Has anyone changed their mind about Brexit?

A_Medium_Size_Jock

westernpromise wrote: »

But you think in mph, and you know your height and weight in imperial but not in metric. Am I right?

Here's a quick test of that. Would a woman 166cm tall who weighed 69.5kg look overweight?

Now here it is in imperial. Would a 5'5" woman who weighed 11 stone look overweight?

Here's another. Which car is more economical, one that does 34mpg or one that uses 9 litres per 100km?

Imperial measurements are very handy if you haven't a ruler. One joint of your thumb is an inch, your forearm is a foot, and from fingers of outstretched hand to opposite shoulder, archer style, is a yard (hence "clothyard arrow"). A kilo is just two old French pounds and an old French pound is 1.1 English pounds, which is why in the Napoleonic Wars British 9-pounder guns and French 8-pounder guns could fire each other's ammunition. A metre is three French feet which was also 10% bigger than an English one. A Roman mile was 2,000 paces, a Roman pace was 80cm so a mile was 1,600m or 1,760 yards. Etc....

:T
Spot on.
That's quite a few measurements where imperial persists over metric still.

The_Last_Username wrote: »

Eh?
Oh yes it did.
Did you not read that very clearly linked bit from MSJ explaining that joining the EEC "obliged the United Kingdom to incorporate into domestic law all EEC directives, including the use of a prescribed SI-based set of units for many purposes within five years"?
Is that really not clear enough?

Correct.
The SI system:

The International System of Units (French: Système international d'unit!s pronounced: [sistɛm ɛ̃tɛʁnasjɔnal dynite]; abbreviated as SI) is the modern form of the metric system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units

Ballard

So that's what it boils down to is it? We want to measure in yards and not those pesky foreign meters.

zagubov

Ballard wrote: »

So that's what it boils down to is it? We want to measure in yards and not those pesky foreign meters.

Steady on!
We spell it as metres in British English.

There are plenty of overlooked units we need to preserve for posterity.
In fact, there's an odd website about such units including the attoparsec ( about an inch) and the microfortnight (1.2 seconds) or the nanocentury (pi seconds).;)

A_Medium_Size_Jock

Ballard wrote: »

So that's what it boils down to is it? We want to measure in yards and not those pesky foreign meters.

Are you deliberately missing out the myriad other reasons?
I refer you to this earlier post which lists just a few:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=72148491&postcount=195

Ballard

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

Are you deliberately missing out the myriad other reasons?
I refer you to this earlier post which lists just a few:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=72148491&postcount=195

To be honest I haven't read any of this thread other than the last page and posted with more than a little degree of fun. If people want to think that Brussels has made their life significantly worse by banning chains and stones then that's their prerogative.

gfplux

Ballard wrote: »

To be honest I haven't read any of this thread other than the last page and posted with more than a little degree of fun. If people want to think that Brussels has made their life significantly worse by banning chains and stones then that's their prerogative.

Many many people think the EU has made their life significantly worse every day for forty years. That's why they voted to leave. Others thought that the EU had made their daily life better and safer and so voted to remain.
I don't imagine many people have changed their minds.
With all this happening daily it will be very complicated to negotiate the divorce.
But don't worry Britain is leaving at the end of March 2019.

Thrugelmir

gfplux wrote: »

Many many people think the EU has made their life significantly worse every day for forty years.

The average age of those that voted is far lower than 60.

antrobus

The_Last_Username wrote: »

Eh?
Oh yes it did.
Did you not read that very clearly linked bit from MSJ explaining that joining the EEC "obliged the United Kingdom to incorporate into domestic law all EEC directives, including the use of a prescribed SI-based set of units for many purposes within five years"?
Is that really not clear enough?

But the EU has long since given up on trying.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6988521.stm

LHW99

But the EU has long since given up on trying.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6988521.stm

Ah yes but in that article, if you read through it .......

John Gardner Director of the British Weight & Measures Association said "If a trader tries to conduct his business in just imperial measurements that will be illegal."

and.........

The UK Metric Association said the statement does not mean that traders can go back to weighing and pricing in imperial measures, and it will be "business as usual"