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Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on May 28, 2014, 01:46 PM:

The European Union has decreed that the old imperial measurement system is now outlawed.

The Paul Newman film 'Never Give An Inch' is to be retitled 'Never give An 25.400mm'

Posted by Paul Mason (Member # 4015) on May 28, 2014, 03:02 PM:

Fight back. 16mm film to be known as 5/8 inch film.

Posted by Mark Todd (Member # 96) on May 28, 2014, 03:15 PM:

I`m a beggar for often reminding the kids what a score or gross is, and a bakers dozen etc etc.

We get weighed in stones and pounds, and they know about old money and inches and feet. Oh dear. We had better watch out !!!

Best Mark.

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on May 28, 2014, 03:36 PM:

Just when after all these years I was adjusting. [Confused]

Posted by Mike Peckham (Member # 16) on May 29, 2014, 05:25 PM:

Sorry to disappoint, but it's another Euromyth, probably invented by the Daily Express or the Daily (hate) Mail.

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The EU has criminalised the use of imperial units in Britain.

Trading with non-legal units has always been an offence through the centuries. It has been a criminal offence to use the peck and bushel since 1968. Other units whose use has been a criminal offence for some years include the stone and hundredweight. Penalties are set by national governments.

On the wider issue of denying freedom of choice, weights and measures legislation is there to protect the public, by ensuring that the standards used for measuring equipment are maintained, and that traders are providing honest and open information to the public. Trading Standards Officers protect the public against unscrupulous traders. To permit traders and public to pick and choose which units they want to use would lead to anarchy, and the sort of confusion that anti-metric supporters claim to be against. There was no outcry by such people when a UK publican was fined by Trading Standards for selling beer in metric measures! Nor were there any complaints when it became illegal to sell by the stone several years ago.

Mike

Posted by Paul Mason (Member # 4015) on May 30, 2014, 02:19 AM:

Bravo Mike!! [Smile]

Posted by Rob Young. (Member # 131) on May 30, 2014, 03:13 AM:

We laugh now, but Derann actually went through a short phase of listing all the second hand films in metres [Eek!]

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on May 30, 2014, 04:52 AM:

"Other units whose use has been a criminal offence for some years include the stone and hundredweight. Penalties are set by national governments."

I wonder if that's why why I go to the hospital and they weighed me in kilos and I ask for it in English, they then proceed to stick a needle in me. OUCH.

Posted by Mal Brake (Member # 14) on May 30, 2014, 06:45 AM:

I remember that joke from when the UK introduced the metric system to replace imperial weights:

Female pensioner: " I'd like two pounds of potatoes please"
Grocer: "Sorry, my lovely, it's kilos now"
Pensioner: Oh, I'll have two pounds of kilos please"

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