Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
We've never stopped using any of those btw.
A thank you to Brexiteers.
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gosub
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Metric martyr dies
A greengrocer whose stubborn refusal to abandon imperial weights and measures led to him being dubbed a Metric Martyr has died from a suspected heart attack at the age of 39.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Think the Guardian's wording there is incorrect. Traders have never been banned from using imperial measures. He was prosecuted for refusing to also display metric measures.Metric martyr dies
A greengrocer whose stubborn refusal to abandon imperial weights and measures led to him being dubbed a Metric Martyr has died from a suspected heart attack at the age of 39.www.google.com
TBF, though, he is definitely not able to sell anything in ounces now.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Some of us on here are long enough in the tooth to be able to remember way back when you could order a pint in a boozer...until those cheese-surrendering, crypto-Marxist fascists from Brussels made us......blah, blah...Finally we can use the Furlong again!
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i see your article misses off janet devers
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Not sure what that link is meant to demonstrate, but here is what was said in the Metric Martyrs court judgment:
...while the use of imperial measures as primary indicators for the sale of goods loose in bulk had ceased to be lawful on 1st January 2000, their use as supplementary indicators was now permitted until 1st January 2010; and that remains the position.
Link
(In the event, the Government u-turned, and imperial measurements just continued to be permitted.)
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Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
At least we can have straight bananas now.
Or was it curved?
Thank you Brexit.
#Britishbananas
Or was it curved?
Thank you Brexit.
#Britishbananas
Lucy Fur
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gosub
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No cos its a WTO thing.
This whole code ld have been a chance to o bring some clarity and transparency to the m myriad of regulation we live under.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Mutual ignore means mutual ignore
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Smash imperialismi see your article misses off janet devers
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I got a warning for that ?????????????
"Mutual ignore means mutual ignore" apparently.
I quoted someone who I'm NOT on "mutual ignore" with, with no direct reference to anyone I am!
Yet someone who I AM on "mutual ignore" with has failed to ignore my post and warned me for it.
WTF's going on?
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Not surprised you've been subjected to a mayismI got a warning for that ?????????????
"Mutual ignore means mutual ignore" apparently.
I quoted someone who I'm NOT on "mutual ignore" with, with no direct reference to anyone I am!
Yet someone who I AM on "mutual ignore" with has failed to ignore my post and warned me for it.
WTF's going on?
In addition mutual ignore is a one-way street I see
Boris Johnson hailed his post Brexit trade deal with Australia as a new dawn for both countries. This deal, which parliament doesn't get to scrutinize, will see the elimination of tariffs on imports from Australia which will likely damage the UK farming industry but usher in very slightly cheaper wine. This post Brexit deal will likely be the template for others down the road. It's contents is more bad and ugly than good.
mauvais
on reddit or something
Dead at 39 isn't a great innings is it, maybe don't stress yourself out about weights and measures.Metric martyr dies
A greengrocer whose stubborn refusal to abandon imperial weights and measures led to him being dubbed a Metric Martyr has died from a suspected heart attack at the age of 39.
Although I suppose in imperial that's 85.9803.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Years are hardly metric are they
7 day weeks
12 months in a year
365 days in the year: most of the time
24 hours in a day
ska invita
back on the other side
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
His figures of Australias needed is 1800 out.
And he's focussing on GDP, which as we all know is a bobbins measurement in the first place.
Other than that, blindin' tweet
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Other than that, blindin' tweet
He's paid for that type of 'analysis' as well...
editor
hiraethified
His figures of Australias needed is 1800 out.
And he's focussing on GDP, which as we all know is a bobbins measurement in the first place.
Other than that, blindin' tweet
Perhaps you can supply a set of figures that reveal why this is, in fact, an amazing deal for everyone?
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I read somewhere that wages are up 8.4% in the last year. The article was actually about state pension increases.
An 8.4% increase would be nice, but would cost about £5Bn.
Great to have a load of racists over to fuel the fire
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