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> I'm surprised, but thankful, that the Brexit lunacy hasn't (yet) brought calls to return to Imperial and £sd. :) Unfortunately: Return of pounds and ounces?
by stordoff 8y ago
> I'm surprised, but thankful, that the Brexit lunacy hasn't (yet) brought calls to return to Imperial and £sd. :)
Unfortunately:
Return of pounds and ounces? Britain might allow firms to use imperial measures after Brexit https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/return-pounds-ounces-britain-might-allow-firms-use-imperial/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/return-pounds-ou...
EXCLUSIVE: Experts Slam "Bonkers" Proposal To Re-Introduce Imperial Measurements After Brexit, In Letters To Government http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/04/exclusive-experts-slam-bonkers-proposal-to-re-introduce-imperial-measurements-after-brexit-in-letters-to-government/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/04/exclusive-experts-slam-bonk...
Now that we are to be a sovereign nation again, we must bring back imperial units https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/01/now-sovereign-nation-must-bring-back-imperial-units/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/01/now-sovereign-na...
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoSigh. Thankfully I'd missed that. Not surprised it was Heffer, I think he'd like to send us back to about 1912. Gizmodo piece was fairly entertaining though. :)
- jen20 8y agoFortunately the post-boomer “sanity” generation are not going to accept imperial units other than pint (for beer), regardless of what people pining for a past in which they were relevant may want.