OT: UK to move back to imperial units?

** What absolute lunacy.

** How does this narcissistic prick hold a conversation with anyone who is not autistic ??

The answer is *very badly* and with nil comprehension.

** That is not a little bit, that is MASSIVE autism.

** Larkin simply has no idea what I am alluding to.

He only rationalises and bullshits to hide his disability from himself.

Totally evil person.

..... Phil

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Agreed, I don't.

I'm pretty happy and pretty successful. I have a beautiful smart wife and two dynamite daughters. They can be social for me while I design stuff. What's wrong with that? The world needs good electronics.

Not at all. I've done a lot of good. Most engineers make the world better. We reduce disorder. We make things work.

Where are the links to the lateral mosfets? To great novels and movies?

You snip the things that you don't want to deal with. That's a kind of disability itself.

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John Larkin

:)

Reminds me of a little-known French film from the early 70s, "Themroc".

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Tom Gardner

So "professionals" such as lawyers and doctors could charge in Guineas, thus upping their fees 5% :)

I expect you will find it goes back to common coinage, especially before national coins became the norm.

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Tom Gardner

When I was a kid pi*pi = g = 10, and that was allowed in physics and chemistry exams.

Time to resurrect my slipstick

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Tom Gardner

island case.

The very strong ferry industry lobbied to stay out of the EU customs union, so that ferries going between Sweden and Finland could make a

between Sweden and Finland.

The down side for small business is that if they want to sell something to continental Finland, this is export with all the paperwork involved.

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WHERE in the F did 4 come from?

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Robert Baer

Alison? I'd guess the answer to all three would be Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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It doesn't require a solution because there's no problem in the first place! The whole "Irish Backstop" issue (the prevention of a hard border arising between N. Ireland and the Republic) is a non-issue. Both parties have stated unequivocally that they don't want any border infrastructure erected and they are the only two parties who *could* put it up; there's no one else involved. The whole thing is an invention dreamed up by the EU in an attempt to thwart Brexit. May was happy to give the concept credence, because the conniving bitch was a Remainer and like all politicians, thought she somehow knew better than the 'plebs' who voted in the Referendum. She was in cahoots with the EU. Thank god she's out of it now.

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You would be hard pressed to find anyone in the UK under 30 who knew what a pound or ounce was these days. Even back in 1980 all engineering design software was metric - I recall we had to adopt it to function with Imperial units when the company was taken over by a US venture capitalist (arcane units support essential to enter the US market).

Miles, pints and gallons are still very much in daily use here.

Most other lengths, volumes and weights now are in m, L and kg. Some of them are slightly weird metric numbers that correspond to some previous imperial size give or take woodworking tolerances so 25mm vs 1" and

2.272L aka 4 pint milk containers for example.

Pints are really only used today for domestic beer and milk (and the metric equivalent is clearly displayed). Soft drinks come in metric

0.33L, 0.5L and 1.5L sizes. Continental beers are fully metric.

The UK pound was metricated in 1971. It wouldn't surprise me if this government legislated to go back to using guineas and groats.

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I hope Phil's in no rush to take you up on that. I'm still waiting patiently for my burger and fries from the previous millennium.

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Built-in commission. I think it began with the auction houses. So say you sold your Gainsborough masterpiece for a million guineas, the auction house passes on a million *pounds* to you and keeps the rest. One guinea is/was 21 shillings; a pound was 20.

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I think Jan is taking a swipe at some American schools whose "teachers" tell the kids that 2 plus 2 can equal 5 if they really want it to.

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It's all bullshit.... youy just have to look at the guy's name... Imperial / metric ??? How long is that thing over there...? Some will say 4 yards, some will say 4 Metres. Just depends in which environment one works. Metric (mostly) is here to stay in the UK even for us oldies that grew up not knowing what a millimeter was. Basically the bloke is a knob, like most of those in politics. What I hate most is ' let me be clear on this. They're never clear on anything!

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Boris appears to be a buffon a la Benny Hill but he's actually a smart thinker. It's his mouth that lets him down.'Engage brain before opening mouth' springs to mind.

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There needs to be a customs border somewhere, otherwise the Brit tons will be trucking toll-free their goods from England across to Northern Ireland, then into Republic of Ireland and then to the continental EU.

There would be several places for this border.

1.) Between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. This would be the most logical place. Unfortunately this would be the hardest to implement. Building a 6 m high border fence along the country side would hard to implement, ask Mr. Trump about the difficulties. Then put only a few border crossings between the areas. 2.) Put the customs border on ferries across the Irish Sea. N.I. would be part of EU customs zone. This would be the easiest to implement. 3.) If neither of those alternatives are possible to implement, the border would have to be between the Republic of Ireland and the continental EU countries. The EU countries would never allow this to happen to fellow EU country Ireland.

Pick your favorite.

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upsidedown

I'm sorry, but you've started off with a completely false premise here. That's not the way it works. There are no viable routes from the Irish Republic to mainland Europe except via England. The EU could try establishing a new ferry service direct, but that would add huge cost to good shipped *and* be impossible to make work in the period October to April due to the dangerous and unpredictable storms in the Irish Sea during that period. Geopolitically, the UK has the Republic by the balls

- we are trying to avoid being nasty but it will happen if there's no alternative. They're asking for it already IMV.

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And they've probably gone stale by now.

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Nigel is, though! God bless that man.

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If anything, you trolls are both voicy and persistent, I'll give you that.

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