Johnson’s Government

It is only 44 years, not 50 jura - give us a chance!!

Old boys whose education included a lot of Latin and Ancient Greek may have missed out on some basic numeracy.

sorry jura, I am imperial through and through. I always convert back.

All the babies I get told of have their weights in pounds and ounces. Good job - I wouldn’t know otherwise whether they were tiny or hefty!

Where? Hospitals and GPs, midwives, etc, only use metric and have done so for a VERY long time.

I didn’t say THEY didn’t jura2

The parents must do the conversions - which is why I never get told ‘baby weighed 3.2kgs (or whatever).

Surely I’m not the only grandma on here who got told about their new family members birth weight ‘the old way’!
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I can just imagine the scenario - oh we must announce the birth to old Auntie Urmston- get the calculator out ahahaha

My daughter and daughter in law were told in pounds the weight of their babies. My grandchildren are between the ages of 10 and 2. NHS maternity ward. To be honest I was expecting to hear it in kilos but no, they used pounds.

Went to a material shop in 1973- and wanted to buy 1m50 of seersucker. The price was on the roll per metre - it took the shopping assistant about 10 minutes to convert my 1m50 and then the price - I just could not believe my eyes.

Mind you, I bought a simple watch in Switzerland not long ago- 50% off - and it was 90 francs. The young girl had to use a claculator to work the price out - flabberghasted- and maths is not my forte either.

Remember the fab days in the mid 70s when they sold carpet with the price given per square yards, sold in 2m or 4 m width by the linear foot. What (non-sensical) fun!

calculator and flabbergasted - must be careful. Big brother is watching ;)

That was a bit harsh jura2 in my opinion.

I truly don’t think I’m ‘old Auntie Urmston’ - I bet nearly everyone gets told the converted weight.

Unless you grew up in Europe of course and learnt metric straight off at infant school.

We didn’t over here, of course.

Our ways must seem quaint by comparison.

No you certainly are not the only grandma to be told birth weight the ‘old way’ Urmstongran. Both mine were reported in pounds and ounces. Nothing wrong with that at all!

jura2 do you have to be quite so nasty?

But the young people here now all think in metric. My DGC are aware there is such things as feet and inches but would not be able to use them. Why should they go back to something that is not mathematically logical? Absolute nonsense from JRM.

I was told the weight of my babies (both born in the 1990s) in kilos. I don't even know their weight in lb oz. They certainly don't even know their height in any other than metres and centimetres. JRM knows people will see him as somehow erudite and respecting British values. More fool them rather than him (he knows what he's doing).

It bemuses me how many snowflakes there are on this site.

not a snowflake or a fan of the tophatted toff but I always do Imperial.

I have no idea about metres and I always convert kilos back to lbs.

My comment was about us grannies, growmore
Of course all our grandchildren only know their heights in metric.
It was ‘our’ generation that got taught Imperial then had to relearn.
Kids today have grown up only knowing metric.

Which was kind of my point.... grannies are often more au fait knowing a baby’s weight in old money.
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'That was a bit harsh jura2 in my opinion.' well it was tongue and cheek and in jest- and also in shock at the thought you are the same age as my youngest daughter.

But if it caused offense, I do apologise.

Re or new- learning is not always easy - took me my fist 6 months in the UK to not only learn a new language, and about Imperial measures, shillings and pence, in 1970... and when I came back 1 year later- had to forget it all. Take 2 driving licences driving on right with LH vehicle, then all over again t'other way round. It certainly did NOT take me nearly 50 years, and maths never been my strong point.

btw, I have old fashioned scales, with a full set of Imperial and Metric weights - and my cookery books are in both. My initital Be-Ro book was fully Imperial, second one has both. Good for ze little grey cells.

jura2 you are mixing me up with lemongrove tonight.
She was born in 1975.
I was born in 1954.
Our eldest daughter was born in 1977.
My age is very similar to yours.

Thank you for the apology though.
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P.s. don’t you just love how threads morph?
This one is entitled ‘Johnson’s Government’ and here we are digressing, talking about babies’ birth weights and ‘BeRo’ cookery books.

At this time of night I think I quite prefer the meandering!

Jura2 Fri 26-Jul-19 21:49:51
I can just imagine the scenario - oh we must announce the birth to old Auntie Urmston- get the calculator out ahahaha

On a roll today?
Insulting as many people as possible?
Does it make you feel good/superior/better than the rest?
Or was it revenge for the idiomatic English lesson?

By the way, thank you Boosgran

Well you are all wrong because JRM will use chains and furlongs and rods and perches for measurement.

I like it, GillT57!