Chatter Bank So Light Hearted

[weecalf]

All this talk about leaving which was EEC .What was the for you the most annoying or down right stupid directive from the EEC .Mine would have been getting rid of Stones and pounds .(is ton still allowed ) .

[Peter Pedant]

// I thought the conversation was swinging round to migrants again Mikey.//

oh my God someone reassure me that we are not going to be murdered in our beds by creeping metrification

even my dog is giving me a horrified look as i type this

[Jackdaw33]

Tell me a temperature in degrees F and I immediately know how hot or cold it is. Tell me the same in degrees C and I haven't a clue.

[Svejk]

Think you've misunderstood Hopkirk's joke, as well. For what it's worth, I thought it was quite witty, Hopkirk.

[Jackdaw33]

When did anyone last see a bacon slicer in the butcher's shop where you could select the thickness, and with the rinds on? Thanks, EU.

[Cloverjo]

I'm the opposite, Jackdaw. I can't deal with temperatures in Fahrenheit. I have to ask for a translation. :) I'm a bit of a mix. Temperatures have to be in Celsius, babies in pounds and ounces, distances in miles, and height in feet and inches.

[paddywak]

Having to carry two sets of tools.The Mines & Quarries Act was very specific about everything used underground so all the old stuff was imperial and newer metric and some machines had both.

[melv16]

I used to have 3 sets of spanners when I worked in the steel works. Metric, Whitworth and AF.

[Peter Pedant]

// Think you've misunderstood Hopkirk's joke, as well. For what it's worth, I thought it was quite witty, Hopkirk.//

I am frequently misunderstood Schweik

I think we will have to say we remain .... poles apart.

[ bit of a clunky pun there but it is midnight ..]

[Peter Pedant]

o god having to do applied math problems in foot-pound-second was a nightmare

[Jackdaw33]

Hangmen use to work in foot-pounds.

[anneasquith]

Scheik. Ooft.

[DaisyNonna]

Still have a farthing

[EDDIE51]

It is pounds and ounces I find hard to understand. Left school in 1968 and went straight into a job in a chemistry research lab. It was metric all the way, I have never used an imperial measurement at work.