Cont: Brexit XII

[Guybrush Threepwood]

"A pint of water weighs a pound-and-a-quarter"!

I'm surprised no Ukian has brought up the indoctrination rhymes from the 70s like:
A litre of water's a pint and three quarters.

 

[Andy_Ross]

I grew up in the 70s. Never heard that

 

[The Don]

I'm surprised no Ukian has brought up the indoctrination rhymes from the 70s like:
A litre of water's a pint and three quarters.

Along with "two and a quarter pounds of jam, weighs about a kilogramme" and "a metre measures three foot three, it's longer than a yard you see".

 

[Trebuchet]

Along with "two and a quarter pounds of jam, weighs about a kilogramme" and "a metre measures three foot three, it's longer than a yard you see".

Did you mean a kilogram and a meter? The latter of which is about three feet three and three-eighths!

 

[Andy_Ross]

According to the Telegraph this year is the

'Beginning of the end’ for EU as we know it after surge in hard-Right support.

Euro 2024 elections seen as a battle to end Brussels overreach into national sovereignty

 

[Norman Alexander]

Probably a combination of the following:
1) Rejoining the EU won't fix the issues most voters consider the most urgent, ie. the cost of living crisis, public services being worn down, etc.
2) Too many voters still think that even if Brexit was a disaster, the will of the majority should be respected.
3) At the moment it's just not a fight worth having.

As long as there is an agreement struck between the UK and the EU to agree on joint immigration and travel processes, agreed currency exchange procedures, much more streamlined border management, unified health and education standards, and some form of multinational citizenship recognition, the Raving Brexiteers League of Faragists can sleep easy knowing Brexit has been a success.

 

[zooterkin]

Not to mention that it was the English that invented the 75cl bottle, when they owned Bordeaux.6x75cl = 1 gallon.That's why wine is still sold in cartons of 6 in France today.

^*Citation required.

England owned Bordeaux from 1152 to 1453.

Here you go

https://bernard-magrez.com/en/actua... found a unit of,has become the European norm.

This measure was actually chosen in the 19th century by Bordeaux growers and Bordeaux’s British wine merchant houses, at a time when the United Kingdom was the leading importer of French wines.

 

[zooterkin]

Along with "two and a quarter pounds of jam, weighs about a kilogramme" and "a metre measures three foot three, it's longer than a yard you see".

One that occurred to me during the Olympic rowing one year:
2ks of water's a mile and a quarter.

 

[Mongrel]

Found this at the weekend and found it funny, seemed appropriate here

 

[Darat]

Found this at the weekend and found it funny, seemed appropriate here

All seems perfectly sensible to me - he could have added in shoe sizes.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

I'm surprised no Ukian has brought up the indoctrination rhymes from the 70s like:
A litre of water's a pint and three quarters.

Along with "two and a quarter pounds of jam, weighs about a kilogramme" and "a metre measures three foot three, it's longer than a yard you see".

The influence of the evil EUSSR right there! ;P

 

[jimbob]

20 fl oz to the pint (it's on the measuring jug I use for cooking)
2 pints to the quart
4 quarts to the gallon (hence the name, I suspect) so 8 pints to the gallon

Won't be 70 for a while yet.

Of course that's the difference between a UK and US gallon.

a UK gallon of water weighs 10 lbs.

 

[Andy_Ross]

I never heard any of those 'metrication' rhymes.
This thread is the first place I have seen them. I was at school in the 60s and 70s, they never came up anywhere.

 

[Darat]

I never heard any of those 'metrication' rhymes.
This thread is the first place I have seen them. I was at school in the 60s and 70s, they never came up anywhere.

I had never heard of them before this thread.

 

[malbui]

I never heard any of those 'metrication' rhymes.
This thread is the first place I have seen them. I was at school in the 60s and 70s, they never came up anywhere.

Completely new to me as well. I started school in January 1974. We learned imperial and metric side by side.

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

I never heard any of those 'metrication' rhymes.
This thread is the first place I have seen them. I was at school in the 60s and 70s, they never came up anywhere.

I had never heard of them before this thread.

Completely new to me as well. I started school in January 1974. We learned imperial and metric side by side.

Interesting, they were definitely all over the school I was at in the mid 70s. At least The Don has confirmed they weren't just a figment of my imagination. The one I quoted and the two he added are the only ones I remember.

 

[Wudang]

I started school in 63. I remember the "2 and a quarter pounds of jam* but not the foggiest where I heard it.

 

[malbui]

As a former academic I was delighted to see that the UK has today officially joined the Horizon and Copernicus programmes. Such a pity they were blocked from access for so long.

 

[Trebuchet]

Now we need to stop counting on our fingers and get rid of the stupid powers of ten! Powers of two make far more sense, just ask any computer programmer!

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Interesting, they were definitely all over the school I was at in the mid 70s. At least The Don has confirmed they weren't just a figment of my imagination. The one I quoted and the two he added are the only ones I remember.

I think it's going to depend on how old you were at the time, I remember playing/learning with 1cm plastic blocks that locked together in the mid 70s (I'm 1971 vintage, a great year) but not really doing imperial, maybe a bit of feet & inches but not much beyond that. If on the other hand you were a little bit older and already familiar with metric it makes absolute sense to be learning coversions, but if you've been taught metric from the start...