Do think BJ is desperate if bringing back imperial is his next plan...

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Johnson to reportedly bring back imperial measures to mark platinum jubilee

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I still use imperial! 🤣

It's a bit like when he announced that we were now able to have the crown mark on all our pint glasses (Brexit Bonus™).

But on closer inspection everyone realised it had never gone away.

Same with imperial. It's never gone away and everyone happily uses a mash-up of both.

Wait until he brings back Latin as our official language 😎

Who's using double decker buses as a unit of measurement?!!
Evel Knievel?

Here she is! We've found her! We've found Bozo's fan!

This was announced months if not years ago. There's been threads on this. They're not getting rid of kilos and litres but if people want to sell in pounds, they can do. They can already sell in pounds if they want but the size of the writing can't be bigger than that if the metric weight. So people could do this already. And they're only go back to pounds if they think there's a demand for it. I don't see the big fuss. We haven't keeled over with the shock of juggling pints and litres. Or miles and kms. Some people weigh themselves in kilos, some in pounds, and I don't think it's destroyed the economy.
It isn’t a huge deal, but it is weakening a sensible consumer protection law for the sake of some (particularly trivial) identity politics.

Thanks to Tory policies there’s probably a generation or two that can barely multiply and divide in tens let alone twelves.

Most people on the height and weight threads use feet and stones so it's used on MN anyway

Not sure that what MN uses will be instrumental in determining govt policy but you never know.

Maybe Tories all have six fingers. That would help.

According to this article, all it means is that shops can sell things measured bu imperial. Which I think is fine and even a good thing given that with some items, people tend to talk about them using the old system anyway. People can still use metric if they want.

Thanks!

Reading this thread you would think MN users use only metric measurements, they don't

Not sure but I’m 51 too - DH, however, is 70 and his response to this was:
‘Fuck me’ . I don’t think it was an expression of enthusiasm.

It isn’t a huge deal, but it is weakening a sensible consumer protection.

What's it weakening? How are you going to be worse off? You don't have to buy anything in imperial measures if you don't want to?

The cost of rewriting, reprinting and redesigning the advice, measurements, equipment etc to comply by business would be shocking.
Did this bother you when we had to go from imperial to metric?

Reading this thread I think that MN users use a hybrid of both. Just like everyone in the country.

You're on the wrong thread. You're far too rational!

Do DC learn their 12 times tables now or do they stop at 10.

This is already the case. Shops can sell things measured in imperial units now, but are also required to display the price per kg, so that consumers can easily understand and compare prices.

This change would mean that stores are no longer obliged to show prices per kg, making life a bit harder for consumers who are watching their spending.

Of course not. Because that's a progressive and sensible change instead of a dead cat load of retrograde nonsense.

But they’re factually wrong.

I think in imperial, because that was what I was brought up with, but I can convert from one to the other in my head. It's no wonder my generation are good at tables when we had to do sums like 5miles 3furlongs 2chains 6yds 3ft 8in/13

FIL will be delighted

Here she is! We've found her! We've found Bozo's fan!

And I found the person who's not intelligent enough to address the issue so decides to be personal.

Hilarious to think that moving away from a metric system used by literally the entire world (apart from the bonkers US) makes you 'rational'.