Our next unelected PM?

[Lothian]

A metre is not far off a yard?

Lets hope you never have to build anything ever.

To be specific

A metre is not far off a yard. A human can easily picture and estimate a yard but is totally unable to do the same with a metre.

I suggest we dispense with this bollocks and get back to the topic.

Seems Boris united Wales yesterday, I wonder if he can do the same in Ireland today.

 

[Mojo]

Except knots are not based on kilometres. They are based on nautical miles.

As with many imperial measures they have come about from observing natural phenomena: in this case latitudes, longitudes and the meridian lines.

Do you know how the metre was originally defined?

 

[Vixen]

Do you know how the metre was originally defined?

I think you'll find I told you.

I have established that there is nothing wrong with the common imperial units still in use today.

I cannot bear Jacob Rees-Mogg. He is an odious toad. But he is right about keeping up standards. (Except for Fahrenheit and 'Esq.')

 

[The Don]

I think you'll find I told you.

I have established that there is nothing wrong with the common imperial units still in use today.

I cannot bear Jacob Rees-Mogg. He is an odious toad. But he is right about keeping up standards. (Except for Fahrenheit and 'Esq.')

You haven't established anything of the sort, you have merely claimed it and ignored any evidence to the contrary.

 

[Dave Rogers]

It's quite something isn't it that the ancients didn't need to measure distances from the equator to Paris and then divide it by one ten-millionth to come up with a metre.

I think you should look up the definition of a nautical mile, then consider how nonsensical your position becomes when you claim its fundamental superiority over the metre.

Dave

 

[Tolls]

Trolling, trolling, trolling...etc.

 

[Arcade22]

Well the UK still gets by perfectly well using miles, stones, feet and inches.

That it "won't be the end of the world" is not a good argument for forcing his subordinates to use non-standard units of measurement. In the end it just boils down to him wanting to role-play a snobbish gentleman from the 19th century, at the public's expense of course. Presumably he will now want to use a horse and carriage when traveling to and fro.

 

[Darat]

To be specific



A metre is not far off a yard. A human can easily picture and estimate a yard but is totally unable to do the same with a metre.



I suggest we dispense with this bollocks and get back to the topic.



Seems Boris united Wales yesterday, I wonder if he can do the same in Ireland today.

He does seem to be uniting everywhere....

 

[Lothian]

He does seem to be uniting everywhere....

Indeed. Come 1 November I suspect any remaining stragglers will be tidied up and the whole of the UK will hate him.

 

[ceptimus]

The protesters out on the streets booing during normal working hours are able to be there because they're not at work. No doubt some of them are retired, or shift workers, or on holiday, or self-employed, or on lunch breaks.

 

[Dave Rogers]

The protesters out on the streets booing during normal working hours are able to be there because they're not at work. No doubt some of them are retired, or shift workers, or on holiday, or self-employed, or on lunch breaks.

I see a viable political strategy here. If we can write off the opinions of the unemployed, then a no-deal Brexit that causes economic collapse and widespread unemployment will be of no consequence, because the protests of the people worst affected by it simply don't matter.

Dave

 

[The Don]

The protesters out on the streets booing during normal working hours are able to be there because they're not at work. No doubt some of them are retired, or shift workers, or on holiday, or self-employed, or on lunch breaks.

Or are in education - schools and universities are on a break
Or don't work that specific day - without being shift workers
Or are so concerned that they have taken time off work specifically to protest
Or a myriad other possibilities

The question is why this is important to you. Are you trying to suggest that nearly all of the protesters are jobless wasters who are only doing so because they think that continued EU membership will continue to let them suck on the public teat ?

Brexit support was highest in areas of high unemployment which tends to indicate that the unemployed tend to be Leave supporters (which would be consistent with the immigrants taking our jobs/houses/public services narrative deployed by the Leave campaign).

 

[GlennB]

The protesters out on the streets booing during normal working hours are able to be there because they're not at work. No doubt some of them are retired, or shift workers, or on holiday, or self-employed, or on lunch breaks.

What do you reckon of the rest, ceptimus? Unwashed commie layabouts who could do with a good dose of national service?

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Now?

That's seriously high truth to words ratio.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

That it "won't be the end of the world" is not a good argument for forcing his subordinates to use non-standard units of measurement. In the end it just boils down to him wanting to role-play a snobbish gentleman from the 19th century, at the public's expense of course. Presumably he will now want to use a horse and carriage when traveling to and fro.

"Won't be the end of the World" isn't that the official slogan of Brexit now that all the people who said we'd get a much better deal than the deal we already had are denying they said anything of the sort?

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Or are in education - schools and universities are on a break
Or don't work that specific day - without being shift workers
Or are so concerned that they have taken time off work specifically to protest
Or a myriad other possibilities

The question is why this is important to you. Are you trying to suggest that nearly all of the protesters are jobless wasters who are only doing so because they think that continued EU membership will continue to let them suck on the public teat ?

Brexit support was highest in areas of high unemployment which tends to indicate that the unemployed tend to be Leave supporters (which would be consistent with the immigrants taking our jobs/houses/public services narrative deployed by the Leave campaign).

Maybe they're executives, company owners or company owner's kids, siblings or in-laws? They always seemed to be able to take time off whenever they fancied it.

 

[Dave Rogers]

"Won't be the end of the World" isn't that the official slogan of Brexit now that all the people who said we'd get a much better deal than the deal we already had are denying they said anything of the sort?

Yes, I believe it's recently superseded "Won't be as bad as the Blitz." We're all eagerly waiting to see where they go next.

Dave

 

[The Don]

Yes, I believe it's recently superseded "Won't be as bad as the Blitz." We're all eagerly waiting to see where they go next.

Dave

I think I already said that eventually the Leave campaign will claim the lack of post-Brexit bread riots and other wide scale domestic unrest will be classed as a big win for Brexit.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Yes, I believe it's recently superseded "Won't be as bad as the Blitz." We're all eagerly waiting to see where they go next.

Dave

Yes, the Blitz analogy has helped me realise that the 'sunlit uplands' that were promised refers to evacuating our children to the countryside.

Where presumably they can help bring in the harvest since we won't have our usual seasonal agricultural workers.

 

[Thor 2]

Well the UK still gets by perfectly well using miles, stones, feet and inches.

No, it doesn't. Most engineering in the UK is done to metric units and standards. Yesterday I bought a set of pans; 2 litre, 3 litre, 5 litre and 10 litre. My bike uses metric nuts, bolts and spanners even though it was manufactured in Kew. We buy fuel in litres (largely because, if the price were still expressed as per gallon, there'd be riots, but that's another story). Most food is sold by the gram and kilogram. Most of my furniture is assembled using 4mm and 5mm Allen keys. And if you think Brexit will change any of that, you're living in the fantasy world that the ERG's conned everyone into believing in.

Dave

Vixen is confused I suspect. Knots were compared to miles before and now miles per hour, and so on. I can sympathise however, as I have experienced this confusion myself, many years ago.

As I understand it, even in the USA, the metric system is used in science and serious engineering circles.

Has Boris made some comment on this subject, to prompt all this discussion? A serious derailment otherwise, that I fear I have been partly responsible for.