So much for Global Britain ..!

HatsOff

Member
Mixed Farmer
Sounds fine
We never really went metric anyway
Still use MPH and things like that
Some will use it some won't, hardly worth worrying to much about
Except nothing in commerce or engineering uses imperial.

For me it's a matter of free enterprise. You can't compete fairly or transparently using two different weights and measures systems, for which anyone under the age of 50 has very little formal knowledge of.
 

Ashtree

Member
It’s all a bag of Borisonian fluster, bluster and wind, designed to distract the plebs, from the aftermath of Brexit, Covid and a myriad of other things that need paying for. He calculates that by dealing another three card trick, the plebs will get a sense of “sovereignty” to sooth over their troubles.
It will of course go down like a lead balloon. Be like asking the latest iPhone generation, to go back to the old BT phone booth, as their only way of communication.
 
All done according to the rules and regulations with an Untreated Milk (Green Top) licence.

I held an untreated (Raw) milk licence from the early eighties until I packed up with cows altogether.

Local EHO argued with his boss regarding how we should be protecting the heads of galvanised techscrews holding a second layer of hygenic cladding on to the walls from being knocked off whilst washing down the walls in the bottling dairy - ,He had brought seven police with him to shut our bottling dairy down for 4 weeks despite having absolutely no complaints or poor sample results of either the final product or the sanitized bottles prior to filling.

Even the wording on the enamelled bottles had to be approved by them.

Using re-cycled PET CocaCola bottles and using milk from a herd without specific testing and a name on the bottle AND cap didnt even come into the equation.

We had bulk TBC's of ZERO (Band A was 0-20).
 

Ashtree

Member
With realities like this coming down the line, anything that confuses pleb, and makes direct before and after cost of shopping more difficult, is a good thing. Average pleb is easily bamboozled as the Brexit campaign proved in spades. Throw ounces, pounds, cwt’s, roods, perches, acres, inches, feet, yards, at the poor barztard, he will completely blow his motherboard.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/sainsbury-s-brexit-food-supply-chain-b1921919.html
 

caveman

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Location
East Sussex.
All done according to the rules and regulations with an Untreated Milk (Green Top) licence.

I held an untreated (Raw) milk licence from the early eighties until I packed up with cows altogether.

Local EHO argued with his boss regarding how we should be protecting the heads of galvanised techscrews holding a second layer of hygenic cladding on to the walls from being knocked off whilst washing down the walls in the bottling dairy - ,He had brought seven police with him to shut our bottling dairy down for 4 weeks despite having absolutely no complaints or poor sample results of either the final product or the sanitized bottles prior to filling.

Even the wording on the enamelled bottles had to be approved by them.

Using re-cycled PET CocaCola bottles and using milk from a herd without specific testing and a name on the bottle AND cap didnt even come into the equation.

We had bulk TBC's of ZERO (Band A was 0-20).
Oh well.
Shame it all came to nought. Eh?
 
Oh well.
Shame it all came to nought. Eh?
Yep, ahead of our time and with a catchment of miners and ex-miners who tend not to be trendsetters in the culinary field.
My eldest daughter was at Reasheath and the main project she developed was with kefir about 10 years before it became mainstream and before the dairy lecturers had even heard of it.
 

arcobob

Member
Location
Norfolk
People were actually put in prison for selling vegetables in markets in lb and oz. Prison. I can't see anything wrong in allowing people to sell their produce in lb and oz again if they so wish.
The last time I went to ROI I visited a farmer`s market in Cork. There was a French lady selling cheese but when I started to order in grams she said that she only had imperial scales. By this time it was illegal to sell in imperial measures in the UK and traders were being heavily fined but, as usual. the Irish and French could not give a stuff about EU directives. Who has been undermining the EU project all these years?
 

arcobob

Member
Location
Norfolk
I think that reverting to imperial standards would be a retrograde step. They are based on archaic principles and are difficult to handle. particularly British currency. I was brought up during the transition period and with an agile mind and a moderate grasp of mental arithmetic have managed to cope in both the agricultural and engineering environs but changing back would be a nightmare for younger generations and totally unnecessary.
In my opinion the Yanks have got it wrong and it is holding them back.
 

PFinSuffolk

Member
BASIS
How better to demonstrate our wish to trade with the world than reject universal S.I. Units ?

Even the USA has a metric conversion act


From the Times …

“Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, …”
Wonder if we should use kgs, measure in my and metres, drive in miles and hour and serve beer in pints…. Oh we do…
 

czechmate

Member
Mixed Farmer
I think that reverting to imperial standards would be a retrograde step. They are based on archaic principles and are difficult to handle. particularly British currency. I was brought up during the transition period and with an agile mind and a moderate grasp of mental arithmetic have managed to cope in both the agricultural and engineering environs but changing back would be a nightmare for younger generations and totally unnecessary.
In my opinion the Yanks have got it wrong and it is holding them back.

It would be good for the young to use their brains a bit. Darts should be compulsory too.
And put cement back in cwt bags - worlds gone f**king soft
 

Ashtree

Member
The last time I went to ROI I visited a farmer`s market in Cork. There was a French lady selling cheese but when I started to order in grams she said that she only had imperial scales. By this time it was illegal to sell in imperial measures in the UK and traders were being heavily fined but, as usual. the Irish and French could not give a stuff about EU directives. Who has been undermining the EU project all these years?

Dear sweet divine Bob, but you are I’d safely say, perfect company for a lash of pints down the local. If you were in my company, neither one of us I dare say, could believe a single word coming from the other. Best keep things like that I find, particularly when the local great and the good, are straining their necks to hear the gossip. When last by the way, were you in Cork? Would that have been before the Crimean War, or as late as the sixties?
 
The last time I went to ROI I visited a farmer`s market in Cork. There was a French lady selling cheese but when I started to order in grams she said that she only had imperial scales. By this time it was illegal to sell in imperial measures in the UK and traders were being heavily fined but, as usual. the Irish and French could not give a stuff about EU directives. Who has been undermining the EU project all these years?

I'm guessing it was a way for the UK to lay down a law and use the EU as their reason.
 

stewart

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Horticulture
Location
Bay of Plenty NZ
I'm guessing it was a way for the UK to lay down a law and use the EU as their reason.
And 20 months after the UK left the EU those nasty foreigners are still being used as an excuse for the ills that befall Britain, or should that be Global Britain. Things should start to improve once they get back to using good old Pounds Shillings and Pence and start selling goods in Lbs and ozs.
 

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