Hurrah! The return of Imperial Units!

[noblegiraffe]

The government has announced a taxpayer-funded study to quantify the economic benefits of a return to imperial units - a definite Brexit benefit.

I'm struggling to think of any. Journeys are all in miles. You can still buy a pint. No one has arrested me for my standard cake recipe of 8,8,8,4. What are the good old imperial units I'm forgetting that are currently verboten and what economic benefit will they bring? Are people desperate to buy a pound of apples but holding off while they're in kg?

"Paul Scully, a Tory business minister, said reintroducing imperial labelling would be “an important step in taking back control” and that a planned “assessment of the economic impact on business will be carried out in due course”."

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-imperial-measurements-economic-benefit-study-b2021304.html

Is this our future?

www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Greek-Plain-Nonfat-Yogurt-5-3-oz/166046751

It's $0.64 for a 5.3 ounce (150 g ) so it's 12.1 cents per ounce

However, the nutritional values are in grams and per gram.

@noblegiraffe

Rees-Mogg did write an article in the Sun, asking for readers to send him their ideas for Brexit benefits.

Maybe this was what they came up with? You wouldn't have thought it would be a major priority what with all the other benefits waiting to be cashed in.

Scraping the bottom of the barrel there JRM 🐷

Huzzah! Here we are! Happening for the Jubilee!

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-bids-jubilee-boost-27090524

I guess the taxpayer-funded study mentioned in the OP found loads of economic benefits. I'm so excited to find out what they will be.

What a load of rubbish- a pointless waste of money.

I hope the study considered the detriment to our science and technology of not using SI units in daily life.

FWIW - I run and cycle in km, weigh myself in kg, cook in grams and know my height in both (because it's been consistent for so long). But

What a fucking waste of tax payers money.

Never mind the NHS on its knees.
Labour shortage.
Food banks.
Etc etc.

After decades overseas and fully metric systems, I was in the UK recently and was using GPS. I ended up v stressed down country roads shouting "What the fuck is a quarter of a mile!"

What a load of shit. Honestly.

it’s not that they’ve run out of ideas. They never had any.

Ah yes, the greased piglet going for cheap wins with the Brexit bores.

Focusing on the big issues of the day.

Oinkety oink.

I'm 50 and I'm pretty much bilingual. I remember when I was 10 or so, wedid some lessons in maths on imperial measurements because we would still come across them from time to time,but mostly we worked in metric.

I know my height and weight equally in both. I walk kilometres, but drive miles, though I'll often convert to km if talking to my European colleagues. I do struggle with acres, but then I also struggle with hectares.

I can cook in either, but quite often do it by eye anyway. What is a bad thing to do is convert from grammes to ounces half way through because you're not thinking...

I did my maths O Level in 1971 so we were the first year to do it in metric. I was so glad as the calculations were so much easier. Imagine trying to work out compound interest in £sd (pounds, shillings and pence) without a calculator either! The idea of going backwards is ridiculous - no nostalgia here.

I'm definitely a grey voter but manage perfectly well with metric and imperial with no problem. Its hardly rocket science. Maybe we should go back to pre decimal coins as well!

Enough with the ageist comments already. I am old and so are many of my friends and we can cope with metric units very well thanks. This is to appeal to the little Englanders who voted for Brexit. Or it's a figment in Jacob Rees Mogg's imagination. As if businesses don't have enough to contend with. The cost of retooling machinery, problems for the building industry and so on. What a monumental waste of money.

Is it April 1st??

I think of my DCs' height and weight in cm/kg due to Scandi clothes and school using cm and the GP using kg.
Babies are still in lb and oz, I know my own height in both for skiing and my weight sounds less scary in stone.
I do cook in metric and buy yarn in grams (ditto cosmetics and food) and fabric in m (but what's 3" between friends).

I think we already use a good mix of metric and Imperial measures. What a waste of tax-payer cash.

Have they announced that they're switching to pounds shillings and pence to tackle inflation yet?

I’m 53 and was taught in metric units. They can only be aiming this at people slightly older than me because they (a) remember using imperial values, and (b) will be less hit by the cost of living rise since (on average) they will have had the biggest gains from house prices while having lower expenditure (mortgages paid off, children left home), but (c) they aren’t yet old enough to be hit by increases in prices for personal care. That’s a small demographic to waste so much money on.

They would have to be quite a lot older than you. I am 67 and did my Maths O level in metric.

Decimal day (1971) was my 18th birthday. I didn't want to go metric but we have albeit rather half heartedly. It's done now so just leave it. Too expensive to change back. Most of the older coins are too low value now to be of any use.

I was flicking round the news channels this morning, happened to see Anne Diamond on GB news talking about how clever everyone used to be because we all learned the 12 and 14 times tables. She went on to explain we needed them as there were 12 pennies in a shilling and 14 oz in a pound.

Brilliant if it wasn't for there being 16 oz in a pound.

Mind you I have to say the only other times I've looked at GB news it has been someone ranting about vaccinations so I suppose it was refreshing. I won't put it on my regular rota of news as I normally watch Sky, I had to turn it off this morning as they were about to wheel out some government minister and I couldn't bear to listen.

About fucking time I say! It's because of all them European types that I can't bake.

Rule Britannia, Jubilee pudding and proper measurements. PM Johnson is certainly delivering on Brexit.🥳🥳🥳🙄

Now where's me bunting?

😂😂😂. Only came across this in the UK.
So most useful to UK only, at a glance sort of speak.

I had an 80s/90s childhood with staunchly imperial parents, the type that were in uproar when it became law that for most produce, metric had to be used. I was educated in metric and imperial was the "mother tongue"

I will generally use metric.
My running is strangely hybrid between km/ mi depending on distance.
Imperial suits humans. I agree with another pp that imperial tends to be quite visual but a bugger to calculate. I would struggle to calculate imperial in any technical way, and most people under 60 just haven't been taught how to. There are few people of working age that have.

In a global, computerised world, metric is here to stay. It's too far gone to reinstate imperial in more than a token way, and imperial is not standard between countries anyway.

Neither did I, and I left school 30 years ago.