tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post707628351762527456..comments2024-03-28T09:36:30.991+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Proposes To Undergo?David Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-43486692001545277832021-09-20T23:12:33.455+01:002021-09-20T23:12:33.455+01:00By all means, let them be able to. But they won...By all means, let them be able to. But they won't. They just won't.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-11926268353302245592021-09-20T22:56:54.557+01:002021-09-20T22:56:54.557+01:00You're right of course, people could have the ...You're right of course, people could have the right to do this No Metrics Here thing but almost nobody wanted to do it in 2001 so nobody would want to do it 25 years later once the law had changed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-31932545159374993232021-09-20T20:43:06.214+01:002021-09-20T20:43:06.214+01:00There is that junk history again. But anyway, in, ...There is that junk history again. But anyway, in, what, 2025 or thereabouts, literally no one is going to revert to selling things in imperial measures <i>alone</i>. Do not invest in imperial scales, in the extremely unlikely event that anyone started making them again.<br /><br />There are people who would compel a return to imperial, although bluntly they will soon be dead. But then, there are people who want to ban imperial units altogether, there are people who want to abolish British Summer Time, and there are people who want to have it all year. Some "characters" do not know when to stop. Thankfully, everyone else does know when to stop them.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-50194663128829283472021-09-20T20:22:10.900+01:002021-09-20T20:22:10.900+01:00As the BBC reported: “A 1994 EU directive was sign...As the BBC reported: “A 1994 EU directive was signed into British law and took effect in 2000, making it an offence to sell loose goods in pounds and ounces. Customers can ask for a pound of bananas but traders are obliged to weigh them in metric units. Thoburn had used imperial scales and was prosecuted.”<br /><br />Imperial will soon be back in mass circulation now that EU Directive is to be repealed not only because it’s Britain’s traditional measurement system but because it’s a bottom-up human system designed by ordinary traders, farmers and engineers for everyday usage and thus takes things we all have or use (feet, thumbs, cups, pints etc) as it’s reference points. The imperial system is more natural and human because it was made for human applications while the metric system was intended for scientific applications and never intended to measure people or buildings, food and drink. <br /><br />The Government is right to get rid of that totalitarian EU Directive and let’s have truly free markets where the customers choose. Instead of being forced to use the clunky top-down measurement system imposed by Emperor Napoleon and the Bolsheviks. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com