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UK back to "imperial" measurements ?
vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: themadhippy on May 30, 2022, 11:32:52 am ---brilliant news, i can order a pint of bitter and a pint of shandy instead of a pint of bitter and a large shandy
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In Oz, we seem to have undergone a process of "Re-Imperialisation by stealth".
If I want to buy a "Pint" of Beer, I will travel to the "Old Dart"---- Oz beer was served by the "Pot", "Schooner", "Middy" or "Glass".
Such measures were so imbedded in the Australian psyche, that the Metrication Board even turned out a chart, specifying the quantities in Metric measures.
Not any more, though, all the little "Trendoids" wanted to pretend they were in London (never Southampton or Skegness, note) & order in Pints.
"Market Forces", in some unfathomable way, then forced the rest of us into having to buy our beer in the same measures!
The worst thing is, that I always have the sneaking suspicion that I am being fobbed off with wimpy US "Pintettes", not real, red-blooded Pommy Pints!
xrunner:
I mostly use metric now for my own projects. But if I have to deal with contractors or friends ... nope, must be inches, pounds, and deg. F
Silicium81:
With the different measurement systems NASA has missed Mars at least once... |O
I was born with simplicity: the metric system :-+
https://youtu.be/u4r0yrF_Wa0
nightfire:
--- Quote from: IanB on May 30, 2022, 08:28:18 am ---Here in the USA I do like being able to ask for "half a pound" of something at the deli counter. I never could get used to "quarter of a kilogram" or "250 grams".
If you went to Tesco and asked for "a quarter of the farmhouse cheddar" would that automatically be understood as 250 g these days?
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To be consoling: Here in germany it is uncommon to say something like "ein Viertel kilogramm" (A Quarter of a kg) - but: "Ein Viertelliter" (A quarter of a liter=250 ml) is normal measurement when cooking or baking...
As the germans were still using "Pfund" (500 grams), my grandma was used to say halbes Pfund (250 g) or Viertelpfund (=125 g)
themadhippy:
--- Quote --- to pretend they were in London (never Southampton or Skegness,
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Even us poms NEVER pretend to be in smegness,and most who are there tend to pretend there somewhere else
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