30-05-2022, 22:00
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Re: The return of the lb
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Is that what everyone is asking for? Further confusion?
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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?
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30-05-2022, 22:02
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Re: The return of the lb
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Originally Posted by Damien
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?
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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?
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30-05-2022, 22:05
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Re: The return of the lb
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
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.
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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.
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31-05-2022, 09:34
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Re: The return of the lb
We should bring back into common use roods/chains/rods/perches, that'll sort the young uns out.
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31-05-2022, 11:00
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Re: The return of the lb
And Ricketts, TB, Polio, back-street abortions, and other "joys" of the 50s…
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31-05-2022, 11:07
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Re: The return of the lb
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And Ricketts, TB, Polio, back-street abortions, and other "joys" of the 50s…
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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
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31-05-2022, 11:20
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Re: The return of the lb
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
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31-05-2022, 11:24
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Re: The return of the lb
Old ladies were not targeted for their pensions, kids were not terrorising neighbourhoods vandalising town centres
Good and bad in both then and now
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31-05-2022, 11:55
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Re: The return of the lb
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.
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31-05-2022, 12:07
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Re: The return of the lb
Might as well have Antonin Dvorak's 9th (New World) Symphony on repeat....
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31-05-2022, 13:35
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Re: The return of the lb
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Originally Posted by Hugh
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
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Not everything from recent history was great but on balance not everything about modern society is great either.
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31-05-2022, 13:38
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Re: The return of the lb
Agreed
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31-05-2022, 13:48
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Re: The return of the lb
Bring back Woolworths
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31-05-2022, 15:58
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Re: The return of the lb
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Bring back Woolworths
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No way, the pick and mix was like a war zone.
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31-05-2022, 17:08
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Re: The return of the lb
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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
Old ladies were not targeted for their pensions, kids were not terrorising neighbourhoods vandalising town centres
Good and bad in both then and now
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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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