Don't Be Fooled By .Metric Changes

[needawin]

More nonsense from Downing Street.
Don't be fooled by the latest guff from Johnson with the change back to. "Our" Pounds and ounces.
All to mislead the public with the price of food and petrol etc.
People now are aware of the prices as they are. With the change people will be confused
with the prices.

[naomi24]

It’s not ‘changing back’. Read the news reports.

[barry1010]

Already discussed here
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1797840.html

Nobody is going to be misled or confused. Shopkeepers can simply display their prices with imperial weights and measures if they choose to - as well as metric.

[William51]

I have been giving Boris the benefit of my doubt but with this the government has lost the plot. The daftest idea for a while, especially after we have got used to the present system.

[naomi24]

William, the current system isn’t going anywhere. Why is that so difficult for people to get their heads around? This is just a gesture.

[Bazile]

Silly old billy

If it ain't fixed , then break it

[CrapAtCryptics]

I dont see the problem I`m an old f**t and I can work out the conversions between metric and imperial in my head so why is it such a big issue for some especially as most phones will do it if you ask.

[naomi24]

No one is ‘breaking it’, bazile.

[Bazile]

tongue n cheek

[Old_Geezer]

Not banning citizens from displaying their goods in whatever measuring system they choose is a returned freedom/right, and so a perfectly good thing. It's not like it's stopping other issues being addressed, or anything else unfortunate.

[douglas9401]

This is being allowed now because those of us who can do the conversion in our heads are a dying breed who also know that decimalisation and metrication were brought in to enable price rises in everything all at once. Nothing to do with easiness of calculation or any other BS.

Money grab way back then, nothing more or less.

[Zacs-Master]

Love it when someone shoots themselves in the foot like this. Daily Mail reader, needawin? Chortle.

[Ellipsis]

I'll slip on my old size 33s (barleycorns, dear) and get around to my local greengrocer's ... oh they closed in 1996.

[Paul22118]

I feel Boris is simply responding to some of the issues brought up around Brexit. For example when I ask my son how many to the gallon does his latest car do - he looks at me blankly and says I don't know....
Allowing petrol to be sold in gallons and bananas to be sold in pounds is not a revolution, just a little tweek to our 'Britishness'. Maybe.

[Boto]

Speak for yourself.

[Boto]

Speak for yourself. What’s confusing?

[ichkeria]

Do we actually know what's involved? No one seems to know.

I have to say it sounds utterly daft.
A bit like the attempt to revive the Monday lunchtime FA Cup draws a few years ago (!)
We still have miles per gallon and pint glasses, and this works very well. I suspect it will turn out to be a pointless bit of nothing very much.

[Ellipsis]

Get reimperialisation done

[archibaldy]

/// Do we actually know what's involved? No one seems to know. ///

This smacks a bit of the government's lockdown strategy which was leak something vague and then take the nation's temperature before deciding how far to go with it. It's certainly not a fix for any of the real issues we face but if it cheers some old people up then why not, for me if, given the option, a shop doesn't sell in metric then I won't be shopping there.

[jno]

Boris's efforts to bring back the past by having London buses with open platforms didn't last, but they involved the customary cost to the public purse (£300m+).

What the heck, bring back the groat, the bushel and the penny black stamp. What could go wrong?

[Togo]

Do you all remember the wormtongue soothing words when it was declared, that amongst other things characteristically British, the Crown stamp on draught or optic glasses was to be made unnecesarry due the adoption of the new and exciting EUSSR identification mark? The weights and measures that had served us well and stood the test of time, even passing down into everyday language as defining markers would also have to be abandoned. The new and easily understood manipulators tools were going to make our lives so much simpler, and we were getting upset over nothing for asking why and how? It really was only a small thing and a slight shift after all. Notice how the reverse slight shift, promised in no small part due to public opinion and demand, to re deploy the trusted Crown symbol and to actively encourage the use of our inherited weights and measures is suddenly a very big thing indeed. Despite not being officially in use for decades, the very hint of reintroduction is now a very big move indeed.Meehh. The remainiacs and anti British have not gone away, they remain to poison our self esteem and regard for each other and can be easily identified.