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It’s just the latest in the Government’s culture war against ‘leftie Europhiles’ and wokeness, complete waste of time
What is wrong with the UK .. let me guess they want to preserve 'identity' .. freaking conservatives
Dumb
I’m still gonna say a ‘kilo of coke’
Why?
Idiocracy
Don't do it.
That would be crazy. The metric system is great. And it make engineering calculations easier. We should all be using it.
There is a journalist who is extremely happy at being able to use the phrase 'inching away' in reference to a story about use of the metric system (although their hopes of somehow getting a double entendre out of 'imperial' were quickly dashed).
Not really. Imperial measurements haven't been taught in schools since the 1970s. People under 50 in the UK don't understand them. It's yet more culture war bs. Shops are struggling to get stock at all, so selling it in pounds or kilos is an irrelevance.
Looks like they’re trying to further build an us against them culture.
So, how many gallons and pounds are there when measuring a house? How many gallons and pounds did you drive today?
Yikes! Not a good sign of the future.
Oh bullshit
Why?
A mile is 5,280 ft. Wtf? A kilometer is 1,000 meters.
How very American.🧐
Back away
That's...dumb
“Mexit” ™️
I hate the imperial system. Please stick to common sense
To the U.K…..Don’t do it! Keep the rational and logical metric system. Just because Americans were too stupid to make the change in 1976, shouldn’t mean you go down the idiot road.
Why?!?
Dumb move.
Mistake!
Hell no!
Says the country that weighs people in stone lol. But seriously, this is a really weird change
How many pounds for a pound?
How American
Good.
There are only three countries that don’t use the metric system. THREE
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
So backwards … soon they’ll get back to monarchy those guys.
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