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When you've even lost Tim Stanley...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/10/nigel-farage-rishi-sunak-leadership-challenge/One thing the Tories have always held over small-C conservative voters is the warning: “Labour will be worse” – that if you let the Left in, Starmer will open the borders, raise taxes and hand the culture over to lunatics.
But given that the Conservatives have done all of those things with knobs on, how could granting Labour a Reform-assisted landslide be any worse than a substantial majority? It would certainly make for some compelling reality TV on election night.
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I'm amazed that there are even 0.4% who want a fully imperial system. Presumably they are confused elderly people who didn't bother to learn what a kilogram is in the last 40 years and think everyone else should be punished for their ignorance.
In the last week, i have bought jeans in inches and beer in pints so it's not like people are being forced into a 100% metric system anyway. I rarely buy anything where I have to specify measurements but I am sure that if I went to buy sausages by the pound or fabric by the yard, the shop would accommodate my request.
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I think it simply highlights that people are reluctant to change.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I would be very reluctant to change to a worse system certainly.
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Except 82.4% are reluctant to change to fully metric too.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Wasn’t that his point? We’ve become ‘bilingual’ so there’s no real benefit in committing to one of the other. It’s a bit odd when, for example, I record a running sessions as 4 x 1km at 7 minute / mile pace but pretty much anyone knows what I mean. The same when I go to site and the ground worker is talking about 6x5 kerbs when they get specified as 150x125 but I know what they mean (and in most cases the ground worker wasn’t born when they were last officially specified in imperial.
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"objectively quite funny that after all that tub-thumping about imperial measurements barely 1% of the public want them back"
I read it as "imperial is history and should remain that way".
Barely worthy of comment really. Nobody has raised the issue of going back AFAIK. Clickbait in other words.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Sorry I assumed you were responding to the comment in the post you were quoting. I think going back was a bit of a wet dream of hardline Brexiteers or at least one of their weapons in stirring up votes. They liked to play on the rose tinted life in Britain before those pesky Europeans made us change everything and it went down well with a certain demographic.
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Losing track to what everyone is referring to.
I’m referring to the tweet posted.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
It bemuses me that children still refer to their height in feet & inches and weight in stones (though not universally for the latter). I can actually appreciate the human references for feet & inches, the factorability of both pounds, feet and l.s.d., and the ease of halving measurements, rather than decimal divisions... so I can partly see why they haven't completely disappeared.
That said, the metric system does make the maffs a lot easier.
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I have my bike computer set in miles but when I go for a longish ride I always make sure it’s at least 62.14 miles.
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Tbh, I don't recall making more use of imperial measures playing any significant role in gathering votes for the Brexit cause. It's more a result of the government thinking "WTF can we portray as an actual Brexit benefit now we've actually gone and done it?" Pre-Brexit, the rhetoric was much more grandiose.
Could be wrong though as I switched off TV coverage of the referendum and subsequent GE campaigns as my TV screen would have otherwise been at serious risk, and only really get my news via (supposedly) serious print media outlets these days.
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Oh wow, this is real.
Some idiot actually thinks manufacturers will reorganise their factories to sell wine in a-bit-more-than-two-thirds-of-a-bottle.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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He is called Boris.
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Why would anyone want to buy a 568ml bottle of wine when a 750ml bottle is often a glass short.
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Can't see the point past pandering to those looking for a long lost empire.
Buy a bottle, you don't have to finish it. If you do finish it, buy a second, you don't have to finish it....
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
That's quite extraordinary. You have to wonder if they are just trying to find out how far down the satirical road they can go. Or if the Tories' PR people are actually trying to make them look ridiculous and Tories can't see the subterfuge, as with the Sunak Home Alone rebuffed cat kiss video.
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I'm off down the pub shortly for a 568ml or two of beer.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
Apparently under the current rules the smaller sizes for still and sparkling are different, and this is being changed. Adding a pint size is just noise.
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I blame Fat Sam Allardyce, that super successful moneyball manager, for his 'pint of wine' vibe.
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I think you’re proving the point there, we’ve always had freedom to continue using a pint.
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There's an exception for milk and beer.
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now brexit means less bubbly in a bottle
it's all downside so far
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We can use what measure we want, but one sounds better than the other.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I think you're right about the 'noise'... not least as it takes the focus off other more important things.
Amusingly, one (Tory) MP trumpeted it, then got put in his place by at least a couple of wine traders, when he suddenly went all shy. Yet more evidence of GBT (government by tweet) - it seems to have replaced any actual policy decisions. I, for one, would be happy if politicians tweeted less, not least as I suspect the focus is on the reactions that tweets get, rather than considering whether a policy is sensible & workable.
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