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Boris Johnson reveals plan to bring back pounds and ounces: PM sees 'no reason why people should be prosecuted for selling goods in imperial measures after Brexit
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 21:15 EST, 6 December 2019 | Jason Groves

Posted on 12/07/2019 7:04:44 AM PST by Olog-hai

Boris Johnson has revealed plans to bring back pounds and ounces once Brexit is done as he attacks Jeremy Corbyn as “the most extreme Left-wing candidate produced by the Labour Party in a century” entering Number 10.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Daily Mail, the Prime Minister laid out his post-election blueprint to lift the EU ban on imperial measurements and hark back to the old system.

He said: “We will bring back that ancient liberty. I see no reason why people should be prosecuted.”

The Conservative leader added: “I think the reality is a lot of people are now educated in the metric system; we have to recognize that. But people… I understand what a pound of apples is. I also understand what a kilo of apples is. There will be an era of generosity and tolerance towards traditional measurements.” …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: bojo; borisjohnson; brexit; brexitparty; englishsystem; europeanunion; eussr; fourthreich; gobrexit; imperialsystem; jeremycorbyn; johnson; labourparty; metricsystem; nato; nigelfarage; ounces; pounds; unitedkingdom
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To: dsc

Punishing high treason by hanging, drawing and quartering, which also sometimes included disembowelment, is part of their history.

AFAIK, they haven’t outlawed attainder either.


41 posted on 12/07/2019 8:30:31 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

They should bring back the old money system too...shillings, crowns, guineas. While it was a little cumbersome to learn, once you did it was way more functional.


42 posted on 12/07/2019 8:38:55 AM PST by Edward Teach
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To: jmacusa; JudyinCanada
Canadians hate us.

Judy Canada doesn't.

She's a great Freeper.

43 posted on 12/07/2019 8:39:24 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: pepsi_junkie

I’d be happy if everyone learned to pronounce kilometers correctly. It’s kilo-meters, NOT kil-O-meters. Meter, centimeter, millimeter, kilogram, kil-O-meter...wait what? How do you get that?


44 posted on 12/07/2019 8:43:30 AM PST by Edward Teach
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To: Edward Teach

Money’s value would have to be worth something then, or else the farthing (¼-penny) would cease being minted quite fast.

Guineas at one time used to be equal in value to the pound at 20 shillings, but the increasing value of gold bumped that up to 30 shillings, so the value ended up fixed at 21 shillings for 151 years. The name came from Guinea in West Africa, where they got the gold to make the guinea coins.


45 posted on 12/07/2019 8:47:09 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Edward Teach

I’d like to hear “centimeter” pronounced with the accent on the second syllable, like we do with “kilometer”.


46 posted on 12/07/2019 8:49:05 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Lol - thanks, Whitey!

Some Canadians don’t hate America, and President Trump, but the numbers are pretty low.

Canadian love Obama. Canadians are ill informed and pathetic. Don’t forget, we’re much further along the socialist slide.


47 posted on 12/07/2019 9:02:20 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Olog-hai

I want pounds, shillings and pence.


48 posted on 12/07/2019 9:02:43 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Every election is more or less an advance auction of stolen goods. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Olog-hai

I gonna have to sit in the pub and consider this over a 568.261 ml.


49 posted on 12/07/2019 9:04:54 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Every election is more or less an advance auction of stolen goods. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Olog-hai. The odd part is, WHY would anyone agree to such a stupid police state feature in the first place? Go, Boris!

50 posted on 12/07/2019 9:05:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Florins, half-crowns, sixpence, threepence, ha’pennies and farthings too?

The diameter of the old British penny is the same as that of the US 50¢ coin, BTW. Those are the pennies that used to go on the eyes of the dead.


51 posted on 12/07/2019 9:05:56 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

And don’t for get the Halfpenny, Farthing, Guinea, Crown, tuppenance, thrupance, bob, tanner or half-shilling.


52 posted on 12/07/2019 9:08:41 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Every election is more or less an advance auction of stolen goods. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Leaning Right

Great suggestion! We have only one requirement for Hungary’s entry—they must build the wall that Mexico will pay for! Let’s make it the full 2000 miles while we’re at it too (with a possible raincheck for the same to the north).


53 posted on 12/07/2019 9:12:53 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Olog-hai
Those are the pennies that used to go on the eyes of the dead.

Those are the pennies they used to place on the governor of Big Ben to keep it in step with the sun.

54 posted on 12/07/2019 9:14:41 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Every election is more or less an advance auction of stolen goods. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Some of them are nicknames for the same coin, e.g. bob = shilling (12d), tanner/half-shilling = sixpence (6d).

The “tuppence” (2p) came to be with decimalization, and the old Roman-based denominations (s for “solidus” and d for “denarius”, but not £ for “libra”) were dropped.


55 posted on 12/07/2019 9:16:42 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: jmacusa

Okay, I understand even Alberta isn’t conservative conservative. We seem to have our substitute in Hungary!


56 posted on 12/07/2019 9:20:02 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Olog-hai
FIFY: decimalizsation

I know. I started a person study of old British coinage and terms for fans of pre-decimalisation British fiction.

The score of 26 at darts (one dart in each of the top three spaces) was sometimes called "half-a-crown" as late as the 1990s, though this did start to confuse the younger players. 26 is also referred to as "Breakfast", since 2/6 or half a crown was the standard cost for breakfast pre-decimalisation.

57 posted on 12/07/2019 9:28:31 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Every election is more or less an advance auction of stolen goods. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Olog-hai

I corrected myself in the next post but it proves my point: km and grams are not at all intuitive to me, I have to think about in spite of having a degree that required me to use them four four years. Imperial units are effortless and instinctive to me. The difference between education and experience.


58 posted on 12/07/2019 9:58:58 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Edward Teach
In the Army it is, or was, pronounced "klicks". 😁
59 posted on 12/07/2019 10:03:10 AM PST by skepsel (I miss William F. Buckley and the old Firing Line)
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To: 9YearLurker

My daughter-in-law is from Alberta. She has never expressed an interest in going back.


60 posted on 12/07/2019 10:03:57 AM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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