Nobody sensible wants imperial only measures- only the morons who probably don’t understand either
If we are going back in time, we should bring back the old punishment system. i.e TAR &FEATHER, STOCKS etc.
> In Berkshire, the petition has so far been signed by three people in the Reading West constituency and four people in Reading East. Elsewhere in the county it has been signed by two people in Newbury, two in Wokingham and one in Maidenhead.
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At this point, the Government are just trolling everyone else to delight their racist, anti-woke, anti-intellectual base.
I just don’t get why anyone would want to use a less accurate and easily logicked system of measurement on purpose. Especially one most people from recent generations know eff all about because they weren’t taught imperial in school… Wonder why that is…
hold on I thought I read it was only going to be an option alongside metric measurements for businesses not mandatory
When they tell you that 1/32″ is nearly a millimetre and thousands of pounds worth of new double glazing doesn’t fit.
Never mind we can just go down the pub and admire the little crown on the glass while the poor homeowner has a tarp up over the massive hole in his house.
Look i know the idea of brexit was to revive our once “glorious” empire but they is nothing “glorious” about our shitty government.
We are supposed to be advancing forward as a nation and not running backwards in advancement until the only options left are thatch huts and a stick and stone.
If they bring latin back i’ll be happy but not everything else we moved on from all that for a reason.
I disagree. We should solely use Imperial measurements as law.
Just like how brexit was forced upon me and my rights were stripped away, we should force Imperial units upon the country. That way they might begin to understand just how fucking idiotic this entire thing was.
I genuinely thought this was just a throwaway stupid suggestion by Tories. But every week I see something about it apparently being a very serious move…
WHY?! You have a couple of generations who have been taught cm and litres etc. I don’t even know what the fuck a gallon is. Only know what a pint is because beer and just take a wild guess at what a yard is.
I don’t understand the Tory obsession with dragging everything backwards. Just because those fucks want to live in the past, doesn’t mean everyone else should have to suffer.
Calls for Government to stop this waste of time and money shitshow, and focus on the cost of living crisis.
I don’t know, I quite like the idea of arguing with a cop, my apologies I mean having an arjie with a bobby.
“No sir, I am adamant that I was going no faster than six dozen furlongs a fortnight, your instrumentation must be mistaken!”
(I think) a Guinea is 1 pound and 1 shilling (£1.05) and luxury goods were marked in guineas instead of pounds because they were that bit more expensive…
It’s completely insane to go back to shit like that.
Just helping shrinkflation and profit squeeze. Instead of a kilo of bacon you can get a 2lbs pack for the same price and loose 20 percent volume.. Next put 112 pennies back in the pound and reduce capital value by 12 percent. Only fkwits with lots of money will be happy with the hit.
I’ve seen a few people describe this policy as a ‘distraction’. That’s fairly dangerous.
It’s not a distraction at all, it’s a rather clever tactic to reduce Labour votes. Suggest a policy which makes no sense at all business wise and is of absolutely no interest to the left, and then when it’s panned by business leaders and independent bodies, claim publicly that it’s ‘Labour and the left wot dunnit’.
If they applied this imperial nonsense to medication people are likely to die as a direct consequence. Utterly ridiculous waste of legislative time when there are so many huge issues facing us.
I am fucking ashamed of this government. It’s a farce. It’s too unbelievable to have even been seen on Brasseye.
This is the best proof yet that Brexiteers are delusional.
Excellent, when do we get to exhume Victorias corpse and start pillaging India again?
Whats next, a consultation to scrap wifi and bring back dial up?
Food inflation on weighted items would jump 10% overnight, cause you bet they’d market 1lb & 2lb items the same price as 500g/1kg items.
Whaaay we’re going back to ergs and dynes, possibly the farthing 🤦♂️🤦♂️☹☹ . We should leave the imperial system to the USA, they’re dumb enough not know the difference.
Really quite offensive that time and money are being wasted on this (even if it’s just looking into the possibility) when so many other things are wrong with country/economy right now. Probably the worlds best example of something not broken that doesn’t need fixing.
