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Our next unelected PM?

Captain_Swoop said:
The new Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has instructed all staff in his new office to use imperial measurements and refer to ‘non-titled males’ as ‘esquire’.

Issuing a style guide in the first week of his job, he also bans colleagues from using various words in correspondence with other MPs and the public.

Among the list of bizarre rules, he asks staff not to use the words “got”, “very” or “equal”.

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-07-26/itv-news-exclusive-jacob-rees-mogg-issues-style-guide-to-staff/
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I agree with him. (Apart from the 'Esq.' malarkey.)
 
Captain_Swoop said:
The new Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has instructed all staff in his new office to use imperial measurements and refer to ‘non-titled males’ as ‘esquire’.

Issuing a style guide in the first week of his job, he also bans colleagues from using various words in correspondence with other MPs and the public.

Among the list of bizarre rules, he asks staff not to use the words “got”, “very” or “equal”.

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-07-26/itv-news-exclusive-jacob-rees-mogg-issues-style-guide-to-staff/
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It's good that they have their priorities straight.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Why?
Why would you want 'imperial' measures brought back?

Why would you want all his ******** banning of words and archaic 'double spaces after full stops' crap?

Here is Stephen Fry on why his pedantic grammar is ********

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07f7m0m
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I've always used a double space after a full stop. Imperial measures are instinctively beautiful to my mathematical mind. More things can be done with base 60: there are more things under heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your decimal philosophy, Horatio.

When you see what they have done to co-ordinates for example, N50° 30' becomes N50.50 No, no, no!

I want 16oz to a pound and eight pints to a gallon. One knows immediately what a quarter pint of liquid is in cooking but to see it in 'mls' you have to fetch your measuring jug.

Bring it back! Bring it back!
 
Captain_Swoop said:
The new Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has instructed all staff in his new office to use imperial measurements and refer to ‘non-titled males’ as ‘esquire’.
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See my sig.

Have they got a date for the first Trump - Johnson love fest summit yet?
 
Vixen said:
I've always used a double space after a full stop. Imperial measures are instinctively beautiful to my mathematical mind. More things can be done with base 60: there are more things under heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your decimal philosophy, Horatio.

When you see what they have done to co-ordinates for example, N50° 30' becomes N50.50 No, no, no!

I want 16oz to a pound and eight pints to a gallon. One knows immediately what a quarter pint of liquid is in cooking but to see it in 'mls' you have to fetch your measuring jug.

Bring it back! Bring it back!
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Pining for the days of furlongs, rods, poles and perches.

What a silly post. I grew up with imperial measures (and pounds shillings and pence), but quickly got to understand and appreciate much simpler and logical decimal systems. I know how much 10ml is. More importantly so do kids who are brought up with them. Fogies who go around saying “no, no, no that’s half a fluid ounce” do not help at all.
 
lionking said:
Pining for the days of furlongs, rods, poles and perches.

What a silly post. I grew up with imperial measures (and pounds shillings and pence), but quickly got to understand and appreciate much simpler and logical decimal systems. I know how much 10ml is. More importantly so do kids who are brought up with them. Fogies who go around saying “no, no, no that’s half a fluid ounce” do not help at all.
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No decimal is not 'much simpler and logical' except insofar most people can count up to ten or use their fingers. You can see an immediate problem with base 10. Half is .5 - an odd number - which causes all sorts of problems when halved and halved again. You don't get that with base 12, 16, 24 or 60. Everything divides beautifully into them all.
 
Vixen said:
No decimal is not 'much simpler and logical' except insofar most people can count up to ten or use their fingers. You can see an immediate problem with base 10. Half is .5 - an odd number - which causes all sorts of problems when halved and halved again. You don't get that with base 12, 16, 24 or 60. Everything divides beautifully into them all.
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More nonsense. In real life people deal with measures like meter, kilometre and kilogram. They halve into 500cm, 500m and 500g. A bloody long way to get to .anything. And what is beautiful about half a fluid ounce?
 
Vixen said:
No decimal is not 'much simpler and logical' except insofar most people can count up to ten or use their fingers. You can see an immediate problem with base 10. Half is .5 - an odd number - which causes all sorts of problems when halved and halved again. You don't get that with base 12, 16, 24 or 60. Everything divides beautifully into them all.
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But the imperial system isn't base anything.

12 inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile.

