Well, the 1875 Treaty of the Meter replaced the French flag with some kind of
international flag. Pretty clearly, Customary waves the US flag, and Imperial
the Union Jack; that is especially true as the rest of the British Commonwealth
is more metricated than the UK itself.
On Sunday, September 19, 2021, 12:14:49 PM EDT, Stephen Humphreys
<[email protected]> wrote:
Suggest you listen to younger people - especially those who are active in
sports especially cricket and football
I think the measure repeal thing is not to get people to switch back - it’s
just for anything new wouldn’t have to avoid imperial.
And it’s not flag waving in the same way metric doesn’t have a french flag
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> On 19 Sep 2021, at 11:51 am, [email protected] wrote:
>
> First of all, how are imperial units used in the United Kingdom?
>
> Almost everything in the United Kingdom is done using metric units, apart
> from road signs (the specification for manufacturing and placement of roads
> signs is done using metric units), the serving of draught beer and cider in
> pubs (but beer and sider that is sold in bottles or cans have their sizes in
> millilitres while wine and spirits are sold in miliilitre sized units),
> newspapers usually quote personal weights and heights in imperial units, but
> the medical profession uses metic units, grandma's hand-me-dowm recipes are
> usually in imperial units, but recipes in newspapers and magazines aer in
> metric units (A British recipe will quote "250 grams of flour" rather than "2
> cups of flour"), milk in the supermarket is usually (but not always) sold in
> 1, 2, 4 or 6 pint containers, but farmers are paid by the litre.
>
> Last Friday a story appeared to have been "leaked" to The Times regarding
> possible "watering down" of rules regarding metrication. None of the other
> quality papers (The Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and The Independent)
> appeared to carry the story. The Times editorial that day was scathing about
> the proposal. The following day two letters were printed on the letters page,
> neither of which gave any support to the Government on the issue and today a
> cartoon appeared in the Sunday Times, again ridiculing both the prime
> minister and the possibility of reverting to imperial units (See
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2Fmorten-morland-sunday-times-cartoon-september-19-2021-sb9kw0f8z&data=04%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C0a470116b0aa43cb6c1608d97b955b51%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637676703683977433%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=ox7iwfriWPw3xnSp1PEHMYSFYPDRuoodlmr8zO4CNx0%3D&reserved=0).
>
> For the record, The Times often prints two reader's letters on any one topic
> - one in support of the topic and one against. Furthermore, in the run-up to
> an election, The Times columnists offer a variety of rules while the editor
> keeps silent until the last day before polling.
>
> Of the other papers, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express are populist
> one-sided right-wing papers that cannot be taken seriously while the biggest
> attraction in The Sun is the size of the Page 3 girl's breasts.
>
> The story is, I hope, a bit of sabre-rattling by a small minority.
>
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> Subject: [USMA 1797] No, the UK isn't leaving the metric system
>
> From Reddit:
>
> There's been a couple articles (well, headlines) posted about the UK moving
> away from metric, and while yeah that seems to be true (and I'm not too happy
> about it), it's only subtly.
>
> The actual proposal is to repeal EU rules that meant that all products must
> be sold in metric, allowing people to sell in imperial units if they choose.
> This is mostly about market stalls and stuff, some of which might want to
> (and yeah, it's a silly nationalist flag-waving thing), but there is no way
> that any larger retailers, supermarkets, chain shops or anything of the sort
> would stop using metric.
>
> I mean I have no idea how pounds, ounces, gallons etc. work, and apart from
> the few things we still do use here (like feet and inches for height, miles
> for road signs and speed), everyone under 30 uses the metric system.
> Do I think this is a stupid step backwards only designed to appeal to a
> subset of older patriotic Brits? Yep, absolutely, and it's an utter waste of
> time policy. Are we leaving the metric system and returning to the imperial
> one? Nope, that'd be ludicrous, it's not happening.
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