Next week: Calls for Government not to bring back Work-houses!
Whilst we’re at it, why not bring back old money? 20 pence to a shilling and 12 shillings to a pound, a pound and a shilling in a guinea, and a bunch of silly words for different groups of coins makes WAY more sense than the current decimal system!
No one wants imperial measurements back, it’s stupid. What’s the point
This government of arsehole wants us to be completely marginalized from the rest of Europe. Fücks sake.
As a Brit I can’t believe I’m saying this but the French did it better
It’s so depressing that this and leaving the ECHR are two government policies currently being touted. There are so many exciting and valuable things that could be done to modernise and improve this country and he we are focussing on measurements and deporting asylum sealers to Rwanda. What a disgrace
More people need to vote to get the tories out. That’s all the politics I belive in for now.
This is the most moronic idea so far.
There’s an imperial-only option?
What kind of twatburger entertained the idea of an imperial-only option in today’s world? And what kind of twatburger would entertain imposing an imperial-only option on the country?
Why do people act like the government wants to switch the entire country over imperial? The change is literally just making it so that it’s won’t be illegal to sell your bananas or whatever by the pound if you want. People are overreacting to this so much.
How bloody much will this add to household bills, because some old farts don’t like the current century?
How many Tories to a hogshead again?
Yet another uselessly distracting proposal from a failed party, leading the country to dissolution and depression about past “glory” with reality smacking the population in the face. In the long run, it will be England alone with little going for it unless people wake up and find a functioning, alternative way to govern the country.
Y’all think your metric system is so fucking perfect but can you cut your Victoria sponge into three equal slices?
Thought as much…
The governments is stupid leave things as they are we all know what grams are now
The slow americanising of our country is so blatant. Be worried.
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Nobody sensible wants imperial only measures- only the morons who probably don’t understand either
If we are going back in time, we should bring back the old punishment system. i.e TAR &FEATHER, STOCKS etc.
> In Berkshire, the petition has so far been signed by three people in the Reading West constituency and four people in Reading East. Elsewhere in the county it has been signed by two people in Newbury, two in Wokingham and one in Maidenhead.
Local news excellence
At this point, the Government are just trolling everyone else to delight their racist, anti-woke, anti-intellectual base.
I just don’t get why anyone would want to use a less accurate and easily logicked system of measurement on purpose. Especially one most people from recent generations know eff all about because they weren’t taught imperial in school… Wonder why that is…
hold on I thought I read it was only going to be an option alongside metric measurements for businesses not mandatory
When they tell you that 1/32″ is nearly a millimetre and thousands of pounds worth of new double glazing doesn’t fit.
Never mind we can just go down the pub and admire the little crown on the glass while the poor homeowner has a tarp up over the massive hole in his house.
Look i know the idea of brexit was to revive our once “glorious” empire but they is nothing “glorious” about our shitty government.
We are supposed to be advancing forward as a nation and not running backwards in advancement until the only options left are thatch huts and a stick and stone.
If they bring latin back i’ll be happy but not everything else we moved on from all that for a reason.
I disagree. We should solely use Imperial measurements as law.
Just like how brexit was forced upon me and my rights were stripped away, we should force Imperial units upon the country. That way they might begin to understand just how fucking idiotic this entire thing was.
I genuinely thought this was just a throwaway stupid suggestion by Tories. But every week I see something about it apparently being a very serious move…
WHY?! You have a couple of generations who have been taught cm and litres etc. I don’t even know what the fuck a gallon is. Only know what a pint is because beer and just take a wild guess at what a yard is.
I don’t understand the Tory obsession with dragging everything backwards. Just because those fucks want to live in the past, doesn’t mean everyone else should have to suffer.
Calls for Government to stop this waste of time and money shitshow, and focus on the cost of living crisis.
I don’t know, I quite like the idea of arguing with a cop, my apologies I mean having an arjie with a bobby.
“No sir, I am adamant that I was going no faster than six dozen furlongs a fortnight, your instrumentation must be mistaken!”
