A thank you to Brexiteers.

[Calamity1971]

But this does mean we can now go out and have a pint if wine ( to ourselves ).

Or have 750ml to ourselves is better?

 

[Dogsauce]

planned shrinkflation on the back of National pride

There’s a metaphor for the whole bloody shitshow in there somewhere…

 

[Maggot]

 

[Karl Masks]

The very essence of Brexit. The rest of the world, particularly Johnny EU, will bend to our will. Because empire. We are a laughing stock

 

[two sheds]

This is disgusting GB has been erased from the map - and the map says "Europe, country or region?" (what Europeans feel most attached to). Not even EU. See what the Express readers' Brexit vote has done we've been deleted. We just don't exist

 

[gosub]

This is disgusting GB has been erased from the map - and the map says "Europe, country or region?" (what Europeans feel most attached to). Not even EU. See what the Express readers' Brexit vote has done we've been deleted. We just don't exist

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Haven't even bothered putting 'Here be dragons' it's a deliberate snub of the Welsh

 

[Dogsauce]

It actually says we’re most attached to ‘no data’, which is probably correct as most decisions seem to be made without reference to facts or evidence.

 

[Ax^]

you can just imagine bojo siting with Carrie and the little doggo

a light appear above his head "I know how to appeal to the working class plebs "

"pints of wine"

not yet even a fucking circus

 

[gosub]

you can just imagine bojo siting with Carrie and the little doggo

a light appear above his head "I know how to appeal to the working class plebs "

"pints of wine"

not yet even a fucking circus

Nope think we've been thru this...it was Guardian reporter, presumably with wine infront of them...turning a meh press release into rabid froth.


When the shoe was on the other foot market traders were literally going to prison ..that weight and measures can be more relaxed over units without legislation is all that's happened...if its a move from anything its a move back from permitted and prescribed to its illegal so dont

 

[Pickman's model]

ordinary people don't give a fuck about wine in pint bottles ...

why would you want less wine

Make it quart bottles and you'd be on

 

[Ax^]

Nope think we've been thru this...it was Guardian reporter, presumably with wine infront of them...turning a meh press release into rabid froth.


When the shoe was on the other foot market traders were literally going to prison ..that weight and measures can be more relaxed over units without legislation is all that's happened...if its a move from anything its a move back from permitted and prescribed to its illegal so dont

you know their 2 threads covering this and if you expect me.to dive into a 50 page thread to keep track you can feck off

 

[andysays]

Nope think we've been thru this...it was Guardian reporter, presumably with wine infront of them...turning a meh press release into rabid froth.


When the shoe was on the other foot market traders were literally going to prison ..that weight and measures can be more relaxed over units without legislation is all that's happened...if its a move from anything its a move back from permitted and prescribed to its illegal so dont

when the legend becomes fact, post the legend...

 

[Ax^]

from the BBC the Tory thought imperial unit were what the working class wanted but

But the government has now said it will not change the rules, after 98.7% of respondents to a consultation favoured using metric as the main measurement unit for sales, as now, or as the only unit.

also canned pints of wine lovely

 

[isvicthere?]

Let me guess. American pints are slightly bigger.

No, a pint is 20fl oz; an American one is 16fl oz.

 

[Chz]

No, a pint is 20fl oz; an American one is 16fl oz.

Yes, but an American pint is more than 4/5ths an imperial pint as their fl.oz is larger. An imperial pint is actually around 19 US fl.ozs.

 

[The39thStep]

Yes, but an American pint is more than 4/5ths an imperial pint as their fl.oz is larger. An imperial pint is actually around 19 US fl.ozs.

This is why the Americans left the British Empire

 

[two sheds]

jolly good thing too

 

[editor]

No, a pint is 20fl oz; an American one is 16fl oz.

It's so simple to understand!

The British imperial pint is about 20% larger than the American pint because the two systems are defined differently. Almost all other countries have standardized on the metric system, so although some of them still also have traditional units called pints (such as for beverages), the volume varies by regional custom.

