[HN Gopher] U.K. considering abandoning metric system
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       U.K. considering abandoning metric system
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-07-10 19:39 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Nextgrid wrote:
       | > _In June_ it announced a consultation into whether to return to
       | ancient imperial measurement units rather than the metric system
       | imposed for trade after it joined the EU.
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       | The current government has been in a bit of trouble recently and
       | this was a distraction trying to deflect media attention.
        
       | h2odragon wrote:
       | My car gets 2200 km per hogshead, and that the way we likes it!
        
         | iasay wrote:
         | I read that in Cletus' accent.
        
         | pixodaros wrote:
         | nay! Kilometers are the devious invention of the godless French
         | who killed their king! That should be 53,412 9/32 fathoms per
         | hogshead.
        
       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/Wxa0i
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | iasay wrote:
       | This is simply a way of confusing the shit out of people even
       | further in the middle of an inflation crisis while leveraging
       | "the old ways are better" bollocks.
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       | Also Derek Norman is a criminal and should be locked up.
        
       | drumhead wrote:
       | Shouldnt believe everything you read. This isnt going to happen.
       | They're just going to stop making it an offence to advertise in
       | imperial.
        
       | xor99 wrote:
       | Just totally irrelevant, managed decline. Unfortunately English
       | people appear to lap this kind of thing up in droves
        
         | ndsipa_pomu wrote:
         | Hold on a second - I'm English and I definitely don't lap this
         | kind of thing up at all.
         | 
         |  _checks rest of population_
         | 
         | Oh, ok. You might have a point there.
        
       | Olumde wrote:
       | Hopefully this initiative will pass away with Boris Johnson's
       | government.
        
       | Normille wrote:
       | From the makers of _' Back to the Future'_, the new Tory party
       | blockbuster: _' Forward to the Past'_.
        
       | mancerayder wrote:
       | I'm confused and surprised that people in the UK still use
       | "stone" for their bodyweight.
        
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