caveman
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- East Sussex.
For the numptie wokes...Isn't it more about lifting the outlawing of using imperial than negating metric?
The benefits of Brexit report out today
- Thread starter Muck Spreader
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- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
The uk started the process in 65 it was many years before it was enforced.
My stepson did an apprenticeship around 2010, he uses imperial I use metric as it's much easier, it's a matter of choice , with what's going on in the world hardly a big deal but it's all grist to the mill for those that want to keep a six year old story going.
Your house ?
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Your house ?
visited it yesterday, it’s not a bad place
mrs Czech likes gardens, so most of our trips tend to involve gardens
No you can go to any pub in the country and buy a pint of beer. Supermarkets up and down the land sell milk in pints and butter in pounds.
What is being proposed is to remove the requirement to display metric equivalent value. Thereby damaging fairness.
Well a lot of people have been born in the years since 1965 who have had progressively less experience with imperial measures.
I have two concerns - mainly it is fairness - metric measures being mandatory ensures fairness in pricing between suppliers. Secondly, the likes of foot-pounds and slugs/ft^3 are objectively worse for anything serious like engineering.
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- Location
- Scottish Highlands
No serious engineer would use imperial.
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
I must admit, when I started buying steel, in the mid 1970’s I was getting prices in tons and tonnes, made comparing a bit of a ball ache. Still, if that is what new 2020’s Britain wants to go back too?
extraordinary to think, I can remember my first entries in the buying book, prices per tonne in the £60 per tonne
extraordinary to think, I can remember my first entries in the buying book, prices per tonne in the £60 per tonne
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Nobody who went to school after 1970 will not know the metric system. Doing things in imperial is a choice but when we are drilling corn and i’m trying to set the drill for 10 stone an acre then convert it to kilos per hectare my son looks at me like i’m mental.
And yet my stepson is exactly, that his apprentice master used both dont forget many machines were made before we went metric so the engineers repairing them need to understand both systems.
I dont think anyone is suggesting we go back to imperial as a nation but we do use many imperial measurements, IE MPG, pints of beer,milk, miles on signposts etc,
I'm sure wecan survive a few selling goods by imperial.
Boeing use imperial
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
On the 737 max especially.
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Passed .down from my Dad. When we’ve drilled up a field i always work it back to Ston(e) an acre. None of your metric nonsense.if that’s what you are doing...
You are mental
Thats the problem with the 737s in europe the need special 5/8 bolts but they’re putting 15mm ones in that don’t fit you’d be mad to go on holiday in one.
I work on hundredweight and a half , stones are very complicated
I have both 9/16 spanners and sockets .
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
If i tell anyone here about hundredweights they look at me funny my son asks if that’s how we used to weigh dinosaurs. Good idea on the spanners.I work on hundredweight and a half , stones are very complicated
I have both 9/16 spanners and sockets .
- Location
- Bay of Plenty NZ
And they believe in intelligent design!!
Hockey as Mrs. T, disdainfully referred to him, could in another place abd era, fit snugly hand in glove with the Boris era Tories. Made of the same arrogant stuff. Self centred, ruthless, dominant, domineering, greedy, corrupt, and a roving eye to boot. Didn’t however come from monied, establishment stock and so would probably never really fitted in with the Old Etonian Tory elite.
Did you notice, the good people of the ROI, had several governments of the Haughey era, and a couple after him under Ahearne, made of the same ilk and attitude. Then we woke up, and absolutely minced them at the polls. Fianna Fail, is now a mere weak shadow of what it was, and what it became.
Shame you guys don’t wake up, smell the roses and absolutely wipe out the Tory Elite. Their comeuppance is well and truly past due.
But of course your undemocratic stitch up of a FPP system, is designed to keep two sections of the populace in their traditional places. Pleb majority to fetch, carry and be marched off to war, to make up the requisite cannon fodder. Establishment micro minority, to run the government and civil service, military, banking system, own an extraordinary amount of land, etc, etc, etc.
Hey ho,….