| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 20:40 - Aug 18 with 1018 views | Ewan_Oozami |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 18:31 - Aug 18 by You_Bloo_Right |
Made a rod for his own back there. |
Knocked him off his perch for sure, well out of his league, I couldn't fathom what was going on there... |  |
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| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 21:16 - Aug 18 with 993 views | PrrrromotionGiven |
Par for the course for this govt to turn back the clock with their policies - won't be long until they end up undoing the 1707 Act of Union, after all. |  | | |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 21:22 - Aug 18 with 974 views | Churchman |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 21:16 - Aug 18 by PrrrromotionGiven |
Par for the course for this govt to turn back the clock with their policies - won't be long until they end up undoing the 1707 Act of Union, after all. |
Go back that far and we can reintroduce the doubloon and pieces of eight! |  | | |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 21:31 - Aug 18 with 962 views | jeera |
Just another pathetic distraction which will actually probably appease a few people for reasons unknown.
The country's in the sh1t, literally in some parts, and they focus on this nonsense.
It would be laughable if it wasn't so troubling. |  |
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| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 21:48 - Aug 18 with 951 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 17:47 - Aug 18 by StokieBlue |
Possibly the stupidest in a long list of stupid ideas proposed by the Tories.
It's just completely pointless.
SB |
pointless... decimal pointless? |  |
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| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 22:05 - Aug 18 with 941 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
I just hope there are plenty who complete this with succinct points in the comments that make it clear there is no point wasting money changing anything.
Yes, we still use some like pints, feet and inches, miles, etc. But that is the point, actually labelling them in ml, m, km, etc doesn't stop you selling the traditional sizes. What it does do, is allow visitors from anywhere else in the world to know what they mean and save us the cost of businesses repackaging everything.
As has been noted, can you imagine petrol stations returning to gallons? Would it be around £10 per gallon?! I presume they have their signage ready for double digits. |  |
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| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 23:19 - Aug 18 with 920 views | reusersfreekicks |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 17:47 - Aug 18 by StokieBlue |
Possibly the stupidest in a long list of stupid ideas proposed by the Tories.
It's just completely pointless.
SB |
Sorry uppie intended |  | | |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 10:45 - Aug 19 with 834 views | Coastalblue |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 20:04 - Aug 18 by Guthrum |
Miles for long distances, still think primarily in ft/ins for human height and st/lb for human weight. Plus bar and psi for pressure (particularly tyres). Also ft for height of mountains. Not to forget pints for beer and milk!
Interestingly, a lot of building materials are sold in metric measurements, but imperial sizes. For example, a 2.4 metre by 1.2 metre sheet of plasterboard is near enough 8 feet by 4, 18mm thick timber is about three-quarters of an inch, 38mm screws are approximately an inch and a half long, etc. |
My old man had a timber and builders merchant when I was younger, I worked there when I left school up until I was about 30 and did most of the buying on the timber side of things.
A lot of the timber I bought would be from North America, and so bought in imperial but obviously sold in metric. So I would buy a 16' length of 4x2 and sell a 4.8M length of 50x100. When you're dealing in volume if you're not careful you can very easily watch profits disappear if you don't get your numbers right.
Plywood is of course still generally 8x4, unless it's changed in the last few years, 1220 x 2440 instead of 1200 x 2400.
I would dread suddenly having to teach people to work to 1/8 of an inch again though rather than mm's. I am fortunate, because of my background I can comfortably work in either for most weights and measures but still see zero value in going back to imperial measurements. |  |
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| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 11:11 - Aug 19 with 827 views | ElephantintheRoom |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 17:46 - Aug 18 by Coastalblue |
Who in their right mind would want to use imperial units as their first choice, or any choice come to that?
There's an entire generation, in fact more than one that doesn't understand them anyway. |
The horse racing fraternity still work in imperial units if that also covers distance - and most people still measure distances in miles and mpg
And I’m not sure we ever stopped drinking pints
And record fish are still measured in pounds and ounces. As are veg burgers bacon etc. I’m not sure imperial units ever went away | |
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| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 13:13 - Aug 19 with 790 views | jeera |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 11:11 - Aug 19 by ElephantintheRoom |
The horse racing fraternity still work in imperial units if that also covers distance - and most people still measure distances in miles and mpg
And I’m not sure we ever stopped drinking pints
And record fish are still measured in pounds and ounces. As are veg burgers bacon etc. I’m not sure imperial units ever went away |
No one has suggested they 'went away'.
I don't know why people think they're handing out valuable knowledge by exclaiming many things are still generally measured in Imperial units.
But for this to even be a discussion point at all is pathetic really. No one in their right mind should care and if they do then they're being suckered yet again by petty distractions.
Edited: Typo. [Post edited 19 Aug 2022 21:28]
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| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 15:50 - Aug 19 with 753 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
Another classic nationalist/populist distraction from real issues.
See also Argentina as the masters of this - inflation running at >50pc and expected to hit 90pc later this year - lets distract the populace and talk about some small, sparsely populated islands:
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentine-official-visits-neighbors-bolst
Usually when they bring it up it’s shortly before they go cap in hand to the IMF. Our version is Brexit/EU. | | | |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 19:09 - Aug 19 with 704 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 10:45 - Aug 19 by Coastalblue |
My old man had a timber and builders merchant when I was younger, I worked there when I left school up until I was about 30 and did most of the buying on the timber side of things.
A lot of the timber I bought would be from North America, and so bought in imperial but obviously sold in metric. So I would buy a 16' length of 4x2 and sell a 4.8M length of 50x100. When you're dealing in volume if you're not careful you can very easily watch profits disappear if you don't get your numbers right.
Plywood is of course still generally 8x4, unless it's changed in the last few years, 1220 x 2440 instead of 1200 x 2400.
I would dread suddenly having to teach people to work to 1/8 of an inch again though rather than mm's. I am fortunate, because of my background I can comfortably work in either for most weights and measures but still see zero value in going back to imperial measurements. |
Of course, the internet/modern technology makes converting units an easier process too.
Randall Munroe gave a good summary of the issue of units in his book "What if?" which I recommend.
https://read.amazon.co.uk/kp/embed?linkCode=kpp&asin=B00IYUYF4A&tag=bing | |
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| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 22:51 - Aug 19 with 677 views | Coastalblue |
That looks a good read thx, stuck it on the list. | |
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| Completely ridiculous-red meat for the The Daily Hate readers… when are we going on 23:02 - Aug 19 with 665 views | unstableblue |
… get this ridiculous party out of power, and start governing with some real policies and leadership
It’s embarrassing [Post edited 19 Aug 2022 23:15]
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| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 14:07 - Aug 20 with 576 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Consultation on changing back to imperial units open until 26th on 18:51 - Aug 18 by Geomorph |
Not an ounce of sense in this flag waving Tory tosh. Unfathomable |
I've got to hands it to you for that one. I admire your scruples.
If we reference Matt Gill and Miles Kenlock, is there any chance that we can get this thread moved to "Football"? | | | |
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