desprateseagull
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EU 'gives up' on forcing the UK to drop pounds and ounces, pints etc.
EU 'gives up' on forcing the UK to drop pounds and ounces, pints etc.
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long live the Pint
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British Bulldog
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- Feb 6, 2006
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Cian
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Can't you just legally define the "pint" as "568ml" like Canada and Ireland have? Being one of only four countries in the world living deeply in the past isn't something to boast about, particularly when Myanmar and Liberia are two of the other ones.
British Bulldog
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- Feb 6, 2006
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It would'nt be quite the same telling the mrs your just popping down the local for a couple of 568mls.
Why is using imperial measurements "living in the past"?
Cian
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Erm, thats not what I meant. Its entirely legal to order "pints" here as the NSAI has "pint" defined as 568ml. If you're ever over here, look at the price lists outside bars, they're marked as "568ml (pint)"
I actually thought the UK -had- done this; I know the "metric marytr" bullshit was entirely down to traders having scales that were too old to be set correctly by the weights and measures office and NOT down to them selling in pounds.
I actually thought the UK -had- done this; I know the "metric marytr" bullshit was entirely down to traders having scales that were too old to be set correctly by the weights and measures office and NOT down to them selling in pounds.
Cian
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Because they're obsolete?
The Large One
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No they're not. They're still being used.
They clearly aren't though, or we wouldn't still be using them.
Cian
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By four countries, two of which are third world; one of which has been slowly obsoleting them for 40 years and where they mean different things anyway (the US), and the UK.
Thats obsolete to me.
Thanks. When I want a lecture on living in the past I'll go to a country that isnt' still largely run by a weird medieval religion.
Cian
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That would be the UK, then? Where you've got a unified church and state and a religious leader as the head of state. Because if you think the Catholic Church have any influence in Ireland these days, you're sadly deluded.
Monkster
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ABORTION. End of
perth seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Australia is on the metric system but you can still buy pints here.
Are you seriously telling me Irish divorce and abortion laws aren't largely shaped by influence from the Catholic church?
Cian
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Its actually just as legal here as in the UK (needs medical grounds, etc), its just that nobody does it (theres about ten a year).
Northern Ireland is where its entirely illegal.
Cian
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The Large One
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What's that got to do with anything? You're completely mis-using the word 'obsolete'.
The imperial system is still being used, so it's not obsolete.
Got it?
Fair enough - it's legal. But, as you say, almost no one does it. Which must be, in large part, due to the influence of the Catholic Church.
Monkster
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Not quite though is it, medical grounds yes, the same....
The crime under the Offences Aginst the Person Act 1861 occurs when the intention is the deliberate and direct abortion of the child