Blue passport my arse.

[TheYearOfSmallThings]

DS has just got his British passport, which is very nice, but not blue. At all. It is not navy, dark navy or blue-black, it is just plain black. Which is fine but...why say they are blue?!

Kilos and cms are the scientific measurement.

There's always room for colloquial units too, of course. I can't see pints and miles ever going anywhere.

We need to stop pandering to people who don't like change

Could not agree more. Imagine not abolishing slavery "because we've always done it that way" ? Or (better still) "No need to give women a vote - why change what's always worked ..." ????

My mum is 72 and considers imperial measurements to be embarrassingly old fashioned.

I'm 41 and have no clue about most of them either. I occasionally dip into the weight loss threads here and lbs and stones don't mean anything to me.

Neither the colour of a country’s passports, metric weights and measurements, the European Convention of Human Rights, The Council of Europe or The European Court of Human Rights have anything to do with the EU.

@StarlightLady

Neither the colour of a country’s passports, metric weights and measurements, the European Convention of Human Rights, The Council of Europe or The European Court of Human Rights have anything to do with the EU.

What does it say about people who believe they do ? Like N. Farage. Esq.