(I think) a Guinea is 1 pound and 1 shilling (£1.05) and luxury goods were marked in guineas instead of pounds because they were that bit more expensive…
It’s completely insane to go back to shit like that.
Just helping shrinkflation and profit squeeze. Instead of a kilo of bacon you can get a 2lbs pack for the same price and loose 20 percent volume.. Next put 112 pennies back in the pound and reduce capital value by 12 percent. Only fkwits with lots of money will be happy with the hit.
I’ve seen a few people describe this policy as a ‘distraction’. That’s fairly dangerous.
It’s not a distraction at all, it’s a rather clever tactic to reduce Labour votes. Suggest a policy which makes no sense at all business wise and is of absolutely no interest to the left, and then when it’s panned by business leaders and independent bodies, claim publicly that it’s ‘Labour and the left wot dunnit’.
If they applied this imperial nonsense to medication people are likely to die as a direct consequence. Utterly ridiculous waste of legislative time when there are so many huge issues facing us.
I am fucking ashamed of this government. It’s a farce. It’s too unbelievable to have even been seen on Brasseye.
This is the best proof yet that Brexiteers are delusional.
Excellent, when do we get to exhume Victorias corpse and start pillaging India again?
Whats next, a consultation to scrap wifi and bring back dial up?
Food inflation on weighted items would jump 10% overnight, cause you bet they’d market 1lb & 2lb items the same price as 500g/1kg items.
Whaaay we’re going back to ergs and dynes, possibly the farthing 🤦♂️🤦♂️☹☹ . We should leave the imperial system to the USA, they’re dumb enough not know the difference.
Here’s the [Official Government Consultation](https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/choice-on-units-of-measurement-markings-and-sales), which (particularly if you’re a trader) may be marginally less likely to be ignored than the petition.
What cave dwelling idiot suggested bringing back imperial measurements . It has to be an Internet wind up
Here’s a link to the government consultation and feedback form. Make sure to let Jacob Fuck Balls know what you think:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/choice-on-units-of-measurement-markings-and-sales
Direct link to the survey here:
https://beisgovuk.citizenspace.com/opss/measurements/consultation/intro/
Really quite offensive that time and money are being wasted on this (even if it’s just looking into the possibility) when so many other things are wrong with country/economy right now. Probably the worlds best example of something not broken that doesn’t need fixing.
Next week: Calls for Government not to bring back Work-houses!
Whilst we’re at it, why not bring back old money? 20 pence to a shilling and 12 shillings to a pound, a pound and a shilling in a guinea, and a bunch of silly words for different groups of coins makes WAY more sense than the current decimal system!
No one wants imperial measurements back, it’s stupid. What’s the point
This government of arsehole wants us to be completely marginalized from the rest of Europe. Fücks sake.
As a Brit I can’t believe I’m saying this but the French did it better
It’s so depressing that this and leaving the ECHR are two government policies currently being touted. There are so many exciting and valuable things that could be done to modernise and improve this country and he we are focussing on measurements and deporting asylum sealers to Rwanda. What a disgrace
More people need to vote to get the tories out. That’s all the politics I belive in for now.
This is the most moronic idea so far.
There’s an imperial-only option?
What kind of twatburger entertained the idea of an imperial-only option in today’s world? And what kind of twatburger would entertain imposing an imperial-only option on the country?
Why do people act like the government wants to switch the entire country over imperial? The change is literally just making it so that it’s won’t be illegal to sell your bananas or whatever by the pound if you want. People are overreacting to this so much.
How bloody much will this add to household bills, because some old farts don’t like the current century?
How many Tories to a hogshead again?
Yet another uselessly distracting proposal from a failed party, leading the country to dissolution and depression about past “glory” with reality smacking the population in the face. In the long run, it will be England alone with little going for it unless people wake up and find a functioning, alternative way to govern the country.
Y’all think your metric system is so fucking perfect but can you cut your Victoria sponge into three equal slices?
Thought as much…
The governments is stupid leave things as they are we all know what grams are now
The slow americanising of our country is so blatant. Be worried.