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Damien

30-05-2022 23:00

Re: The return of the lb

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36124075)

Is that what everyone is asking for? Further confusion?

I don't think anything material will change. It's just some red meat to whichever small minority of the population still resents that some things are in metric?

Sephiroth

30-05-2022 23:02

Re: The return of the lb

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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36124107)

I don't think anything material will change. It's just some red meat to whichever small minority of the population still resents that some things are in metric?

Or, just as likely, another misjudgement by Boris that he'll be loved for this.

He's awful and taking the public for bigger fools than ever. Who's advising him?

Mr K	30-05-2022 23:05

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36124023)

Correct. When we first joined the EU, some people refused to display their prices in a different way from before and were eventually prosecuted for it. The law expects traders to use metric measurements, but permits imperial to be used alongside.

The move to metric was on the cards long before we joined the EU. Mainly because it makes a heck of a lot more sense.

Of all the issues facing the country atm this is proof the Govt has totally lost the plot.

papa smurf

31-05-2022 10:34

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We should bring back into common use roods/chains/rods/perches, that'll sort the young uns out.

Hugh	31-05-2022 12:00

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And Ricketts, TB, Polio, back-street abortions, and other "joys" of the 50s…

Jaymoss

31-05-2022 12:07

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36124128)

And Ricketts, TB, Polio, back-street abortions, and other "joys" of the 50s…

respect and discipline? proper sentencing and horrid prisons that might actually act as a deterrent? no snowflakes?

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and a close community

Hugh	31-05-2022 12:20

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Respect for "your betters"?

"Knowing your place"?

People with mental illness being institutionalised, and approx. 3% of children dying* before their 1st birthday - strange definition of "good old days".

*10% of that now

Jaymoss

31-05-2022 12:24

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Old ladies were not targeted for their pensions, kids were not terrorising neighbourhoods vandalising town centres

Good and bad in both then and now

Damien

31-05-2022 12:55

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I am sure old ladies were targeted for their money, just in different ways. Greed and con men have existed as long as civilisation itself.

mrmistoffelees

31-05-2022 13:07

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Might as well have Antonin Dvorak's 9th (New World) Symphony on repeat....

Pierre

31-05-2022 14:35

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36124131)

Not everything from recent history was great but on balance not everything about modern society is great either.

Hugh	31-05-2022 14:38

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Agreed

Damien

31-05-2022 14:48

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Bring back Woolworths

Mr K	31-05-2022 16:58

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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36124151)

Bring back Woolworths

No way, the pick and mix was like a war zone.

OLD BOY

31-05-2022 18:08

Re: The return of the lb

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Originally Posted by Jaymoss (Post 36124132)

Old ladies were not targeted for their pensions, kids were not terrorising neighbourhoods vandalising town centres

Good and bad in both then and now

H’mmm. My dad used to talk about people regularly fighting on the streets. That doesn’t happen now, I’m glad to say.

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