What would you prefer to the reintroduction of imperial measurement?

I don't think it matters that much. When I go in the greengrocers I buy what I need and in the butchers I use I always ask for things in pounds or half pounds. I always get the amount I want. It doesn't seem to be a problem to them.

narrowboatnan

Who’s in favour of using Roman numerals?

I for one ?

Oh yes, love them!
But I'll have to do some revision.
And Roman coinage

I'm going out with my metal detector tomorrow to see if I can find some aurei or denarii in the back garden.

paddyann54

Can I put in a plea for a return to the EU it might just get our economy back on track,trying to keep all the older generation by changing back to imperial wont do anything except make the younger generations totally peed off

Not just the younger generations, paddyann

I’m 73 and although we used the Imperial system in primary school once in secondary we went over to the metric system. There is no comparison. Metric is simplicity itself, especially when dealing with physics. The idea of changing back is ludicrous.
The whole charade is simply another of Boris’s dead cats.

GagaJo, you took the words out of my mouth.

Can I put in a plea for a return to the EU it might just get our economy back on track,trying to keep all the older generation by changing back to imperial wont do anything except make the younger generations totally peed off

I’ll happily do without imperial measures if he would abolish changing the clock twice a year!

It is still possible to ask for "une livre" (a pound / 500ish grams) of fruit or vegetables in France. Younger folk look a bit blank but the older ones know what you mean.
That is after a couple of hundred years. ?

Two tweets from Weights & Measures inspectors:

I’m a Weights & Measures inspector and knocking 50 and I’ve never learned or been trained to use imperial measures at school or work! There is no equipment in the UK for a ‘return’ to imperial for trade.

Too true. As a former W&M inspector myself, I know that imperial local standards have been disposed of. The cost of replacing a national imperial standards system in financial, legislative and time terms would be considerable. I joined in 1968 and metric was already in place.

Or am I being too much of a misery guts?

Yup!

Granny23

The repair as opposed to the new build sector of the building trades requires imperial measurements to be available. Otherwise how could they repair or replace windows, doors, the kitchen sink etc in properties built before decimalisation??

I live in a 300+ year old house. My builder has managed perfectly well over the years with replacing all the windows with 2x glazed units, completely replacing the upper floor in half of the house and with building us an extension. It's not exactly an insuperable problem.

narrowboatnan

Who’s in favour of using Roman numerals?

I for one ?

Brilliant ?

Great place to start would be the multimillionaires in the cabinet giving a s**t about the poor in Britain.

I know I know. A stretch and never gonna happen.

Bring back the stocks for lying MPs
Bring back nationalisation of the railways and utilities.

Sussexborn

We all seem to have been coping with mix and matching since decimalisation, Some of the local market stall holders still haven’t gone metric.

I am sure we won’t starve as various EU members on other forums keep hoping.

If completing a few forms confounds you then perhaps it’s safer to stay at home.

Am I allowed to say that metric measurements are nothing to do with decimalisation, and that neither are anything to do with the EU?

Or am I being too much of a misery guts?

We all seem to have been coping with mix and matching since decimalisation, Some of the local market stall holders still haven’t gone metric.

I am sure we won’t starve as various EU members on other forums keep hoping.

If completing a few forms confounds you then perhaps it’s safer to stay at home.

Who’s in favour of using Roman numerals?

I for one ?

Sago

It’s nothing more sinister than a nod to our wonderful Queen to mark her jubilee.
The crown will once again be on the pint/half pint glasses.

I really try not to be sarcastic but sometimes it's difficult.

It’s nothing more sinister than a nod to our wonderful Queen to mark her jubilee.
The crown will once again be on the pint/half pint glasses.

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

What next pre decimal currency again just more distraction from the governments behaviour.

The repair as opposed to the new build sector of the building trades requires imperial measurements to be available. Otherwise how could they repair or replace windows, doors, the kitchen sink etc in properties built before decimalisation??

Bra size in inches, goodness knows what it would be in metric

I think we're muddling along with a mix of both systems as we are without any changes.
Leave well alone, Boris.

We're British, we're supposed to be eccentric!!

Honesty, integrity and a commitment to the public's wellbeing.