brilliant news, i can order a pint of bitter and a pint of shandy instead of a pint of bitter and a large shandy
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!