British firms could be allowed to use Imperial measures after Brexit

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How? The British people were alright with it for centuries.
Actually the British people and those who copied them struggled with it for centuries.

Where's your evidence for this?

As for the BS about British scientists switching to imperial measures that is something that would make all British research useless so far as the rest of the world is concerned. They might as well publish in Esperanto.

Why would publishing scientific research in Imperial measures, Esperanto or Finnish make it useless?

Because no one else uses it perhaps?

More people use Imperial measures than use the Finnish language so, going off your reckoning, Finnish is outmoded.

The 100 pence pound, eh? So you admit that a system based on ten is superior.

A system based on ten is inferior. Imperial uses divisions of eights and twelves and sixteens, which can he divided into bigger equal portions than ten. Ten can only be divided equally into twos and fives, whereas twelve can be divided equally into twos, threes, fours and sixes. The French, for all their faults, recognise this and that's why they pack wine bottles in boxes of twelve rather than ten.

Good - I still don't know what you weigh. Do you also measure your height in cubits?

I measure my height in feet and inches. I'm about 5ft 8in.

Urdu? That is a non-sequitur. No one is suggesting learning Urdu. We're talking about going back to a system of measurement that was devised in the Middle Ages.

As opposed to what? A system of measurement devised in the 18th Century.

When a system of measurement was devised is immaterial, just as it's immaterial when a system of governance was devised or when a genre of music was devised.

No idea what people ask for in pubs - I don't go into them as I don't drink. People who I go to restaurants with who want to drink usually as for "A beer" without mentioning any volume. I expect the same thing happens in bars.

Pints are ordered in Canadian bars.

It is the reason why no one uses Imperial for scientific studies, manufacturing, or trade.

That's not true.

BTW when Finns communicate with the rest of the world I'm betting they use English - Why? Because it is a language used worldwide just as metric is used worldwide.

So let's abolish Finnish. Hardly anybody uses it; it makes no sense; and it's obsolete, having been created hundreds of years ago.

You also don't seem to understand how modern manufacturing, science, or trade works - everything is in S.I. units.

That's just NOT true and, outside the EU, there will be NOTHING stopping British companies and scientists using good old Imperial measures.

As I said if you really want to push Britain farther back into insignificance go ahead and switch back. Somehow, however, I suspect it is not going to happen just to satisfy a few neo-luddites.

Fifteen years ago the British were told they would become insignificant if we didn't drop the pound and adopt the euro. The euro was to be the start of something beautiful, according to the europhiles. How wrong they were.

Right, and how many of those ex-colonies still use Imperial? I am guessing not one. Imperial has faded as a unit of measurement just as so many other systems have disappeared as well.

The British built the biggest empire in history using Imperial. The Yanks landed man on the Moon using it.

Imperial is not coming back.

It is in Britain, once we've left the EU and it no longer tries to ram its inefficient, foreign measures down our throats. Imperial is the future in an independent Britain. The BBC will also be banned from its ridiculous carry on of using foreign measures on its news, weather and documentaries.

 

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It is in Britain, once we've left the EU and it no longer tries to ram its inefficient, foreign measures down our throats. Imperial is the future in an independent Britain. The BBC will also be banned from its ridiculous carry on of using foreign measures on its news, weather and documentaries.