The EU has given up trying to force the UK to adopt the metric measures of litres etc.
They have very kindly 
permitted us to continue using miles, pints and pounds as units of measurement.
Well thank you very fucking much oh mighty European Commission and kiss my wrinkled arse cheeks for good luck
Now all we need do is get out of the EU and then normal service can be resumed
You’ll take my 568 ml when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!
Does this make it legal to weigh and sell stuff in stores by the pound again?
Fine, but just remember when you’re driving in the Republic Of Ireland the speed limits are in K/PH! 
Man, you Brits really are the Quebec of Europe!
(Half in and half out…)
Yep, and beer in pints 
To clarify a bit:
Before the EU gave up on us, stores had to show the weights in metric but were permitted to show the equivalent in imperial, but the latter had to be in smaller print than metric.
This has now been well and truly fucked off 
a store can show imperial inBIG print and it’s up to them whether or not they show metric in tiny print
I think we should start a movement (underground to start off with ,go overt later on ) where firstly we get English as the ONLY working language for the E.U.,then force the other member nations to display all measurments in Imperial as well as metric.
After theyve got used to this we compel them to abandon the metric system and use ONLY Imperial measurments.
Then make the Union Flag the flag of all Europe ,move the European Parliament to London and ditch the European Human Rights act( though I suspect the latter would cause widespread upset in Britain) .
And then make all the "Johnny Foreigners " kiss the feet of the Queen.
Basically I think its a pretty sound plan though I’ll own up to one or two teething problems and no doubt they’ll be a small minority of Europeans who’ll bitch about it !
But I think most of them will go along with it quite enthusiastically ,particulary our French neighbours .
While we’re at it we could have a mass migration of British workers to Eastern Europe where we could all undercut the local working wages or take full advantage of their benefits system even to the extent of claiming tax credits for children we have allegedly left back in our home country.
So hows about a few posts from our sadly non Brit E.C. posters?
I’ll bet you cant wait to meet up with me IRL to thank me for my idea.
I’m all for that L4L but you forgot…
Ye tried taking over the world before, yiz failed, get over it.
We managed 3/4s of it, better luck next time
I don’t mind that we haven’t gone over to metric just yet. Bear in mind that metric has been taught in schools since the 1970s. It’s simpler to wait ten or twenty years and let all the moaning minnies die out and then just convert naturally.
Does this mean that the cursed French will have to drive on the left from now on?
No, this is wrong wrong wrong. What was going to happen in 2009 was that it would become illegal to even mention imperial measurements on labels: all weights, volumes etc (except pints for milk and beer) would have to be metric-only.
All that has happened is that shopkeepers will now be allowed to continue quoting both systems. But the imperial labelling must not be more prominent than the metric, and imperial-only labelling will still be banned. (link)
Pints in pubs, and miles on signposts, have now been given an indefinite reprieve, but to be honest they were never in serious danger anyhow despite EU “targets” for their phasing-out.
In other words, a media mountain out of a metric molehill.
Fuckin’ A.
As a child of the 80s I’m almost totally metric-orientated.
Sooner we get a couple of nice cold winters to kill off you old codgers the better. Then we can get back to a sensible form of measurement - one that does exactly what it says on the tin (e.g. kilogrammes and grammes) rather than requiring some arcane fucking knowledge of how many fingers there are in a bushel or how many firkins there are in a humperdink.
Pints are alright though. Pints can stay.
Strange, I still hear teenagers even now discussing weight in pounds, height in feet and inches and so on. I certainly think that way, at least in terms of my own height and weight, despite being schooled almost entirely in metric. I’s have to stop and work out how tall I am in cm, even though the conversion (1in = 2.54cm) is burnt on my brain. Weight, I know both in stone/lb and in kg, but I still think in stone first of all. I was born in 1977, btw.
Also, see my post above – this thread is based almost entirely on misinformation.
What are all you wankers on about?
Its a learn-by-rote thing.
I can tell you how tall i am in feet and inches and i can tell you how much i weigh in stones, because that’s what people expect me to tell it to them in. If i need to estimate anything or am measuring something for my own benefit (Stop that! i know what you’re all thinking!) i have to do it in metric, because that’s what i was taught in school. Then, if necessary, i convert it back into old-people speak.
Going on testimony from the people around me at work, it seems the same is true for most of us brat-packers - we do it because we get funny looks otherwise, rather than because its easier (and in fact, pleasantly, we’ve now discovered we don’t have to do it in the office! ).
Couldn’t speak for the late 90s kids though - god knows what they were taught (practically nothing if the Daily Mail is to be believed).
Actually, i already knew this as well, but i figured as long as Chowder and co. were crowing on about this, they wouldn’t be harping on about how the EU killed the traditional English sausage and made us all eat straight bananas
Those masturbaters in Brussels is what
Colophon I knew this, but gimme a break willya
Anyways, I still ask for a pound of bacon and fuck your metric measures
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that’s the way I likes it!
Even a simple one-eighth of it would be enough. Besides, who ever heard of counting in factors of ten? It’s a commie plot, I tells ya!
They can take my pounds and ounces when they pry them from my sixteen cold, dead fingers…