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Post by hilda on May 15, 2017 9:15:46 GMT
I was wondering if and when we have brexit proper, if we will go back to pounds and oz. , yards and inches,ect. I have never liked that metric rubbish, so I would like to go back to proper weights and measures,
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Post by peterboat on May 15, 2017 9:21:41 GMT
I still do everything in feet and inches, and pounds and pints! Dont why I should change the habit of a lifetime
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Post by patty on May 15, 2017 9:55:08 GMT
I get kilometres mixed up with kilograms and as for other metric stuff..not a hope...
I refer to stuff in a mixed bag of units..I knows what i'm talking about...
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 11:15:05 GMT
I can switch between metric and imperial pretty quickly in my head as I know all the conversions.
My boats are measured in feet and I weigh approx 10 stone so I am basically an imperial type of person overall.
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Post by lollygagger on May 15, 2017 11:48:16 GMT
We never really went decimal, stuff still has to fit. Steel pipe for example just got converted on paper so it's now just as incomprehensible as it ever was. 60.3mm, 76.2mm etc. and still the same sizes.
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Post by JohnV on May 15, 2017 12:13:45 GMT
supermarkets keep trying to introduce egg boxes for ten eggs ...... crazy ..... how can you fit a dozen into one of those  |
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Post by patty on May 15, 2017 14:52:50 GMT
supermarkets keep trying to introduce egg boxes for ten eggs ...... crazy ..... how can you fit a dozen into one of those I dunno that one just not right...how can i plan basing my thoughts on a dozen eggs when theres only 10? however as i don't really like eggs never buy more than 6 |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 16:31:21 GMT
You need eggs to make cake! Even I know that  Rog |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 17:29:02 GMT
I was wondering if and when we have brexit proper, if we will go back to pounds and oz. , yards and inches,ect. I have never liked that metric rubbish, so I would like to go back to proper weights and measures, I wasn't aware we had given imperial measurements up. What do you know that the rest of us do not? |
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Post by patty on May 15, 2017 17:36:51 GMT
You need eggs to make cake! Even I know that Rog What 10?..blimey |
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 15, 2017 17:51:56 GMT
I was wondering if and when we have brexit proper, if we will go back to pounds and oz. , yards and inches,ect. I have never liked that metric rubbish, so I would like to go back to proper weights and measures, I wasn't aware we had given imperial measurements up. We have in many applications. Timber is sold in metric lengths, petrol is sold by the litre, almost all food is sold by the kilogram, even a tin of beans which has contents of exactly 1lb will be labelled as 454g. Personally I can work in both although I find imperial far more logical when it comes to lengths and distances, and I do believe carpenters in Germany use it as their standard measurement. |
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Post by Stumpy on May 15, 2017 17:52:30 GMT
You need eggs to make cake! Even I know that Rog Bit of an eggsaggeration  |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 18:15:42 GMT
I wasn't aware we had given imperial measurements up. We have in many applications. Timber is sold in metric lengths, petrol is sold by the litre, almost all food is sold by the kilogram, even a tin of beans which has contents of exactly 1lb will be labelled as 454g. Personally I can work in both although I find imperial far more logical when it comes to lengths and distances, and I do believe carpenters in Germany use it as their standard measurement. Personally I can generally work in both too so I don't consider imperial as consigned to the scrap heap. A metre is basically a yard in my book. The only one I generally work exclusively in is weights but then I generally only need to concern myself with metric weights is when I'm sending something I've sold on eBay as the PO work in metric. As for fuel I buy it on spend not on quantity. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 15, 2017 19:09:44 GMT
Weights are almost exclusively metric nowadays, the one exception being the cannabis trade, where product is still sold in ounces and fractions thereof, although nine-bars are in reality quarter-kilograms.
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Post by gigoguy on May 16, 2017 19:17:53 GMT
Weights are almost exclusively metric nowadays, the one exception being the cannabis trade, where product is still sold in ounces and fractions thereof, although nine-bars are in reality quarter-kilograms. Well I think that 20 bags are now weighed in grams.....anything from 1.5-1.8 apparently, so I've been told. (Kids hey!) Fortunately, as you say, there are some purveyors that still supply in Oz's |
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