Posted on 05/28/2022 12:01:12 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
Boris Johnson will pave the way for the return of pounds and ounces in British shops this week, in a "common sense" move heralded by Tory MPs as taking advantage of freedoms delivered by Brexit.
On Friday, the Government will publish proposals to repeal EU-derived law requiring metric units to be used for all trade, with only limited exceptions.
At the same time, ministers will issue guidance to firms on restoring the use of the crown symbol on pint glasses, after it was replaced by the CE marking to help the UK conform with EU rules.
A government source said: “We Brits measure our walks in miles and our beer and milk by the pint. And nobody knows what a 4.5kg baby looks like, but we all know a 10-pounder is a whopper.
"It’s time we held our heads high about our long history of traditional measures.
“And what better way to celebrate Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee than restoring the crown emblem back onto the side of pint glasses so that we can toast her health and service to this country.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“… kilograms measure mass not weight or force…”
True. Just as “slugs” do. But neither are subject to the changing effect of gravity, so they are constant no matter where they are in the universe…as far as we know.
Then you have bathroom scales that measure in pounds and kilograms. Ha!
Never forget that “inches” once saved the Hubble Telescope.
The telescope was going to be brought in for repairs. There was a Canadian arm that was supposed to grab the telescope and bring it into the Space Shuttle. The arm had troubles, so an Astronaut had his feet strapped down to the shuttle and reached out to grab the telescope. As the telescope was being lowered into the shuttle the astronaut was given instructions ... a few inches to the left ... drop it down about 6 inches ... a couple of inches to the right ... None of this 17CM to the left or whatever ... it was inches that saved the day.
I simply don’t care either way. I use both systems interchangeably and can convert from one to the other in my head.
When Boris learns to comb his hair, maybe someone will listen to him.
Um, so can Fahrenheit temperatures.
What is stupid is using Celsius for everyday weather and indoor temperatures. Celsius might be fine for the laboratory, but it makes no sense in the real world. In Canada, vehicles with auto temperature HVAC increment their settings in half degree intervals. In the US, one degree increments work perfectly. And we all know that when it hits triple digits, it's going to be a scorcher. The rest of the world can keep their stupid metric system. It's only positive point is that it's a base ten system. Other than that, it makes no sense at all.
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This is great! Go, Brits!
I will never understand how anyone could not prefer metric. I am perfectly comfortable with both and tend to regard anyone who isn’t as a mental retard, even a below average child can easily learn both.
What’s really funny is that Ben Franklin helped create it, and Thomas Jefferson pushed hard for it because having the US, France, and everyone but England on one common system would have been to our advantage.
The intuitive advantage for common people for the Fahrenheit scale, is that 0 to 100 degrees expresses the range that most people would experience (at least in the UK)
“The intuitive advantage for common people for the Fahrenheit scale, is that 0 to 100 degrees expresses the range that most people would experience (at least in the UK)”
Also most people can tell/feel the difference in temperature at at about 1 or 2 Fahrenheit degree increments so it is intuitive in that sense also.
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