Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

[bobh]

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But you do think we should bring back the barleycorn?

Though the name isn't used, we still use the barleycorn.
It's what UK shoe sizes are measured in

[jon1959]

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Just 11 for me although it should have been twelve but, half asleep, I pressed the wrong button. Like you, got all of my guesses wrong, but, thinking about it now, I should have known roughly how long a cubit was.

For some reason cubit has always stuck in my head - based on the measurement from elbow to finger tip. Roman I think?

[JamesWales]

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Being from a building trade background I used to always work in imperial, 8 X 4 ft sheets, 4 X 2" timber, 1 3/4" screws

its funny

we drink pints, I weigh 17 stone, Im 6ft 3" yet when I was in school we were told Imperial was dead and metric was the way forward and we would ditch Imperial, it never did go away

Exactly, it never went away, it's a small part of the culture and identity of the country and there is no issue treating the two equally if different people want to use it.

Obviously removing metric standards would be totally wrong as would not teaching it, but culturally the two can exist and it's fine to treat them equally in the law - mental that the EU ever pushed otherwise really.

[bobh]

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics...PjbXTfGZviVaMQ

13 out of 18.

Got all my guesses wrong!

18/18!

I knew most, had 2 lucky guesses.

[Des Parrot]

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16/18 don’t know my sausages & flummoxed by a peck!

[Lither_1927]

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Disagree all you want. I've written lots about it, both academically and elsewhere.

Welsh choirs aren't controlled and dictated to by any globalist organisations. Utterly ridiculous comment.

I've listened to enough traditional music to know what i like. You may have written an opinion piece but it's not scientific fact. It's your opinion.

The concept *is* utterly ridiculous, that was the point. just like the distant Globalsts in Brussels diluting national culture with dictat. Ridiculous

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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I've listened to enough traditional music to know what i like. You may have written an opinion piece but it's not scientific fact. It's your opinion.

The concept *is* utterly ridiculous, that was the point. just like the distant Globalsts in Brussels diluting national culture with dictat. Ridiculous

It is a fact that traditional male voice choirs are in decline and are dying. That's not an opinion.

[NYCBlue]

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I live in the US, so imperial measures never went away. We also use Fahrenheit. I've sometimes wondered, do people talk about the size dicks in centimeters?

[life on mars]

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Not sure what it achieves other than gesture politics . Got a feeling only 3 countries use it one being the , USA perhaps it please our freinds accross the pond?

I cant weight for the backlash.

[ToTaL ITK]

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I live in the US, so imperial measures never went away. We also use Fahrenheit. I've sometimes wondered, do people talk about the size dicks in centimeters?

i think you've been wondering that a lot

[Lither_1927]

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It is a fact that traditional male voice choirs are in decline and are dying. That's not an opinion.

I didn't dispute that, is it because they're "shit" though? Or is it that society has been conditioned to ditch tradition and community in favour of atomisation and "consuming" the next superficial novelty act. In my view Traditional choirs aren't "shit" niether in sound or what they represent in terms of community. What's sold as "Progress" isn't necessarily good or beneficial for humanity. I think the West has been in decline for decades, despite progressing from the betamax. People are suffering record levels of mental illness, suicide increasing rapidly with white male suicide increasing fastest.

[Sparticus_Mills]

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Not sure if anyone has posted this?18300.jpg

[xsnaggle]

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Timber is still 2x2, 3x2 and sheets of ply are 8x4

Ye but the said timber comes in 2 lengths, 4.8 and 6 metres

[xsnaggle]

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Without looking...
In feet and inches..
A fathom....
A chain....

A chin is 22 yds, the length of a cricket pitch stumps to stumps, and is 1/10 of a furlong (Horse racing).

A fathom is 6 ft (I think)

[jon1959]

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How much is a finger of fudge?