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BravoV:
Source -> https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-bids-jubilee-boost-27090524

Quotes :

... BoJo is planning to announce that imperial measurements will be revived to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee...

... the move represents a victory for 'metric martyrs' it is a largely symbolic one to address gripes about EU interference in traditional English life. ...  ???

tom66:
Quite frankly I won't be happy until I'm paying for my seven hogsheads of four-star leaded petrol in shillings and guineas.  Anything else will not represent True Brexit.

IanB:
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?

PKTKS:
So next will be the world is back to plain not round and the center is not the sun...

Paul

magic:
So the new unit of voltage is pound times square inch per coulomb per square second? I will try to remember ;D
Is there an imperial unit of charge I forgot about?

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