But seriously, division buy tenths is easier in the long run than the hodge podge of portions of the whole in Imperial measures. And hell, give me a liter of beer for the niggardly pint any day.

“I’m completely surrounded by no beer” – -Onslow (my British friends claim they have no Onslows in their midst).

Entelechy on September 12, 2007 at 2:22 PM

If Onslow did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Based on this can we conclude the U.S. and Britian accomodate the citizens better while the E.U. and everyone else accomodates burecracy?

The European Union has given up trying to force Britain to conform to metric measurement: Britain’s citizens are now free to buy their ale and milk by the pint and their bananas and potatoes by the pound, then measure the distance they drive back home…

Miss_Anthrope on September 12, 2007 at 2:01 PM

Thanks for the clarification! It’s been driving me crazy.

Pippin: “What’s that?”
Merry: “This, my friend, is a pint!”
Pippin: “It comes in pints?”
Merry: “Mmmm.”
Pippin: “I’m getting one!”
Sam: “You’ve had a whole half already!”

- The temperature of a horse’s anus is btw. 100-101, and the one of a cow’s 100-103 degrees and it is assumed to have been a reference for Herr Fahrenheit.

You’re making my point. You ought to be able to remember a nice round number to tell if your Democratic congressman is healthy.

While the libertarian in me says “to each’s own”, some facts about the measurement systems (don’t argue back, as this is just anecdotal, and not to convince any of you):

- It took me one hour to learn the metric system, for a life-time; I’m still learning the other one.
- For a while it was just Burma and the U.S. who hadn’t considered adopting the metric system, in the entire world (and Burma used skulls until not long ago to lure women into marrying the ‘prolific’ hunters).
- The temperature of a horse’s anus is btw. 100-101, and the one of a cow’s 100-103 degrees and it is assumed to have been a reference for Herr Fahrenheit.

And…Brussels is still centralized-dictatorial.

Say, does anyone here know what a “stone” equals? I keep thinking it’s 12lbs, but I’m not sure.

tickleddragon on September 12, 2007 at 12:19 PM

Quite sure 1 stone equals 14 pounds.

oldernslower on September 12, 2007 at 12:50

Yep, 14 pounds.

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Washington Irving

“Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.”
Don Marquis

“All right, brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me – so let’s just do this and I’ll get back to killing you with beer.”
Homer Simpson

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British (Imperial) pints are bigger than American pints.

tickleddragon on September 12, 2007 at 12:19 PM

Quite sure 1 stone equals 14 pounds.

The Eu is starting to look more and more like the Nationalist Socialist Party of Germany circa 1930′s

I get the point See-Dubya is making, but I think this is a bit of a reach.

With all of that said, a society or nation should voluntarily decide to switch to a different system of measurement, not be forced upon them as they were in EU.

Guess I’m lucky I was taught both and can do most of the conversions in my head

Canadian Imperialist Running Dog on September 12, 2007 at 10:57 AM

Ah,multi-culturalism. Hope this doesn’t apply to religious conversions as well.

Say, does anyone here know what a “stone” equals? I keep thinking it’s 12lbs, but I’m not sure.

Hands off beer measures.

Metric rebellion wins: A pint is still a pint in Britain.
- See-Dubya

This kid of a weird post, but actually pretty important in the greater scheme of things.

EU fining people for using the wrong measuring system is just plain stupid. And we all really need to be aware of this kind of nonsense. Just maybe we can stop it from happening here?