Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

[Lither_1927]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

Wind up merchant. I'm not taking the bait.

Not on the wind up at all, but if that's what you need to say as an "out" that's fine.
weights and measurements are a part of a nations culture and identity. Albeit a small part. It should go without saying.

[jimmyscoular]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

I greatly enjoy explaining to my befuddled American children how there used to be 240 pennies to a pound instead of 100, that 12 pennies equalled a shilling and 20 shillings equalled a pound, and how effortlessly we made those calculations. Those old movies with shops signs stating such mysteries as 2/6 and 1/10 are softly nostalgic. Yes, the decimal system — demanded long ago, you might know, by Plantagenet Palliser — is more efficient and globally uniform, but the flip side of uniformity is conformity.

When I visit a foreign country I hope to encounter foreignness.

On the other hand, convenience is valuable. So count me on the fence.

Surely, though, any movement back to the imperial system would be slow, advancing by the inch rather than the mile.

[lardy]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

Do we really want our kids and grandkids to be confused and potentially ripped off when they travel abroad?

I think of height in feet and inches, and weight in stones (get a bit confused with pounds though - a newborn's weight in kilogrammes makes more sense to me). But it wouldn't bother me if future generations dropped them. I'm quite sure I could adapt.

[IanD]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

Whilst we're at it, why not bring back black and white TV, C30 cassettes and the Home Service on the wireless? And 45rpm records? Esq. should be added to the name of the gentleman to whom a letter is addressed and women denied the vote unless they are over 30 and homeowners. All children should be taught Latin until 16 and rotten boroughs reintroduced to ensure the likes of Jacob Rees-Moggs offspring have at least one parliamentary seat each. Feet n inches, pounds and ozs. Thin end of the wedge.

[Lither_1927]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

Do we really want our kids and grandkids to be confused and potentially ripped off when they travel abroad?

Haha What an argument

[jon1959]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

8 Track and Betamax!

Vital part of our culture.

God Save The Queen!

[The Bloop]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

Whilst we're at it can we ditch July and August and have 10 months in a year?

[Des Parrot]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

On a list of priorities this wouldn’t make anyones list, regardless of political views or Brexit stance.

A waste of everyone’s time and a deflection of real issues.

[Rjk]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

Whilst we're at it can we ditch July and August and have 10 months in a year?

No, I'm more in favour of having an extra month and making it 13 months in the year, then they each have 4 weeks.
The additional month should slot in between August and September

[lardy]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

It's about preserving national culture and identity, these things bring a deeper meaning to life.

Haha What an argument

[lardy]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

No, I'm more in favour of having an extra month and making it 13 months in the year, then they each have 4 weeks.
The additional month should slot in between August and September

Shill for the Gregorians are you?

[Tuerto]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

It's Soft Jingoism.

[Rjk]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

Shill for the Gregorians are you?

tell that to Moses b cotsworth

[UNDERHILL1927]

Re: Imperial measures making a comeback - for or against?

Who cares?