The EU has given up its plan to force Britain to go metric. Britons can carry on using imperial measurements such as pints, pounds and miles. Is this a victory for British tradition or is it time the country conformed with Europe? With imperial measurements abandoned in school lessons decades ago is a metric Britain inevitable? Have your say.
Think of all the other things we'd have to change.
Give'em a centimetre and they'll take a metre?
Centimetre worm?
Half kilo cake?
A half kilo of flesh?
Within a centimetre of his life?
The half kilo sterling?
Don't quite have the same ring, does it?
You should try working in the tiber trade. I worked in timber yards for 15 years, you measure softwoods in metric and hardwoods in imperial and sheets materials are sized in imperial with metric thickness, hows that for confusing
EU shows an ounce of sense
Thats about all the sense the EU ever had, one ounce, does that mean that it is now as widely suspected, completely devoid of all sense. God help us.
Wayne,
Just want to point out to you, you can buy scales in the shops that weigh in both imperial and metric. Including electric or digital, these have a button on the bottom to change them
its ok for the eu to say we dont have to use metric but all the scales that are used in shops are in metric so u cant go back to pounds and onces cause they were thrown away anyway metric is so much easier
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