20 fluid ounces in a pint, two pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon.

While dividing by four sometimes resulting in a simple fraction may be unideal, having seemingly random units with no predictable relationship becomes a pain in the ass far more frequently.
 
Vixen said:
I've always used a double space after a full stop. Imperial measures are instinctively beautiful to my mathematical mind. More things can be done with base 60: there are more things under heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your decimal philosophy, Horatio.

When you see what they have done to co-ordinates for example, N50° 30' becomes N50.50 No, no, no!

I want 16oz to a pound and eight pints to a gallon. One knows immediately what a quarter pint of liquid is in cooking but to see it in 'mls' you have to fetch your measuring jug.

Bring it back! Bring it back!
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i couldn't pick a quarter pint out of a line-up nor tell you how many mls it is. but i can divide 1000 by 4 because... im not an idiot.

imperial units are as great as dial up modems and VHS tapes
 
Vixen said:
I've always used a double space after a full stop. Imperial measures are instinctively beautiful to my mathematical mind. More things can be done with base 60: there are more things under heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your decimal philosophy, Horatio.

When you see what they have done to co-ordinates for example, N50° 30' becomes N50.50 No, no, no!

I want 16oz to a pound and eight pints to a gallon. One knows immediately what a quarter pint of liquid is in cooking but to see it in 'mls' you have to fetch your measuring jug.

Bring it back! Bring it back!
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And your car should read speed in furlongs per fortnight, I suppose.
 
Vixen said:
Imperial measures are instinctively beautiful to my mathematical mind. More things can be done with base 60:
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I assume you're trolling, but:

16 oz to a pound
14 lbs to a stone
8 stone to a cwt
20 cwt to a ton

And that's just for starters.

I especially don't understand his objection to 'got'. 'Have you got ...?' is traditional British English, whereas 'Do you have ...?' is more the American style. I would have thought he'd object to the latter. What a wanker the man is.
 
GlennB said:
Only candidate in the SNP election, ffs. It says exactly that in the wiki article you quoted. What is wrong with you?
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Perhaps English isn't your first language? That would explain your lack of reading comprehension. One of the Wiki articles I linked to carefully explains in simple English how the First Minister is, in practice, always the leader of the largest party.
 
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ceptimus said:
Perhaps English isn't your first language? That would explain your lack of reading comprehension. One of the Wiki articles I linked to carefully explains in simple English how the First Minister is, in practice, always the leader of the largest party.
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Except on the 3 occasions when they weren't.

You have also repeatedly insisted that Parliament elected Bojo, which they didn't.

You seem incapable of comprehending the differences between the two systems - presumably deliberately so because yet again it's simply partisan nonsense with you rather than actually considering the reality.

Even Bojo thinks the method Bojo got elected by is shonky. He just doesn't care when it benefits him. Because much like yourself his opinions are flexible when it suits and the definitions of democracy used mean 'getting your way'.
 
GlennB said:
I assume you're trolling, but:

16 oz to a pound
14 lbs to a stone
8 stone to a cwt
20 cwt to a ton

And that's just for starters.

I especially don't understand his objection to 'got'. 'Have you got ...?' is traditional British English, whereas 'Do you have ...?' is more the American style. I would have thought he'd object to the latter. What a wanker the man is.
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I have nothing against metric per se as it works well with currencies and temperature. I just feel that having everything metric is a kind of dumbing down. Stones and feet and inches work perfectly well.

There will come a time when 5:30am becomes 5.5am, or 6:15am becomes 6.25pm because idiots can't cope with base 60 and that would be a shame IMV.

I cannot bear hearing people say, 'Can I get...' when ordering food. It should be 'May I have...' as manners are important IMV.
 
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Vixen said:
I have nothing against metric per se as it works well with currencies and temperature. I just feel that having everything metric is a kind of dumbing down. Stones and feet and inches work perfectly well.

There will come a time when 5:30am becomes 5.5am, or 6:15am becomes 6.25pm because idiots can't cope with base 60 and that would be a shame IMV.

I cannot bear hearing people say, 'Can I get...' when ordering food. It should be 'May I have...' as manners are important IMV.
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Yes, you are trolling.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
The new Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has instructed all staff in his new office to use imperial measurements and refer to ‘non-titled males’ as ‘esquire’...
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I hear Cameron was also a fan of the hogshead.
 
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