
Calculate how much water it takes to flood one acre to a depth of one yard?
(A hectare is 100m x 100m, that is 10,000m². So a hectare flooded to 1 metre would be 10,000 tons of waters aka 10,000,000 litres.)
Thought not.
What the metric system did was to be consistent and logical - something imperial never did.
About the only merit of imperial is that people being forced to use might have a better handle on fractions... Unsure whether that is actually the case.
Oh for sure, but I dont want to boil my kettle on the top of everest, the bottom or the marriana trench, or on one of the moons of jupiter.
It's logical for humans to understand on planet earth, something imperial measurments are not!
Soldato
People have not thought this through. What would happen to all the metric cows that deliver their milk in litres? Plus we'd all need bigger pockets for the 240 pennies to the pound. The price of petrol would go up even more. petrol would go up from £1.82 to £8.25 a gallon. ( because no one clearly understands how quantities work) Everyone would need to have their 60L fuel tanks removed and replaced with a 13 gallon one, the expense would cost a fortune. Just glad I didn't throw out my old imperial socket set. What about the kids? They can't walk past a hole without a barrier around it for fear of falling in. They'd have some sort of panic attack if you asked em for a 9/16th opened end ring. Maybe they will let us call porridge gruel again like in the good old days??