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 thought this HAD to be a joke, now I think it's a huge red herring (whyever would we need one of those? )

I grew up in Australia and when I was around 10 they transitioned from Imperial to metric. 'In come the dollars and in come the cents, out go the pounds, and the shillings and the pence' or something like that, to the melody of Waltzing Matilda! I was very young and so picked it up quickly. I'd found the chains, perches, rods and so on to be very difficult in arithmetic, to say the least. However there weren't years of showing the two systems side by side, the metric system was pretty quickly the only thing being shown from temperatures to weights and measures. We were selling our house at auction and the whole thing was done in dollars and my mother kept asking me 'what's that in pounds?? in a stressed tones! But I digress.

At 23 we emigrated to the UK and it was back to the Imperial system - sort of, as it appeared the UK was in some kind of transition. It has seemed that way ever since (and that was over 40 years ago!) I am still very surprised when it's asked on MN 'what height/weight are you' that people respond in Imperial measures. Why? Weren't the majority of you brought up with metric measures?

On the one hand I think the metric system is simpler, but on the other I find it very tedious when it comes to, say, buying furniture and all the measurements are in mm! I cannot picture that in my head, even if switching mentally to cm or meters - only feet make sense!

I do think any attempt to change back now is just ludicrous - will we change back again when the Tories get booted?

For those who might enjoy this, the Aussie commercial that informed us of the change in our currency. Maybe Boris should watch it!

It has to a large extent, speed being one of the few exceptions.
Building materials, temp, weights, area, education, medical... all metric... plus the vast majority of people have never used imperial and don't have 16 digits on their hands.
The metric system also allows easily understood weights and volumes below 25 grams/ml, i don't know what is less than an Ounce (approx 25 grams) or what is used in the fl oz scale.

Metric makes more sense, divisible by 10, 0'C if freezing.... 100'C boiling... or do you think that freezing is best represented by 32'F or boiling by 212'F ?

But of course, this is just another red rag to throw us to distract from a failing Govt and his personal problems.

I use imperial whilst cooking. My recipes are written in lbs and oz.

i dont use gallons and litres when buying fuel, i use £40 and pay that for whatever measure i get.

when baby is born people say the weight in lbs and ounces.

Never a truer word spoken!!

At the moment I'm trying to finish two work contracts, I'm sorting out packing and organising work for our working holiday from next weekend, cleaning the house for the pet sitter while I'm away and sorting out the carers for my mum while I'm gone and all her washing, cleaning and biying and preparing her food for the carers to use.

You see. I'm capable of doing all that at the same time. So surely the entire flipping civil service can figure out to do more than one thing at once. 🙄

But why waste time and money on something completely inconsequential when there are so many other important things going on?

Only dickheads use Fahrenheit. Celsius is sublime in its simplicity and relatability.

all of this is just Tory virtue signalling of course. Nothing will actually change.

You use what you have been brought up with. I'm in my 50s so if I am asked my weight it's in stones, height is feet and inches. I still convert celcius to Fahrenheit. Distance is in miles. Room measurements in feet and inches.

Most people use a combination of metric and imperial. Nothing will really change. People will still use what they're comfortable with.

gallons instead of litres will be illuminating.

I'm going to predict that the number of garages choosing to display the price per gallon rather than per litre is zero.

Even though cars in the U.K. typically show their fuel economy in mpg (maybe there's a setting for miles per litre and/or km per litre).

And he hasn't worked out that they're a much smaller proportion of the electorate than they were before the pandemic.

Fgs. They have just ordered this so-called 'review' so that it will be a headline in the Sunday papers and distract from partygate. They know it's stupid, controversial and will get people talking about something that will never feasibly happen.

They know that the news headlines have a certain capacity and when they need to distract, they fill it with any old nonsense.

Bloody hope money doesn't change. We're in a cost of living crisis, the government have spent tons. Wonder how much it will cost to produce new/old currency.

Highly unlikely. Think of all the accounting and banking software which would need to be changed.

This is the worst government we have ever seen. Utter joke.

This sounds like a wind up. What is the actual point of this and how is it being justified other than to cling onto backward thinking right wing voters for dear life? What a waste of money. This party is fucking weird.

They wouldn't have even thought about complicated but glaringly obvious things like that, trust me.

I think this is just a diversion tactic from BJ supporting newspapers.

Is using imperial right wing.

In which case you probably aren’t a Johnson supporter after all

Wait until a few more MPs hand in letters of no confidence. They'll suddenly be bringing back shillings and sixpences and "half a crown" whatever that it.

Multi -millionaire RS will be giving people an extra tuppence ha'penny off their gas bill and announcing, "We'll get through this...."

"half a crown" whatever that it

2/6d or 12.5p in decimal money

I don't think that my local greengrocer ever stopped using imperial measures

This is a dead cat - designed to stir up debate and distract us from him changing the ministerial code and breaking the law during lockdown. What did we do to deserve such an unethical, expedient, lying, gaslighting, horror of a prime minister?

It'll never happen, it's just a distraction that will be never heard of again in a week. As previous posters have said there are strong consumer protection regulations in this area and it would make no sense to roll back on them. Shops can supplement that information with imperial measurements if they want.

But he's got his headlines and I'm sure there's no intention of following through. He doesn't actually care about substance, he's just an after dinner speaker.

Don't be ridiculous, it'll just mean that businesses can choose to advertise their prices in imperial if they wish. No one is going to be forcing you to change.

And for those of you interest in the Dead Cat Strategy, here’s the link, from our own glorious leader’s own pen 🙄Every time Boris Johnson opens his mouth I look for the dead cat, because I do not trust that man as far as I could throw him.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

How many barefaced-lying deadbeat dad PMs will we get to the Pound in future? The man is a moron. This idea is laughable. Shows how clueless he is.

Bread and circuses, OP, bread and circuses.
However, media, his own whinging MPs and opposition should leave him to carry on with the job, he is doing well in many areas, particularly supporting Ukraine.