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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It’s fucking embarrassing to think
a uk govt in 2022 could come up with this shit and think it’s a good idea.

Good! I don’t want any of that European measurement nonsense in my life. Bring back the good old days of sovereignty and make Britain great again, that’s what I say. I’m planning a wonderful day of cucumber sandwiches, cupcakes, proper tea in bone china cups and saucers and lots of Union Jack bunting for our Jubilee celebrations. I’ll also be having a Union Jack tattoo on my bottom and it will be measured in inches, not mm. Let’s all save our wonderful ‘Big Dog’ and make Britain great again!!! 🇬🇧

Good for you, but be prepared to pay loads more when you have to buy special British versions of all building materials, or accept shortages of items.

Do you really think a window manufacturer is going to build new machinery just because some people who want to live in the past want to buy a six-foot window instead of a 2-metre window?

Or do you just want them to rename to 2 metre window on British packaging (6'6.74"!) and websites, for appearances sake, which would really just be weird, like we were all playing a game of 'let's pretend we live in 1950'? I guess we could all wear vintage costumes too, and drink mild.

Aren't windows made to fit the gap they are going to go in, ours will be imperial as the house was built in 1930s surely

This sounds like something told to the Sunday papers so they can have less coverage on 'party gate'. Not one of the 38 bills in the Queens Speech.

Main thing seems to be a crown on a glass, I haven't been in a pub for years so wouldn't know or care if there was a crown or not

No matter how skint I've been, I can't say that I've ever gone from store to store comparing the price of beans.

I'm in my early 30s and I use imperial quite often. It's news to me that it had vanished! Like when I weigh myself (it's easier to lose a lb than a kilo!!) or if I'm buying meat at the butchers. The butchers have never blinked twice at it. I have a lot of old recipe books which are in imperial so for cooking I'm more used to it, but I can use grams just as easily.

I don't know how temperature translates, I'd like to keep centigrade please!

I think Johnson's idea is a load of shite which panders to the same uninformed "take back control" mentality which he needs to survive in office.

It was mentioned on the paper review on broadcasting house just now. Some rag is leading with 'Bozo brings back the pint for the jubilee!'

Unless you're terminally stupid/Tory you'll have noticed that the pint never went away.

Tories love inventing problems then 'fixing' them to the delight of their thick-as-shit fanbase whilst completely ignoring genuine problems.

I don't know how temperature translates, I'd like to keep centigrade please!

Badly!
We lived in the US for a while when DH was seconded by the chemical company he worked for. Obviously if you're a scientist everything to do with chemistry uses metric units, and certainly Celsius(or kelvin) is used for properties such as melting point. (A lot of the maths works in kelvin, the degree is the same as Celsius/centigrade but it starts from absolute zero. ). So, discussing the operating conditions on a plant he came across some temperatures which made no bloody sense at all... it took him a while to realise the engineer was talking in degrees Fahrenheit. Bonkers.

The Daily Fail has surpassed even itself with this front page about crown stamps supposedly returning to pint glasses. Yes, cos it was the EU wot took them off us. Even the news traders were laughing and calling this blatant dead cat journalism. Apparently, the Fail are reporting "a government source" has leaked this life-changing beer glass news and even the BBC news guy was saying the "source" quoted sounds distinctly like BJ himself.

news readers, though I'm sure traders are laughing as well.

I agree. I was born in the 70s and am perfectly comfortable with both. DH spent a lot of time in the US growing up so is the same.

Yes slinkymakinki03 - but it's the Jubilee you see, so we clearly need a "review" of measurements.

What the hell is this supposed to achieve?

I wonder if he's actually asked the Queen if she's happy that her jubilee is being used for this bollocks?

American/British here. Under 40 (just).

I know imperial like the back of my hand. You say 70 degrees and I can feel it. I still prefer taking body temp in Fahrenheit.

I do not want to go backwards though. I came here in my 20s and had to learn metric. Felt like such an idiot. Still sometimes do a conversion in Google to be sure. But it does make more sense and it is used worldwide.

My DS has British and American and European citizenships, and I want him a citizen of the world, not use systems that isolate.

I'm sure he has absolutely no intention of actually doing this. It's the usual kite-flying bullshit to take the attention away from the big story. It will be quietly dropped when it's done its job. He's a fucking lazy, lying, self serving, incompetent disgrace

Excellent article by Andrew Rawnsley in the Observer. Utterly spot on.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/29/boris-johnson-has-vomited-over-standards-in-public-life

What? I ordered a pint last week.

As previous posters have noted, this is merely a dead cat to distract attention from the Prime Minister's more pressing problems - of which he has many. It will no doubt result in headlines in the Daily Express, the Daily Mail and/or the Sun along the lines of "At Last - An Ounce of Common Sense!", but little more than that.

However... just in case anyone does fall for the "ounce of common sense" angle, I suggest they attempt the attached exercises from "Intelligence Arithmetic Tests" published by Schofield & Sims most likely during the 1950s, which was - as stated on the front page - intended for children aged between 10 and 12 years. The pages attached are the first and the second of 48 such exercises.

Good luck.

My, my, what utter lunacy is this. I joined the Inland Revenue prior to decimalisation (I am very old) It was difficult, we had to use specialised "adding" machines, then when we started to go metric we could do twice as much work in half the time!
So, as I said, I am old I can't go back to pounds and ounces, pints and gallons, it will hurt my brain.
All those who voted for Brexit can if they want!

orwellwasright i absolutely use all those things . Mamy people do. Even wen sites allow you to use feet amd inches which implies that this is a current mode for many.

Nothing needs fixing. There is no problem with our current standards. It's just a manufactured problem, a culture war to detract from genuine issues and to give Bozo's flag-shagging fanboyz some wank material.

I'm so exhausted by it all. I wish he'd just fuck off, taking his cabal of sycophantic halfwits with him.

The real dickheads are the idiots who use fahrenheit to talk about hot weather (Phew, what a scorcher. It’s 82 degrees!) and Celsius to talk about cold weather (It’s bloody freezing! -2 degrees!) not understanding that they are using two completely different temperature scales…