[USMA:30554] Re: Latest NEWS

[David King]

I was in a restaurant in London this evening, near Trafalgar Square, 
most of the staff I think were foreign students, and there was one man 
at the next table who wanted a pint of shandy. The waitress, who was not 
English, did not understand what shandy was, so he explained, then when 
she brought it out, it was in a small glass, so he asked again for a 
pint. I think she had to go and ask someone what a pint was.
As it was a restaurant, and not a pub, I think they could not have sold 
any beer or beer shandy in pints, the glass they eventually gave him 
looked about half a litre or so in size. He was happy eventually, but I 
think that if he had asked for half a litre then the waitress would have 
had no difficulty in understanding the size of glass he required. If 
only the working classes would get over there obesession with the pint 
and we could have all beer in the UK in metric. At present all beer sold 
in bottles or cans is metric only, and the beers listed on the menu were 
all in metric sizes.

David King
Michael-O wrote:
David King wrote:
Bwma are very proud of that statistic. however, the question was, 
should the UK go TOTALLY metric? And if 93% said no, then they are 
not necessarily opposed to the metric system, as they may be people 
who want metric in many things but want to keep pints of beer.

I don't get it, what's so special about that stupid pint?
it's absolutely obsolete, why are still ppl clinging to this?
bye