Super-Twat

[Mr Larrington]

It has been argued that Bloody Stupid Johnson's drinking habits are taking the Churchill fanboïsm a little too far.

[Pedaldog.]

I'm more concerned with BSJ's Breathing habit!

[fd3]

^POTD?

[citoyen]

Anyone who thinks bringing back imperial measures is a good idea, whatever their motive.

[ElyDave]

half of the YOOF on my team will probably have no idea what an imperial measure is, other than a pint, some of them were born after I left university FFS

[Beardy]

half of the YOOF on my team will probably have no idea what an imperial measure is, other than a pint, some of them were born after I left university FFS

My B-in-L worked in the oil industry (now retired) and due to more specialised degrees being offered, he was often in the position where he was interviewing those youngsters for jobs he would not be qualified to apply for.

[ian]

Anyone who thinks bringing back imperial measures is a good idea, whatever their motive.

This, I suspect, wins the thread.

And their motive is usually the standard fodder for this thread.

[ian]

Reminds me actually, yesterday while hiding the pile of Daily Mails (better known as the Hitler Digest in these parts) under the Croydon Advertiser I noted the headline was about the glory of overthrowing EU tyranny by point crown signs back on pint glasses. Done by Boris, of course.

I don't actually know what this symbol means, maybe the Queen spit shines every glass, though I expect they're made in France anyway*.

*I can't have been the only small child to have up-tipped his glass of school-issued drink to see the glass was made in France and to be filled with vague exoticism, that there might be a world beyond those mounds of coal spill. OK, I possibly was.

[andrewc]

*I can't have been the only small child to have up-tipped his glass of school-issued drink to see the glass was made in France and to be filled with vague exoticism, that there might be a world beyond those mounds of coal spill. OK, I possibly was.

Duralex ? https://www.divertimenti.co.uk/collections/duralex   I think these were the ones we had from early 70's onwards.   Are they still in use, or have they been replaced by disposable plastic that doesn't need to be washed & stacked ?

[Jurek]

*I can't have been the only small child to have up-tipped his glass of school-issued drink to see the glass was made in France and to be filled with vague exoticism, that there might be a world beyond those mounds of coal spill. OK, I possibly was.

Duralex ? https://www.divertimenti.co.uk/collections/duralex   I think these were the ones we had from early 70's onwards.   Are they still in use, or have they been replaced by disposable plastic that doesn't need to be washed & stacked ?

I have one atop my carafe across the table from me, and a further five of them at home.

[citoyen]

Anyone who thinks bringing back imperial measures is a good idea, whatever their motive.

This, I suspect, wins the thread.

And their motive is usually the standard fodder for this thread.

Several wise people on the Twitters have pointed out that "bringing back" imperial measures is a disingenuous policy anyway, given that they've never really gone away.

[Basil]

*I can't have been the only small child to have up-tipped his glass of school-issued drink to see the glass was made in France and to be filled with vague exoticism, that there might be a world beyond those mounds of coal spill. OK, I possibly was.

Definitely not the only one Ian.  I remember noting that at school lunchtime.
Then we had lots of schòolboy sniggering because it nearly said Durex.

[ian]

Anyone who thinks bringing back imperial measures is a good idea, whatever their motive.

This, I suspect, wins the thread.

And their motive is usually the standard fodder for this thread.

Several wise people on the Twitters have pointed out that "bringing back" imperial measures is a disingenuous policy anyway, given that they've never really gone away.

I mentioned that on the other thread, I'm not supremely bothered by whatever units for casual use, but obviously metric is a lot more sensible in many more applied cases.

But 'bringing them back' is the same shit as crowns on pint glasses (yes, pints, somehow they escaped EU tyranny).

[ian]

*I can't have been the only small child to have up-tipped his glass of school-issued drink to see the glass was made in France and to be filled with vague exoticism, that there might be a world beyond those mounds of coal spill. OK, I possibly was.

Definitely not the only one Ian.  I remember noting that at school lunchtime.
Then we had lots of schòolboy sniggering because it nearly said Durex.

Those were the ones, every glass at every school I went to had French glasses. We had the round ones. You could throw them at someone's head and they bounce off and not break.

For a good portion of my life, I assumed Durex was a male hair care product.

[Mr Larrington]

In Captain Cook's Mistake it's the local equivalent of Sellotape^TM.

[ian]

I think it was about age twelve that we assembled enough money to dare Grant Hodgkins to dash into the male loos at the Moon & Stars and buy a packet of Durex from the vending machine that legend had it was located in there. So I presume around that age I realised that they were sold in the barbers not because they were a hair care product and men didn't only wash their hair at the weekend, sir.

Of course, having obtained a packet of the fabled 'rubber johnnies' cue a half dozen small boys standing around in a pub car park thinking 'now what?' – girls were still a distant and mysterious commodity. I suspect they passed their use-by date unscathed or got flerted at someone's head.

[Redlight]

In Captain Cook's Mistake it's the local equivalent of Sellotape^TM.

not as effective and a bugger to get off if you have gone for the maximum protection application.

[rafletcher]

Britain adopted the metric system in 1965.  We joined the EU in 1973.

[citoyen]

Britain adopted the metric system in 1965.  We joined the EU in 1973.

And metric has been the primary system taught in schools since 1974, which fucked up the whole world for people of my generation - taught one thing at school, had to deal with another thing in real life...

[TheLurker]

And metric has been the primary system taught in schools since 1974, which fucked up the whole world for people of my generation - taught one thing at school, had to deal with another thing in real life...

Ahem. I think you will find it was your parents who fucked you up, not the metric system. 

[citoyen]

And metric has been the primary system taught in schools since 1974, which fucked up the whole world for people of my generation - taught one thing at school, had to deal with another thing in real life...

Ahem. I think you will find it was your parents who fucked you up, not the metric system. 

FPWM!

[rafletcher]

Britain adopted the metric system in 1965.  We joined the EU in 1973.

And metric has been the primary system taught in schools since 1974, which fucked up the whole world for people of my generation - taught one thing at school, had to deal with another thing in real life...

Given that I’m 1957 vintage I feel qualified to comment - didn’t bother me in the slightest - and I didn’t get to grapple with ergs and therms to boot.

[Feanor]

And metric has been the primary system taught in schools since 1974, which fucked up the whole world for people of my generation - taught one thing at school, had to deal with another thing in real life...

Ahem. I think you will find it was your parents who fucked you up, not the metric system. 

They may not mean to, but they do.   
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

[ian]

Entirely unsurprisingly, the 'crown' thing on pint glasses turns out to be an entire lie too, so say the manufacturers of said glasses.

[mrcharly-YHT]

I started to learn imperial at school - then they switched to metric.

So my brain is hybrid. Seems natural to think in imperial for some things, but I'm comfortable in metric.

Have never got head around the 'litres per 100km' thing though. Dunno why they didn't go for 'km per 10l'.