JFKvsNixon Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Aye, sadly our EU masters have the upper hand on us. WHY should the UK need a derogation. We were GREAT Britain, these days we are subservient to the EU. Angel. You misunderstand, on purpose maybe, the meaning of the word Great in Great Britain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 GB is not the same as UK, anyway. The latter includes Northern Ireland. Just thought that you'd like to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 I don't know of any other country in the world that is so ridiculously insular that it refuses to adopt an infinitely better and simpler system for no other reason than a Frenchman invented it. America . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buck Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 So, if they'd had the sense to go through with it, this argument would have been laid to rest before any of us were born, and we wouldn't have had to waste so much time at school learning a whole plethora of completely stupid units and trying to memorise how many of them made which. I don't even know what a kilohenry is, but I know there are 1,000 of them in a megahenry. Who can tell me, offhand, how many gills are in a gallon, or how many roods in an acre? I don't know of any other country in the world that is so ridiculously insular that it refuses to adopt an infinitely better and simpler system for no other reason than a Frenchman invented it. America is happy enough to continue using miles, yards and feet within its borders. Its aviation altitudes are always in feet too, more precise than the meter because it is smaller. We buy land in acres, but laughed at the British for taking so long to using metric for money. When I worked in the paper industry, amounts were measured in pounds per ream. The only problem was that the ream wasn't always the same size depending on the basic weight of the sheet. I spent a long time convincing the powers that be to change the standard to grams per meter squared, regardless of basis weight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 I don't know of any other country in the world that is so ridiculously insular GB is an island- hence it's insular. Don't lose any sleep over this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernStar Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Something is just right about pints, anything else is just not cricket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 When I worked in the paper industry, amounts were measured in pounds per ream. The only problm was that the ream wasn't always the same size depending on the basic weigh of the sheet. I spent a long time convincing the powers that be to change the standard to grams per meter squared. Yes. Imperial ream = 480 sheets. Metric 'ream'= 500 sheets. But neither has any relevance to gsm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 Er, a henry is a cylinder vacuum cleaner, isn't it? Who wants a thousand of 'em, let alone a million? Ahem. Ahem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddycoffee Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 The trouble with drinking a litre of beer is that many types of beer go flat before you get to the bottom of the drink. Unless you drink twice as fast it doesn't taste as good. Indeed Newcastle Brown tastes sublime out of a half glass topped up from the bottle. If you pour the whole bottle into a pint it tastes flat and horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELFIRE1 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 You misunderstand, on purpose maybe, the meaning of the word Great in Great Britain. I am not the sharpest tool in the box these days, could you explain please. Angel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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