A brexit benefit

[ReganAndCarter]

Duplicate.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Lol. It’s 1.25% whatever way you look at it.

No, it is 10.4% if you look at it properly, and

the employer will presumably increase prices to offset his increase.

 

[Mottie]

I pay my fair share...

Same here.
And when I say I’m going to do something, I do it.
Unlike some!

 

[Tigercubrider]

the continued use of imperial was putto be in 2007.
The then plan had be to eventually move to metric only but they came to an agreement that Ireland and the UK could continue using what they wished within their borders.
It was never "illegal" to use imperial, but it was illegal to to have the prices also marked up in metric.

To me that makes sense - the UK took the final decision to move to full metrication in 1965.
Nothing to do with the EU. Neither was decimalisation.
Even American cars are metric nowadays, partly due to common parts around the world.

Same as the pint glass crown. It's still there, although not a "legal" requirement.
It's a representation of what was once the effective "hall mark" of certification.

 

[Trazor]

It was never "illegal" to use imperial, but it was illegal to to have the prices also marked up in metric.

Some market traders were prosecuted, and found guilty, for selling certain vegetables, in lb and ounces.

Common sense, eventually prevailed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...y-win-right-sell-fruit-veg-pounds-ounces.html

 

[Tigercubrider]

There's a typo in my quoted statement. It should have said " it was illegal to not have the metric weight and price displayed"

The "Metric Martyrs" were not found guilty of selling in imperial, they were guilty of using scales that did not conform to Trading Standards regs.

A set of mass comparators for use by council Trading Standards Officers will cost in excess of £30k - no doubt any old scales will have been disposed of years ago. So look forward to

The uk signed the OIML treaty in 1856 and Britain officially accepted Metric in 1875

Any idea who uses Imperial?
The USA (using customary units that differ from ours) and Myanmar - hardly an export bonus
BTW the USA also signed the OIML treaty and uses a lot of metric in it's dealings with Canada and Mexico

 

[Trazor]

Any idea who uses Imperial?

I'm sure many OAP's only understand imperial when shopping at the market.

 

[fillyboy]

Any idea who uses Imperial?

The reality is almost nobody, how many people walk into a builders merchant and ask for an 8 x 4 sheet of something?, almost everybody. It's no more than common parlance.

 

[EFLImpudence]

It's certainly easier than 2440 x 1220.

 

[fillyboy]

It's certainly easier than 2440 x 1220.

Also, not that the situation has arisen recently, I'd feel a lot more comfortable saying to a 'bird' 6 inches as opposed to 150 millimetres.

 

[fillyboy]

It's certainly easier than 2440 x 1220.

A random thought, would an anti-semitic cockney lover of metrification refer to a Jew as a 1220 x 610?

 

[Notch7]

The imperial thing is just another Tory distraction to hide ever increasing Brexit chaos.

 

[EFLImpudence]

The imperial thing is just another Tory distraction to hide ever increasing Brexit chaos.

Surely nowadays it will be considered racist.

 

[noseall]

Had a guy measure up for some internal bi-fold doors, and he used inches. He was 70 though, so I let him off.

I endured imperial for the first 11 years of my working life. NEVER again.

 

[fillyboy]

I endured imperial for the first 11 years of my working life. NEVER again.

I don't entirely believe you. If you spent the first eleven years of your life thinking 'Oh my God this imperial stuff is so complicated' then you are by your own admission as thick as a whale sandwich. The reality is when metric came along it made more sense and after an adjustment period was easier to use, but don't tell me that in a merchant you don't refer to sheet materials as 8 x 4 or 3 x 2,