Reintroducing Imperial measures…..

MaizieD included

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Oh laugh out loud, thank you!

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.

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.

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.

Television size?

Bra size anyone?

Does anyone know their bra size in metric?

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

sssshhhhhhh they'll all be wanting one

568 millimetres... how wide is your 5.68 centimetre glass Jane? How many fluid oz does it hold I wonder...
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At our nearest big market they measure out stuff in bowls

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".

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

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

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??

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.

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!

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"

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".

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.

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.

JaneJudge

It saves me asking for 568ml of lager when at pub now, that was a massive imposition. Coming over here changing our pints to 568 millimetres, what a liberty

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But the government make it SO EASY to have a go at them.

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!! And, apparently, the ability to put the initials letters of countries together to make up nonsense words.

(I saw your post about the crowns on pint glasses, thanks MaizieD)

MaizieD's comment was about people who think a return to Imperial measures is long overdue. If those people also happen to be Brexit voters...

Time for another thread on AUKUS anyone? I like the name.
A for Australia
UK for us
US for America

Clever. a name that identifies it’s grouping.

I do still cook in lbs and ozs and think of height in feet and inches, distance in yards and miles, also babies weights in lbs and ozs however my children and DGC have all learnt in metric grammes, kilograms, cms and kilometres and it would be very difficult to reverse it for everyone that age. I would not like to go back to pounds shillings and pence now as it would be very cumbersome and probably expensive for the Royal Mint to produce the coins again. Hopefully we can stay with the mix.

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.

I agree at least with cake making! I have a set of Australian cup measures that fit in with the USA, as far as I know.

Yesterday the announcement of the USA/UK/Australia pact re nuclear submarines is rather concerning.