tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post5127872208174618435..comments2024-03-28T23:49:28.343+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Weighed and MeasuredDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-75574139885834281312021-09-17T22:25:38.574+01:002021-09-17T22:25:38.574+01:00Wilkins. That was it. Cromwell's brother-in-la...Wilkins. That was it. Cromwell's brother-in-law, but a very successful player of the game.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-65130252648138183442021-09-17T22:17:26.041+01:002021-09-17T22:17:26.041+01:00The Abbé Mouton got the idea for the metric system...The Abbé Mouton got the idea for the metric system from John Wilkins, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; Dean of Ripon; and Lord Bishop of Chester. It's the most English thing in the world, used by the entire Commonwealth, and legal in Britain since only 24 years after the creation of the imperial system which forcibly replaced a whole array of customary units not yet 200 years ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-54516389376966448242021-09-17T21:58:09.892+01:002021-09-17T21:58:09.892+01:00All that is going to happen is that traders are go...All that is going to happen is that traders are going to be permitted to use imperial measures again. A very few will, and good luck to them. But that will be all.<br /><br />As much as anything else, there is no suggestion that they are going to be taught in schools. Taught by whom? But how deliciously British, that they have survived in daily life despite the teaching of something else instead for 50 years. No other society could sustain that.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-53770931490862894532021-09-17T21:49:49.092+01:002021-09-17T21:49:49.092+01:00The UK agreed to adopt the metric system when it j...The UK agreed to adopt the metric system when it joined the International Organisation of Legal Metrology (OIML) in 1856. Metric measures have been lawful in the UK since 1875. Only Myanmar still uses imperial measures, the American ones are slightly different. So much for ‘Global Britain’.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-1652166735337476882021-09-17T19:23:26.307+01:002021-09-17T19:23:26.307+01:00And the supermarkets fund the Conservative Party.And the supermarkets fund the Conservative Party.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-45975969388980386872021-09-17T19:13:39.118+01:002021-09-17T19:13:39.118+01:00You're right, the supermarkets aren't goin...You're right, the supermarkets aren't going to go for this, most people won't even notice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com