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UK back to "imperial" measurements ?
Monkeh:
--- Quote from: TimFox on May 30, 2022, 07:17:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: IanB on May 30, 2022, 07:10:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: CJay on May 30, 2022, 05:58:33 pm ---Nor were Imperial units ever banned in the UK, it's just another lie, more smoke and mirrors to mislead the gullible.
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They may not be banned, but they are prohibited. You can go to the greengrocer and buy two pounds of potatoes, but by law the price must be shown by the kilogram and the receipt must show the weight in kg.
https://www.gov.uk/weights-measures-and-packaging-the-law
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From that UK legal source: "You can display an imperial measurement alongside the metric measurement but it cannot stand out more than the metric measurement."
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And thus you see how hilariously pointless this Brexit execise by The Johnson is.
coppice:
--- Quote from: IanB on May 30, 2022, 07:10:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: CJay on May 30, 2022, 05:58:33 pm ---Nor were Imperial units ever banned in the UK, it's just another lie, more smoke and mirrors to mislead the gullible.
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They may not be banned, but they are prohibited. You can go to the greengrocer and buy two pounds of potatoes, but by law the price must be shown by the kilogram and the receipt must show the weight in kg.
https://www.gov.uk/weights-measures-and-packaging-the-law
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They aren't prohibited. The law only requires the same common ground units be used for comparing prices. Sometimes that can be something non-metric like price per sheet for toilet paper. We have some weirdities with units in the UK. We went metric around the time home deliveries of milk ended. Home delivered milk was in pint glass bottles. People migrated to buying their milk in litres from the supermarket. At some point, for reasons I don't know, the supermarket milk changed to pint bottles, and that's where they are today. We buy specialised (e.g. chocolate) milks in litre bottles, but plain milk in 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 pint plastic bottles.
CJay:
--- Quote from: IanB on May 30, 2022, 07:10:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: CJay on May 30, 2022, 05:58:33 pm ---Nor were Imperial units ever banned in the UK, it's just another lie, more smoke and mirrors to mislead the gullible.
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They may not be banned, but they are prohibited. You can go to the greengrocer and buy two pounds of potatoes, but by law the price must be shown by the kilogram and the receipt must show the weight in kg.
https://www.gov.uk/weights-measures-and-packaging-the-law
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Thank you for proving my point.
TimFox:
Before 1974, the price of gasoline in the US was well below $1.00 per US gallon.
With the oil shock, the price rose, but most gas-station pumps could not use a price above $1.00.
However, most could be set for liters, so Americans found themselves buying gasoline by the liter until the pumps could be replaced.
Now, the US retail price is above $1.00 per liter, but the electronic pump controls can handle much higher prices than that.
Similarly, wine and spirits used to be sold here by the "fifth", which was 1/5 gallon = 0.8 quart = 757.0 ml = 25.6 fl oz.
Taking advantage of the standard European size for spirits and wine bottles, we now buy them in 750 ml size = 25.4 fl oz.
We all know what happens to prices when units change.
TimFox:
--- Quote from: floobydust on May 30, 2022, 07:19:57 pm ---I find the US is not metric. Example Bud Industries all dimensions are inches. Cringe. Even though they're made in Asia.
Hammond is a one button click for Imperial or Metric units. What's so hard about that.
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So you would rather they change all their drawings, which are now "even" in inches and use US sheet-metal gauges, rather than do the exact conversion (since 1 inch = exactly 25.4 mm) on your calculator?
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