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long live the Pint
- Thread starter desprateseagull
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maffew
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mate, do you think you are gonna hit your pub target , whats the end date? It seems to have slowed down somewhat
few more PINTS to go
Cian
Well-known member
Its been trying to, very weakly, since the mid 1800s! The laws are in place to have metric units used as the primary measurements, they're just not enforced; they still teach their weird imperial-size-names-but-different-sizes system in schools, etc.
bhaexpress
New member
To be honest I spent some time in Dublin last year and would agree with MYOB. It's not Father Ted anymore and the church in Eire has about as much sway as it does in the UK now.
Mendoza
NSC's Most Stalked
Its gone a bit wrong, went on holiday and fell behind target
Only half way there!!
Off for a few birthday PINTS now
bring it on!
Wrong. Draught beer and cider can only legally be sold in third, half and pint quantities or multiples thereof. Beer glasses are manufactured and government stamped to the relevant imperial measurement with no indication of the metric equivilent measurement whatsoever.
MattBackHome
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 11,876
Metric beer measurements RULE. If I was King, I'd abolish the Pint first thing Monday morning.
Then I'd destroy the monarchy and behead myself.
Then I'd destroy the monarchy and behead myself.
Mr C
..ooOOoo..
Extremely weakly, and very much not enforced! None of the weights I ever see are in the metric system. Certainly in practical terms, over here, the metric system basically doesn't exist.
Monkster
Ragamuffin
*snigger*
bhaexpress
New member
Hmm, that must be why you have to by fruit and veg in Metric wieghts, sugar comes in Kilos and milk comes in litres.
The Large One
Who's Next?
Do you mean by that that 'Post-X', the UK and Ireland have similar abortion laws? I don't get your reasoning here. How can it be?
Abortion is illegal in Ireland, it's not in the UK, nor has it been since 1967. The times in Ireland where abortions have been performed have been exceptions and certainly not the norm.
In other words, the law has not changed, merely the allowance of an act under extreme circumstances whereby the rights and wishes of the mother-to-be, hitherto not given as much weight or prominence in law as the unborn child, had to be adhered to.
The Large One
Who's Next?
Milk is labelled in litres, but it is merely the equivalent of a rounded number of pints. In other words, one often buys often 2.27 litres of milk.
You can ask for and buy a pound of carrots, you will get charged for 454 grammes of them though.
Man of Harveys
Well-known member
Anyone who gives any kind of a shit about what the size of the units of beer they drink is called is as stupid and small-minded as anyone who gives more of a shit about what their money is called rather than what you can actually buy with it. I couldn't give a flying fuckery whether I drink a pint or a half-litre, assuming that I'm paying for what I get. And measurements that divide neatly into 10s and 100s are easier to use; how can they not be?
But the same kind of cranks were also no doubt adamant that pounds, shillings, farthings, two bobs and tuppence ha'penny bits and all that was a far easier system to understand than post-decimalisation currency. And they were wrong too. Today's decision is bloody stupid, IMHO.
But the same kind of cranks were also no doubt adamant that pounds, shillings, farthings, two bobs and tuppence ha'penny bits and all that was a far easier system to understand than post-decimalisation currency. And they were wrong too. Today's decision is bloody stupid, IMHO.
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British Bulldog
The great escape
- Feb 6, 2006
- 10,974
It's not so much being stupid and small minded it's more a case of I know how many pints of whatever i'm drinking it takes me to start falling into bushes and all these mls and litre measurements just confuses the issue.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
I'm with MoH about not really caring how it comes but I think what pisses a lot of people off is that quite often the status quo is changed for no apparent reason other than change. Where's the justification for changing the pint (when referring to beer) and where's the justification for banning people from solely selling vegetables in pounds and ounces. It worked. Why fix it?
Heffle Gull
JCL since 1979
It's not so much being stupid and small minded it's more a case of I know how many pints of whatever i'm drinking it takes me to start falling into bushes and all these mls and litre measurements just confuses the issue.
Ah! but think of the fun you could have trying to work out how many Litres it takes before you fall over.
British Bulldog
The great escape
- Feb 6, 2006
- 10,974
Ah! but think of the fun you could have trying to work out how many Litres it takes before you fall over.
I like your thinking
Man of Harveys
Well-known member
Ah! but think of the fun you could have trying to work out how many Litres it takes before you fall over.
I can recommend going to Munich and/or Stuttgart in a few week's time and doing just that - about 4-5 about at the very most for me.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I think that might just be the dullest post you;ve ever put on NSC.
Mind you, its in good company on this thread.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
what I want to know is how those frauleins can carry all those glasses (steins?). They weigh a bloody 1016.04608 kilogrammes and I need both hands just to hold one.