The imperial pint (≈ 568 mL) is used in the United Kingdom and Ireland and to a limited extent in Commonwealth nations. In the United States, two kinds of pint are used: a liquid pint (≈ 473 mL) and a less common dry pint (≈ 551 mL). Other former British colonies, such as Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, converted to the metric system in the 1960s and 1970s; so while the term pint may still be in common use in these countries, it may no longer refer to the British imperial pint once used throughout the British Empire.

 

[The39thStep]

jolly good thing too

 

[brogdale]

Hollinrake is such a thick, rentier twat; "..moments just like this.."

 

[gosub]

It's so simple to understand!

Not if you a former Minister of Brexit Opportunity.

. Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former business secretary, said: “It is hard to see why this harmless little measure is not being implemented especially as our largest trading partner, the United States, still uses imperial units.
“It is typical of the rather bureaucratic and dull approach this government likes to take”.

https://archive.is/2wUth

 

[The39thStep]

Apparently, there are no restrictions on the size of beer bottles or cans .

Edited from prescriptions

 

[Ax^]

Not if you a former Minister of Brexit Opportunity.

. Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former business secretary, said: “It is hard to see why this harmless little measure is not being implemented especially as our largest trading partner, the United States, still uses imperial units.
“It is typical of the rather bureaucratic and dull approach this government likes to take”.

https://archive.is/2wUth

did his hedge fund not just go tits up

he is a voice to be listened to

 

[Ax^]

Apparently, there are no prescriptions on the size of beer bottles or cans

*shakes fist at the NHS

 

[brogdale]

Guardian reporting a fairly large sample size Brexit-based Opinium poll conducted to mark the third anniversary of the UK fully leaving the EU single market and customs unions.

Headline figure of 22% of voters believe it has been good for the UK in general, but this zinger took my eye:


Now that is a problem for rat-boy.

 

[T & P]

Guardian reporting a fairly large sample size Brexit-based Opinium poll conducted to mark the third anniversary of the UK fully leaving the EU single market and customs unions.

Headline figure of 22% of voters believe it has been good for the UK in general, but this zinger took my eye:

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Now that is a problem for rat-boy.

 

[contadino]

Guardian reporting a fairly large sample size Brexit-based Opinium poll conducted to mark the third anniversary of the UK fully leaving the EU single market and customs unions.

Headline figure of 22% of voters believe it has been good for the UK in general, but this zinger took my eye:

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Now that is a problem for rat-boy.

That's an interesting take on the article and some judicious use of numbers.

 

[brogdale]

That's an interesting take on the article and some judicious use of numbers.

OK, fire away.

 

[isvicthere?]

Nope think we've been thru this...it was Guardian reporter, presumably with wine infront of them...turning a meh press release into rabid froth.


When the shoe was on the other foot market traders were literally going to prison ..that weight and measures can be more relaxed over units without legislation is all that's happened...if its a move from anything its a move back from permitted and prescribed to its illegal so dont

"Market traders were literally going to prison"? Really? I thought traders were free to trade it metric and "imperial" if they wanted to. I remember reading a Sun headline about "metric martyrs", but assumed it was typical Sun bullshit. Will do a google...

ETA: google done. The main reference to a "metric martyr" I can find is a guy called Steve Thoburn from Sunderland, who was handed a conditional discharge (so didn´t go to gaol) in 2001. Later he died, in 2004, from a heart attack, aged 39. There are some others, who also got a conditional discharge.

If you can hold your nose to open it, even the DM admits trying to revive the moribund cause of "imperial" measures is pointless.

Government abandons plan to expand the use of imperial measures

A plan to expand the use of imperial measures has been abandoned. The decision means that most goods will be sold by law using the metric system, apart from exceptions like pints of beer and milk.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Artaxerxes]

Not if you a former Minister of Brexit Opportunity.

. Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former business secretary, said: “It is hard to see why this harmless little measure is not being implemented especially as our largest trading partner, the United States, still uses imperial units.
“It is typical of the rather bureaucratic and dull approach this government likes to take”.

https://archive.is/2wUth

They are also using different Imperial units.