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Seeker
18-09-21, 01:03 PM
https://www.businessinsider.com/britain-revert-to-imperial-system-part-of-new-brexit-freedoms-2021-9?r=US&IR=T

:confused:

When I see headlines like this I suspect a distraction (from food and driver shortages perhaps?). I wonder if pounds/shillings/and pence are next, I want my pension paid in guineas. :)

I am aware that, despite the headlines, it's an optional thing. On the other hand, I'm sure a lot of pensioners will be happy (until they see the triple-lock fudge) and they may be the target audience.

Finally, a quote from our Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport:

"Dominic Cummings isn't as clever as he doesn't think he is." Nadine Dorries 27 May 2021

My head hurts. :rolleyes:
DJ123
18-09-21, 01:29 PM
I don't see the point in it. Everything is now set up as it is to work in metric.

I thought Brexit was meant to be about growth & progression - showing the EU was holding us back. Not going back to what Britain was 60+ years ago. Or was that the underlying plan? Blue passports, imperial measurements, food shortages & tax rises?

Seeing as Guy Fawkes night is coming, can someone re-enact his plan . . . .
Seeker
18-09-21, 02:01 PM
Seeing as Guy Fawkes night is coming, can someone re-enact his plan . . . .

you need to go further back. Henry VIII - he wanted to get rid of the Pope's influence (and thus get a divorce whilst simultaneously robbing the monasteries), so broke from the Catholic church.

Boris is a Catholic (as is Rees-Mogg). :)

(this is intended to be funny, not offensive to Catholics)
Craig380
18-09-21, 03:47 PM
LSD for everyone? I'm all for it :)
garynortheast
18-09-21, 04:07 PM
LSD for everyone? I'm all for it :)

Looking at the state of things leads me to believe I may have already, and unknowingly ingested a large quantity of psychedelic drugs. It feels like a bit of a bad trip to me.
johnnyrod
18-09-21, 08:57 PM
Usual smoke screen nonsense to divert attention from whatever else is going on
Bibio
19-09-21, 10:06 AM
Usual smoke screen nonsense to divert attention from whatever else is going on
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IIR there was a sweet shop in Newtonmore, Scotland that won a court case to sell sweets in the old imperial weights.
SV650rules
19-09-21, 03:25 PM
Nobody under 50 will remember lbs and ounces or £ s d anyway... most shop assistants cannot even work out change in decimal currency if the till not working or you offer extra to save getting a pocket full of shrapnel. When we go proper cashless it will be relief for youngsters.