Post brexit should Britain go back to Imperial units?

[buffaloboro]

One for the brexit voters- now we are less than one month away from "freedom" do you think the UK is not going the whole hog by continued use of the French system?
We need full control... Say no to litres

 

[bear66]

It could be the opposite. No more pints because the pubs have all closed down.

 

[r00fie1]

Bring back the Dunking Bucket.
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[buffaloboro]

Good point, the pro remain view could be that if we used litres they would still be flowing like a French farm's EU grant

 

[Colin Warnek]

I think if we give the EU an inch, they’ll take a mile.

 

[buffaloboro]

I think if we give the EU an inch, they’ll take a mile.

Brilliant

 

[Jostler]

I say get the abacus out.

 

[atypical_boro]

I think if we give the EU an inch, they’ll take a mile.

God that's good.

 

[Statto1]

I couldn't imagine doing engineering without the metric system, it would give me nightmares :LOL:

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Scotch eggs are going to be legal tender when we end the transition period.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

I couldn't imagine doing engineering without the metric system, it would give me nightmares :LOL:

My last job at KBR in the States was in imperial.

 

[Chris_Boro]

I couldn't imagine doing engineering without the metric system, it would give me nightmares :LOL:

Absolutely this, especially given the male tendency to exaggerate the length of an inch...

 

[buffaloboro]

My last job at KBR in the States was in imperial.

Yup, we still use it over here. Still don't know why a US pint is 16floz though and not 20...

 

[Same_as_before]

Wasn't there a major technical balls up because of the confusion? Some bridge not meeting.

 

[buffaloboro]

Wasn't there a major technical balls up because of the confusion? Some bridge not meeting.

Space shuttle?

 

[FartingGnome]

Speaking as one who took the very last O level in Physics in imperial I can categorically say it was a f^ckin nightmare, especially as we had to do metric as well (in the same papers).

Air travel is still an exotic mix of the two systems, though, height in feet, speed in knots, everything else metric Just as well it seems to work :)

 

[norfolkngood]

Yup, we still use it over here. Still don't know why a US pint is 16floz though and not 20...

So you can get a pint for a pound.
And it doesn't take as long to drink a stone of ale, or 0.9144 metres as we would call it.

 

[Lefty]

Was the 3 day week an imperial measurement?

 

[masquesmog]

Wasn't there a major technical balls up because of

Wasn't there a major technical balls up because of the confusion? Some bridge not meeting.

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Mars ....

 

[Way_Out_West]

Of course, in reality the EU allows Imperial units (we still have pints of beer and milk), fairly exclusively for the UK as other EU countries prefer metric.

However, now we haven't got any influence in the EU they may drop the allowance for joint measurements and insist on any product going into the EU be measured in metric only. Would UK producers who still export want to have one set of packaging for domestic and one for EU? An unnecessary cost I think.

Therefore an unintended consequence may be the disappearance of Imperial measurement of produce altogether from the UK.