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Like anybody really gives a feck about pounds and ounces 🙄 Well maybe they do lol...can't believe what sort of numpty he appeals to !
Oh no!! Brexit not going quite as well as hoped
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Not tinpot, surely. You don't seem to understand that, freed from the shackles of Brussels, imperial measurements are going to re-introduced. This means that the Empire will live again in our hearts. Or something.
Actually I suspect that l.s.d. might be at the back of this announcement ...
deptfordmarmoset
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LSD = Look Somewhere Different?
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There has never been a ban on shops displaying things in pounds and ounces if they choose to...a few independent shops near me still do.Hes running out of ideas,he's a dead man walking and will do and say anything to try and cling on.
I'm guessing this is to appeal to his core no bendy bananas,taking back control voters...I can barely look at the prick,let alone listen to him.Theyll be a time when he's gone and those around him that either fear him or just plain lick his arse are going to think WTF did we do !
I'm guessing this is to appeal to his core no bendy bananas,taking back control voters...I can barely look at the prick,let alone listen to him.Theyll be a time when he's gone and those around him that either fear him or just plain lick his arse are going to think WTF did we do !
Rusty Nails
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I love him a bushel and a peck,
A bushel and a peck, I do like feck.
A bushel and a peck, I do like feck.
The Crofted Crest
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newfhouse
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Foot fetishists.
I believe this is what is known as the 'f' word ...
Bromptonaut
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I'm 62 and we stopped using imperial measures when I was around 8; year 3 in modern terms. New textbooks etc preparing us for decimal currency also used metric measures.
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It's madness to me...we still go for a pint or measure things in miles if we choose to.Dont see the big deal.
Bromptonaut
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Drink pints and use miles per gallon with the car. In France 25cl is as near to a half as makes no difference and a 'serieux; is all but a pint.
Even without an ap on the phone dividing litres by 4.546 is easy peasy.
Badger_Boom
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Likewise. I’m 50 and have never been taught, or needed to know anything else. What a load of tosh.
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On the other hand, I'm 56 and first started work as a Decorator for the local authority (Council) and the chap I worked with as an apprentice was probably mid fifties at the time in '82 all measuring of wallpaper was taught in imperial. We were also given standard minute values for every painting task which again was imperial, per running foot of window bar for example.
My father was an engineer and worked in 'thou's ' which we all know isn't a thousanth of a centimetre.
But there you go, I'm sure the Cycle chatters know better and of course if another little piece of 'Britishness' can be removed from the world the more you folk like it. đź‘Ť
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Mugshot
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You could always move to America, or Liberia, if you love imperial measurements so much.
deptfordmarmoset
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| Length | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nautical mile | nmi | 6,076 feet, or 1.151 miles | 1,852 metres |
| mile | mi | 5,280 feet, 1,760 yards, or 320 rods | 1,609 metres, or 1.609 kilometres |
| furlong | fur | 660 feet, 220 yards, or 1/8 mile | 201 metres |
| rod | rd | 5.50 yards, or 16.5 feet | 5.029 metres |
| fathom | fth | 6 feet, or 72 inches | 1.829 metres |
| yard | yd | 3 feet, or 36 inches | 0.9144 metre |
| foot | ft, or ' | 12 inches, or 0.333 yard | 30.48 centimetres |
| inch | in, or " | 0.083 foot, or 0.028 yard | 2.54 centimetres |
