If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers then perhaps the EU pragmatically pondered an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The Brits would have kept the pint anyway.

Fuck Brussels.

Well it's a matter of what you are drinking isn't it. If it is something that is - as they used to say -"fucking near water" which describes american beer or if you are dinking a serious brew as one can do in ireland and england and the most of the E.U. it bloody does matter that you get your full pints worth. If you are religiously teatotal there is no hope for you or any system of measurement. cheers - happy days - up yours!

I don't see how anybody who uses units of measure like a fifth, furlong, c-cup, tablespoon, btu, or horsepower can find the metric system confusing.

Didn't we read about this years ago in 1984? Remember that England was fully metric in that book. 1/2 liter (litre?) of beer is not enough, but a liter is too much.

Barbaric systems of measurement should be scrapped. How many teaspoons in an ounce?

["Preserving our system of measurement, if it's not a logical system, is a bit like stagnating because you reject change."]




Kind of like having a conservative brain?

It's a comfort to me to know that some things will not change - important things such as measurement by old timey rules. It's all we have now.

Praise to the Force.

I think it's kind of dumb that we don't have more familiarity with the metric system in the U.S. I do remember learning about the metric system in elementary school in the 1970s. I've lived in metric countries, and it really is no big deal. And it is ridiculous that we are the only ones left, save Liberia and Myanmar, that haven't gone metric. On the other hand, I like difference. I don't want to see a McDonald's or a Bank of America on every corner, and I think it's good that we have a link to the past. Imperial measurements are fine and human-scale, yards, rods, feet, leagues, all that, and that's what they write about in literature. Changing elemental things distances us from our forebears in a bad way, I think.

And did you know the US went officially metric in 1975! Everyone who knows what a liter is , raise their hands!

Yeah, kind of what I thought. Only hospital and scientist use metric. Even our schools still focus on Feet , inches , gallons and pounds.

Metric is just a system invented after the French revolution. Some of it took root and some like the ten hour work day and ten day work week, thankfuly did not.

I prefer a pint over a half litre any day.

The two systems can peacefully coexist. Ever been to Canada? ;)

Although we officially adopted the metric system in the seventies, our historical ties with the UK and proximity to the US result in most Canadians being very familiar with both systems, even in Quebec.

As for the EU, I don't think they should cave in to the Brits. If they want to keep their imperial measurements, fine, but to try and impose them to the rest of Europe seems rather silly.

The EU must realize how impassioned the UK people are about their imperial measures; banning "the pint" would surely fuel the fires of a political seccession from the EU !
Of course, the USA still uses all imperial measures completely, and for those old enough to remember, the USA was given 10 years to adopt the metric system back in the 1970's, and the USA, business and people, 'sent the metric system off packing'.
Thank you, UK, we needed a lesson and a bit of grounding in true 'Democracy' where the people's demands are indeed heeded.

Too often the USA forgets that it was in fact UK democracy-lovers who gave blood and treasure to establish this USA nation and who wrote the US Constitution so expertly trying to preserve USA Democracy for all time.

God Bless the UK people and the God-inspired passion for the God-given rights of the Individual, who understand so well the meaning and reasoning of God helping Moses lead the Jews out of slavery to enable them to be spiritually free, beholden first and foremost to God alone. Thus, the Magna Carta at Runnymede, as well.

I'll take the human measurement,not the scientific one. A yard is the distance between my nose and my thumb. I can live at all temos between 0 and 100 degrees Farenheit. I cannot live at all temps between 0 and 100 degrees Celsius. When I am doing scientific type things,yes metric can , indeed be called easier,but who needs to scientific 24/7?

I go back and forth to the UK often...via either the Chunnel with or boat with my car.

England is believe it or not, much less modern than continental Europe.

ONly 40 km under the channel (24 miles). Brits in many ways are just as stupid as Americans.