On 18/08/2003 04:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I don't see why we have to sell beer (or anything else for that
matter) in integer multiples of any kind of "units" at all. Why can't we
just bring an arbitrarily sized, partially full, glass to the bar and say to
the guy at the bar: "Could you fill it up to about HERE please?".
It's a good system. It works for petrol pumps. Nobody in England even
NOTICED when petrol pumps went metric, because it made bugger all difference
to the reality of how things worked.
What exactly is wrong with the notion of filling a British pint glass with
beer and charging it to the till as zero point something litres?
Jill
Well, this would require fitting electronic meters (not metres! - two
quite different words in British English) to every beer tap. And I'm not
sure how well this would work in a bar packed with drunks fighting to be
served on a Saturday night...
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Peter Kirk
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