Reintroducing Imperial measures…..

Frost telling us that the Brexit project is going really well while the supply lines are collapsing and we can't fill all the available jobs. But never mind, pounds and ounces, Crowns on the pint glasses and lots of British values on TV. Hooray!!

We can do more than one thing at a time. Progress can happen in tandem Alegrias! As you must know.

Alegrias1

Blossoming

Alegrias1 groats, bushels, pecks, rods, perches!

Hogsheads!

Avoirdupois ounce and Troy ounce...

Let's start a campaign right here to get rid of those foreign words that describes our wonderful British system.

Urmstongran

^Frost telling us that the Brexit project is going really well while the supply lines are collapsing and we can't fill all the available jobs. But never mind, pounds and ounces, Crowns on the pint glasses and lots of British values on TV. Hooray!!^

We can do more than one thing at a time. Progress can happen in tandem Alegrias! As you must know.

Frost telling us that the Brexit project is going really well while the supply lines are collapsing and we can't fill all the available jobs.

He's either a liar or he's incompetent.

Not sure which would be worse.

Moving back to the system of measurement invented by the Sumerians and that we used in the 12th century isn't "progress".

Urmstongran

^Frost telling us that the Brexit project is going really well while the supply lines are collapsing and we can't fill all the available jobs. But never mind, pounds and ounces, Crowns on the pint glasses and lots of British values on TV. Hooray!!^

We can do more than one thing at a time. Progress can happen in tandem Alegrias! As you must know.

You are correct; they are capable of making a complete bollocks of more than one thing at the same time.

While telling Scotland "Now is not the time, you should put all of your efforts into COVID"

Riverwalk

My children are 43 & 39 - I still have the little card tags from their hospital cots and the weights are in kilos.

Amazing!

I have 4 children mid 20s - 40s. All of their weights were imperial

Same for all my grandchildren. Age ranges from 2 - 16

I have never met anyone who told me the weight of their children in kilos

And why do people care so much about this? It seems to be those opposed who are the most upset.

All it is doing is making it lawful again to use Imperial measurements.

But it does seem to be upsetting the better educated amongst us!

rosie1959

That would be too scary Whitwavemark2 doing my Tesco shopping over 4 bob just for a cucumber

It would be 17 shillings for a first class postage stamp now.

I remember stamps for 3d and you could get a reply by return of post from over half way across the country.

I remember an issue of a model railway magazine had an advertisement about some new scale model buildings and if one sent a stamped addressed envelope one could have a free colour leaflet about them. It was many miles away and the leaflet came by return of post.

Oh the hours I spent at primary school adding up £sd and converting to and from pennies.

I mean, looking back at it, £sd seems like some peculiar system made up for a fantasy novel about a mythical magic kingdom.

In later years I thought "Once they start making pound coins so that they can be used in slot machines inflation will be really here!"

And when they did make them they were golden, like something from a fantasy novel or a board game.

I genuinely admired the beautiful shape of a fifty new pence coin, the original large ones. That had something of the special nature of British invention and ingenuity about it.

MaizieD

USA don't use quite the same measures as us. Try using a US recipe.

I don't think it's anything to do with the US. It's just about appealing to the insular Brexit voters.

When I go to my local market I’ve always asked for my produce in pounds, is that a problem with , for baking I sometimes use metric, American cups, or yes pounds and ounces. I would calling just using one measure, inusular. Why insult people you don’t, and never will, know??

By the way, anyone ever been in a pub and asked for 500mls cider, or 2 litres of beer , in separate glasses of course!!?

It has always been lawful to use imperial alongside metric.
I don't understand why we should be rejoicing only having imperial.

At the butcher's and greengrocers you can still ask for "ein Pfund" (500g) or "ein Viertel" (125g) it anything. I have also heard "ein Zentner" (50 kg) for a sack or potatoes. So the words still exist, although the metric values have been around for much longer, of course.

This is interesting JackyB as the measures you quote are very much approximations. I suppose that's a bit like my 97 year old mother-in-law asking for "half a pound" of butter - though nowadays I think she just says "a pack".

At our nearest big market they measure out stuff in bowls

568 millimetres... how wide is your 5.68 centimetre glass Jane? How many fluid oz does it hold I wonder...
?

sssshhhhhhh they'll all be wanting one

Riverwalk

My children are 43 & 39 - I still have the little card tags from their hospital cots and the weights are in kilos.

My eldest is 40 and she has lbs and ounces on her card, must have been regional

Bra size anyone?

Does anyone know their bra size in metric?

Television size?

And what about all the road signs? Speed limits?

Metric hasn't made many inroads there

I've yet to see a sign in a 30mph area as 48.2803

Height? I think most of us will say that in feet and inches . Weight? Debatable. Unless you're a baby.

But you can mock and laugh at people who you think intellectually inferior Brexit voters, but in reality the last laugh may be on you.

Bit off topic but a bit relevant too...

When I moved back to the UK from France I brought my French Twingo with me. The speedo was in km/h and to pass type approval it had to have a speedo in miles per hour. I spent many hours on phones telling mechanics that no, they didn't need to change all the systems in the car, they just needed to replace the dial of the speedo with one that was printed in mph.

In the end I got a dial from the Renault main dealer in the area and Joe's Garage down the road changed it over for me.

I think we have been amazingly adaptable.
Young French people who have come to stay marvel that I know the temperature in C and in F.
I marvel too

Weights and measures are harder though.
I am a potter and I was taught that a lb of clay is the exact amount to make a mug or plate or bowl for a portion for one person. If for more people 2 ,3 or 4 lbs. So a casserole dish for 6 would use 6lbs etc. (roughly) not 2,72 kg
Bugger metric. I can't change now.
My NZ DGS was over 4.5kg at birth and I was supposed to be amazed. It meant nothing to me I was glad he wasn't 4 and a half lbs.

I have just had to measure 9 metres. I took extra large strides.

MaizieD included

> ... banana's (sic) ...

Oh laugh out loud, thank you!

Does anyone know their bra size in metric?

Yes, me! ?

Oh we had a twingo as a hire car once in Spain, it was brilliant. They never made them here did they? Like the screw top large bottles of San Miguel. They could have been amazing imports

But you can mock and laugh at people who you think intellectually inferior Brexit voters, but in reality the last laugh may be on you.

Anybody who thinks it is a priority to allow people to use pounds and ounces in a formal way in this country in this day and age, or who thinks that regressing to an archaic system that only the US, Liberia and Myanmar currently use, needs to recalibrate their expectations. You may think they are intellectually inferior, I couldn't possibly comment.

I find the "last laugh may be on you comment" quite scary, actually. Are the Imperial Measures police going to come and get us? Is that before or after they rename the place Airstrip One?

I don’t want to go back to using imperial measures. We already slip between metric and imperial quite easily, myself included. I weigh myself in stones but measure cooking ingredients in metric. Fluids are all metric but we still buy a pint in the pub. The mixed up system works perfectly well, and it should be left alone.

The Imperial Measures police sounds like an Indie band