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Post by Dougs on Sept 16, 2021 20:42:38 GMT
Quite nick, quite.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 16, 2021 21:04:23 GMT
It’s mental. I don’t know a single person who has ever mentioned wanting pounds and ounces back and I know some proper little englanders.
I can’t recall any of the usual media fuckheads whining about it, either. It literally feels like a ‘I bet they do this next’ joke.
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Post by stuz359 on Sept 16, 2021 21:04:25 GMT
As a design engineer, the thought of going to pounds, ounces, inches, yards, feet etc horrifies me.
Can't imagine it happening. we have had metric standards for years that have been integrated with most of the world. Literally the only country that maintains imperial standards of measurement is the USA. Which is ironic because they fought a war to throw off the yolk of British oppression.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 16, 2021 21:11:45 GMT
As a design engineer, the thought of going to pounds, ounces, inches, yards, feet etc horrifies me. This is the thing, you wouldn’t. This is just to allow vendors to sell in imperial measurements again. Vendors who would purchase their stock in metric. It’s not a return to imperial, it’s just a pathetic two fingers to the EU, telling them we can sell in ounces now if we want to. It’s more fantasyland bullshit from people who think housewives still do their shopping at a market and that people think the EU imposed an awful metric system on us. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 16, 2021 21:14:20 GMT
On us and every country in the world bar America, apparently
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Post by drhickman1983 on Sept 16, 2021 21:15:43 GMT
As a design engineer, the thought of going to pounds, ounces, inches, yards, feet etc horrifies me. It’s not a return to imperial, it’s just a pathetic two fingers to the EU, telling them we can sell in ounces now if we want to. Sounds like they're signalling some sort of virtues. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 16, 2021 21:23:07 GMT
It is genuinely pathetic. 'we can buy a pint of milk again'. We literally always could. Not once in my life have I considered that I was buying 568ml of milk.
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Post by technoish on Sept 16, 2021 22:23:40 GMT
It's a funny one. I absolutely think imperial is stupid for any kind of numbers work.
But I get that it's nice to use something with a name in every day use. Like talking about a pint, or saying 6 feet instead of 183cm.
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Post by Lizard on Sept 16, 2021 22:35:57 GMT
Imperial measurements are moronic.
They'll leave the 'British TV' thing really vague so they can jump on the bandwagon the next time gammons get uppity about something they've seen.
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Post by reddevil93 on Sept 16, 2021 22:44:37 GMT
It's a funny one. I absolutely think imperial is stupid for any kind of numbers work. But I get that it's nice to use something with a name in every day use. Like talking about a pint, or saying 6 feet instead of 183cm. Yeah, we’re banned from saying pint here in Ireland. God damn EU. |
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Post by 😎 on Sept 16, 2021 22:58:42 GMT
"568ml? That's very nearly an armful" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Post by X201 on Sept 16, 2021 23:01:43 GMT
On us and every country in the world bar America, apparently Don’t forget Liberia & Myanmar too |
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Post by suicida on Sept 16, 2021 23:09:36 GMT
I don't think the Imperial measures thing is even about appealing to their own supporters, cos like you say nobody even mentions it. It's purely to annoy their enemies in the "culture war". The Tories are borrowing from Trump but putting a British toff cunt spin on it, it's all about "owning the libs" and nothing more. Judging by the posts in this thread it's having the desired effect.
It's fucking stupid.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 17, 2021 5:27:47 GMT
That may well be true. I don't really care, as ultimately nothing will change, but it's just so divisive. Entirely unnecessary.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Sept 17, 2021 5:47:57 GMT
Just been reminded of the time that our new Foreign Secretary stated that barking dogs can deter drones.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 17, 2021 7:04:21 GMT
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 17, 2021 7:12:41 GMT
The more you look at it the more it looks like they were just rubbing shit on their faces to knock universal credit out of the news cycle.
Even by their standards yesterday’s announcements were ridiculous and they must have known that.
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Post by TheSaint on Sept 17, 2021 7:22:54 GMT
This sums it up for me:
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Post by Dougs on Sept 17, 2021 7:24:36 GMT
Yeah, it probably was just another distraction.
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Post by Dgzter on Sept 17, 2021 11:24:31 GMT
Slight tangent from the imperial chat, but this will surely work out well:
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Post by clemfandango on Sept 17, 2021 11:30:21 GMT
Slight tangent from the imperial chat, but this will surely work out well: So her one qualification for the job is the colour of her skin... This couldn't be anymore Tory if it tried |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2021 12:05:02 GMT
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 17, 2021 12:23:29 GMT
Slight tangent from the imperial chat, but this will surely work out well: So her one qualification for the job is the colour of her skin... This couldn't be anymore Tory if it tried Surely the Tories would never stoop so low as to do something like virtue signalling? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2021 15:24:54 GMT
I would not be surprised if some gammons demand we go back to shillings and pence
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Post by X201 on Sept 17, 2021 15:53:32 GMT
Sod that new muck.
Bring back the Groat
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Post by Dgzter on Sept 17, 2021 15:55:46 GMT
Yikes. Looks like one senior backbencher didn't get the memo. I suspect Sir Roger will soon very sadly accidentally brutally cut his own head off whilst combing his hair:
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Post by spacein_vader on Sept 17, 2021 16:20:11 GMT
Slight tangent from the imperial chat, but this will surely work out well: So her one qualification for the job is the colour of her skin... This couldn't be anymore Tory if it tried Why do you think Priti didnt get sacked? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2021 18:35:12 GMT
Why do you think Priti didnt get sacked? her skin tearing demonic powers? |
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Post by Techno Hippy on Sept 17, 2021 19:14:57 GMT
Even Boris knows that we don't need that creature with time to indulge her hobbies.
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Post by Danno on Sept 17, 2021 19:39:23 GMT
BoJo still wants to knob her
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