...and they're at it with milk too...
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Correct. As Clapham-gull pointed out, milk is one of the exemptions.
But this isn't an exclusive imperial product given the metric size is shown on the side of the container.
...and they're at it with milk too...
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Correct. As Clapham-gull pointed out, milk is one of the exemptions.
Absolutely spot on. Confuse, Distract, Divide. All cleverly takes your eye off what rat shit this country is going to...
Talking of re-opening Covid investigations, surely the new evidence that has been made public after the police and Gray findings is sufficient grounds for them re-opening the investigation into DownIt Street parties ?And a game of diminishing returns. The only chance he has is to go for an early election.
I suspect enough letters have gone in but he will scrape through a leadership challenge greatly damaged.
On another subject, those pushing for Starmergate to re-opened have got themselves in a right pickle now.
It's all pretty simple really.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(unit)
The name "stone" derives from the use of stones for weights, a practice that dates back into antiquity. The Biblical law against the carrying of "diverse weights, a large and a small"[7] is more literally translated as "you shall not carry a stone and a stone (אבן ואבן), a large and a small". There was no standardised "stone" in the ancient Jewish world,[8] but in Roman times stone weights were crafted to multiples of the Roman pound.[9] Such weights varied in quality: the Yale Medical Library holds 10 and 50-pound examples of polished serpentine,[10] while a 40-pound example at the Eschborn Museum is made of sandstone.[11]
The English stone under law varied by commodity and in practice varied according to local standards. The Assize of Weights and Measures, a statute of uncertain date from c. 1300, describes stones of 5 merchants' pounds used for glass; stones of 8 lb. used for beeswax, sugar, pepper, alum, cumin, almonds,[16] cinnamon, and nutmegs;[17] stones of 12 lb. used for lead; and the London stone of 12+1⁄2 lb. used for wool.[16][17] In 1350 Edward III issued a new statute defining the stone weight, to be used for wool and "other Merchandizes", at 14 pounds,[nb 2] reaffirmed by Henry VII in 1495.[19]
In England, merchants traditionally sold potatoes in half-stone increments of 7 pounds. Live animals were weighed in stones of 14 lb; but, once slaughtered, their carcasses were weighed in stones of 8 lb. Thus, if the animal's carcass accounted for 8⁄14 of the animal's weight, the butcher could return the dressed carcasses to the animal's owner stone for stone, keeping the offal, blood and hide as his due for slaughtering and dressing the animal.[21] Smithfield market continued to use the 8 lb stone for meat until shortly before the Second World War.[22] The Oxford English Dictionary also lists:[23]
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The 1772 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica defined the stone:[12]
STONE also denotes a certain quantity or weight of some commodities. A stone of beef, in London, is the quantity of eight pounds; in Hertfordshire, twelve pounds; in Scotland sixteen pounds.
The Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which applied to all of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, consolidated the weights and measures legislation of several centuries into a single document. It revoked the provision that bales of wool should be made up of 20 stones, each of 14 pounds, but made no provision for the continued use of the stone. Ten years later, a stone still varied from 5 pounds (glass) to 8 pounds (meat and fish) to 14 pounds (wool and "horseman's weight").[13] The Act of 1835 permitted using a stone of 14 pounds for trade[14] but other values remained in use. James Britten, in 1880 for example, catalogued a number of different values of the stone in various British towns and cities, ranging from 4 lb to 26 lb.[15] The value of the stone and associated units of measure that were legalised for purposes of trade were clarified by the Weights and Measures Act 1835 as follows:[14]
Have the Tories realised yet that petrol will be more than £8 a gallon?
The world's gone mad and I've turned into my Dad.
Yes, it would just be pounds and shillings, with no need for pence. So all in all a complete waste of time, money and brain cells. They do like a good waste of money this government.
Hoorah, another Bash Boris Brexit thread.
Led by a Guardian slant, what more could you ask for?
The Vote Leave cabal are out of ideas
?? Surely it's the losers that need ideas, not the ones that are quite happy with the outcome as it stands?
?? Surely it's the losers that need ideas, not the ones that are quite happy with the outcome as it stands?
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