Imperial Measures

I can recommend a striped effect from tester pots.

Beware magnolia - it might be cheaper but it's for people who can't make up their minds.

Please tell me this is a joke, someone

Or has Boris really turned into the White Rabbit? ?

'Mushroom' was very much in vogue mid 1950s - the Elephant's Breath of its day.

25Avalon

OakDryad

Read the thread 25Avalon. The EU did not make us take the Crown mark off. The failure of the UK to repeal it's own 1988 legislation which did not allow for two marks did that.

Quite interesting when you look into this and beware of newspaper sensationalisation. From what I can gather the EU legislation was that we had to have CE stamped on the glasses to show the legal measurement. The crown was permitted to remain as decoration only and was not allowed to be confused with the CE mark. Our Civil servants interpreted this as CE only and Tony Blair refused to listen to the major breweries who pleaded for the crown to remain.Now the CE mark is not necessary the crown can come back to its full glory.

I also read glasses were being imported cheaply from Chechoslovakia where they were automatically stamped CE with no crown.

The glasses could be made cheaply in China, now the UK is out of the EU, like the LED light bulbs.

I purchased a house in the 80s which was painted entirely in mushroom, apart from the spare bedroom and bathroom. And it had parquet floors. Everything was brown (not for long!).

Thank you mokryna. Probably. There was I hoping it could stimulate the UK glass industry, new factories recycling used glass cullet and using green energy.

I am too often tempted to convert my weigh-ins to kilos, then I would have no idea just how heavy I have become☹️

We already use a mish mash of Metric and imperial
Measurements.
Our roads are in miles not kilometres.
I don't know anyone including younger generation who doesn't weigh themselves in stones and pounds.
Just recently on gransnet there was a thread asking to describe ourselves, anyone giving their height did so in feet and inches.
When buying shoes it's a size 6 for example not size 39 .
Bra size also in inches .
Waist and trouser lengths usually in inches
I know I need a 31 inch leg in trousers wouldn't have a Scooby do in metric .

Yes, that's just how it is, cherrytree. In those calculations that work out one's BMI, I put my height in feet and inches and my weight in kg. Daft because I know both in both, iyswim, but I've known my height for longer.

Actually that's daft too cos I weigh the same as I did when I was 15.

I like the harmless daftnesses of life.

The harmless daftnesses of life.

www.mentalfloss.com/article/25845/quick-6-six-unit-conversion-disasters

Like plane crashes and overdoses.

Oh, for God's sake, volver! I was talking about my own life.

I very much doubt that pilots are allowed to use different units from standard (not even Americans!), just as they are all supposed to talk to air traffic control in English whatever their first language is.

Oh for God's sake Baggs!

Stop thinking everyone's out to get you!

Obviously didn't read the article then.

And OF COURSE there will be accidents and mistakes. Because we're human. Not all of us are misery-gutses though.

I did read the article.

The god's sake was not in defence of myself. It was a comment about your attitude.

Oh give over.

OF COURSE there will be accidents and mistakes? Your plane ran out of fuel? What do you expect? We're only human!!

Re-introducing Imperial measurements doesn't just let those who like to live in the past have easier lives.

BTW - I know my weight in stone and lbs, I measure distances in miles and I buy potatoes by the pound. But I don't expect the world to go backwards to make my life easier either.

BTW - I know my weight in stone and lbs, I measure distances in miles and I buy potatoes by the pound. But I don't expect the world to go backwards to make my life easier either.

Why is it going backwards? The change is just so that people can use whichever they prefer, surely? 'Allowing' the use of imperial measures is simply discarding an unnecessary rule, imo.

Clearly unnecessary if it's still possible to buy potatoes in pounds in spite of the rule.

Clearly unnecessary, definitely. So why is the government even suggesting it?

IMO, and it is my opinion, of course, they are suggesting it so that their core voters will think the Tories are all for getting away from the EU and taking us back to the glorious past when we were at the head of the empire. Its not called Imperial for nothing.

So where does it stop? The guy selling potatoe's (sic) by the pound or the international collaborations made even more complex because we measure volumes in cubic yards?

Baggs

^BTW - I know my weight in stone and lbs, I measure distances in miles and I buy potatoes by the pound. But I don't expect the world to go backwards to make my life easier either.^

Why is it going backwards? The change is just so that people can use whichever they prefer, surely? 'Allowing' the use of imperial measures is simply discarding an unnecessary rule, imo.

I would still question if this is the best use of the MPs', the Cabinets', and the Civil Servants' time, Baggs.

It's just Boris clinging on to power, isn't it?

I have never heard anyone ask for a "litre" in a pub?
It ain't broke don't fix it.. springs to mind.

Given that we currently buy items with both weights (for example) on the pack, why it helps to only have pints, gills, ounces etc makes no sense to me. It has to lead to mote confusion for someone and possible errors.

Will we still have the nutritional values in grams or will some packs have these in ounces and fractions of an ounce?
That would be annoying.

BTW, I do look back fondly to the posh frocks being sold in Guineas!
Fabulous!

NotSpaghetti

BTW, I do look back fondly to the posh frocks being sold in Guineas!
Fabulous!

Not forgetting art and horses.