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No you just get stabbed or if you're lucky shot.

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where do you live OB ? cloud cuckoo land? cuz it is not in the real world like where I live and there are fights around here at least weekly likely even more so

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Pretty sure it does.

They also shoot/stab you these days, rather than a prolonged fight.

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You don't get in to town much on a Saturday night do you? ;)

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It can get a bit tasty there late on when the locals have been on the Pimms all day :shocked:

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Kicks off at Ascott occasionally as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0r97Sb9nlI

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Oddly enough, France, home of the metric system still uses pints and pounds (pinte and livre).

"Gabriel Mouton, a church vicar in Lyons, France, is considered by many to be the founding father of the metric system. In 1670, Mouton proposed a decimal system of measurement that French scientists would spend years further refining."

"In 1812, Napoleon abandoned the metric system; although it was still taught in school, he largely let people use whichever measures they liked until it was reinstated in 1840. According to Dr Alder, “It took a span of roughly 100 years before almost all French people started using it.”"

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They still use the words pint and pound, but in a similar way to our use of tonne. It’s just a word, and these days it refers to a metric measure (500ml or 500g as the case may be). A metric tonne is 1,000kg, while an imperial (long) ton is 1,016kg.

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Is that used informally? In France, I've always seen drinks listed as either 25cl, 33cl, or 50cl.

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Yes, it’s informal but the barman knows what you mean. If you ask for une pinte you get a 50cl glass. The words have survived metrication but the measured quantities haven’t. You’re just getting the nearest metric equivalent, which is actually une demi-litre.

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Many bars in Paris list "pinte" as the size of glass they will sell.

http://www.leschasseursdeprix.com/pa...as-chers-PARIS

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Which is 50cl in France

https://www.findabottle.fr/pinte-et-chope-de-biere/

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Is this actually a real plan or just a distraction from the Tory problems? Given the fact that businesses are being crippled by the impact of Brexit, the last thing they need is the additional cost of a dual weights & measures system.

No business owner in their right mind would volunteer to add this to their overheads. This is just a useless bone thrown to their backward looking (older) core voters.

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Its got all the hallmarks of a bright Boris idea. He genuinely believes this its a vote winner and a priority in people's lives.
Like him, it will be quietly shelved.

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No-one asks for a "50cl beer" they ask for "a pint".