POLL: Should Canada return to Imperial Measurements.
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ziggy @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:06 am
You cant use stones either.
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Fiction: The EU has criminalised the use of imperial units
Fact: British weights and measures legislation has always made it a criminal offence to use units 'not approved for trade'
It has been a criminal offence to use the peck and bushel since 1968. Other units whose use has been a criminal offence for some years include the stone and hundredweight. Penalties are set by national governments.
On the wider issue of denying freedom of choice, weights and measures legislation is there to protect the public, by ensuring that the standards used for measuring equipment are maintained, and that traders are providing honest and open information to the public. Trading Standards Officers protect the public against unscrupulous traders. To permit traders and public to pick and choose which units they want to use would lead to anarchy, and the sort of confusion that anti-metric supporters claim to be against. There was no outcry by such people when a UK publican was fined by Trading Standards for selling beer in metric measures! Nor were there any complaints when it became illegal to sell by the stone several years ago.
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Fact: British weights and measures legislation has always made it a criminal offence to use units 'not approved for trade'
It has been a criminal offence to use the peck and bushel since 1968. Other units whose use has been a criminal offence for some years include the stone and hundredweight. Penalties are set by national governments.
On the wider issue of denying freedom of choice, weights and measures legislation is there to protect the public, by ensuring that the standards used for measuring equipment are maintained, and that traders are providing honest and open information to the public. Trading Standards Officers protect the public against unscrupulous traders. To permit traders and public to pick and choose which units they want to use would lead to anarchy, and the sort of confusion that anti-metric supporters claim to be against. There was no outcry by such people when a UK publican was fined by Trading Standards for selling beer in metric measures! Nor were there any complaints when it became illegal to sell by the stone several years ago.
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Blue_Nose @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:06 am
Apparently to GB, adopting metric means twelve, or any other number that isn't ten, will no longer exist.
Mind you, that's coming from someone who thinks the validity of a system of measurement is determined by how well it tricks him into thinking it's a nice day outside.
LightStarr @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:10 am
Blue For the zinging win.
ziggy @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:22 am
LightStarr LightStarr:
Blue For the zinging win.
For sure,now lets move on to more important things....like why the British have such bad teeth.
Tricks @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:23 am
Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:
Apparently to GB, adopting metric means twelve, or any other number that isn't ten, will no longer exist.
Mind you, that's coming from someone who thinks the validity of a system of measurement is determined by how well it tricks him into thinking it's a nice day outside.
I don't see how being able to divide 12 more with more numbers then you can 10 makes Imperial superior. That just doesn't make any sense. How in hell does that measure how good the system is? Meh, he has ignored my posts, so he lost already. Mind you, that's coming from someone who thinks the validity of a system of measurement is determined by how well it tricks him into thinking it's a nice day outside.
LightStarr @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:24 am
Ooooo the air in London did it!
ziggy @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:37 am
LightStarr LightStarr:
Ooooo the air in London did it!
Things havent been the same there since the big Masterbatathon.
GreatBriton @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:43 am
Tricks Tricks:
Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:
Apparently to GB, adopting metric means twelve, or any other number that isn't ten, will no longer exist.
Mind you, that's coming from someone who thinks the validity of a system of measurement is determined by how well it tricks him into thinking it's a nice day outside.
I don't see how being able to divide 12 more with more numbers then you can 10 makes Imperial superior. That just doesn't make any sense. How in hell does that measure how good the system is? Mind you, that's coming from someone who thinks the validity of a system of measurement is determined by how well it tricks him into thinking it's a nice day outside.
Try and divide 10 wine bottles - or 10 of anything - into three or four equal parts, each witht he same number of bottles or whatever. Can it be done?
Then try the same with 12 objects.
See which is easiest.
And answer me this: are people on this website so dumb that they still haven't grasped it even though it has been explained about 5 times? Surely the eduacation system in canad isn't THAT bad.
I've explained now around 5 times why divisions of 12 are better than divisions of 10. If you STILL cannot grasp it - as most British 5 year olds can - then there's no use continuing the argument.
LightStarr @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:44 am
The metric system has nothing to do with packaging things.
GreatBriton @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:46 am
LightStarr LightStarr:
The metric system has nothing to do with packaging things.
Has it not?
So that does that mean that whenever you want to package goods then only the Imperial system will suffice?
That surely proves my point at how bad Metric is.
ziggy @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:47 am
GreatBriton GreatBriton:
Tricks Tricks:
Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:
Apparently to GB, adopting metric means twelve, or any other number that isn't ten, will no longer exist.
Mind you, that's coming from someone who thinks the validity of a system of measurement is determined by how well it tricks him into thinking it's a nice day outside.
I don't see how being able to divide 12 more with more numbers then you can 10 makes Imperial superior. That just doesn't make any sense. How in hell does that measure how good the system is? Mind you, that's coming from someone who thinks the validity of a system of measurement is determined by how well it tricks him into thinking it's a nice day outside.
Try and divide 10 wine bottles - or 10 of anything - into three or four equal parts, each witht he same number of bottles or whatever. Can it be done?
Then try the same with 12 objects.
See which is easiest.
And answer me this: are people on this website so dumb that they still haven't grasped it even though it has been explained about 5 times? Surely the eduacation system in canad isn't THAT bad.
ten dollars divided by 4 is $2.50
twelve dollars divided by 4 is....hmmmm,let me get my calculator out.
Groups of ten are much easier to work with.
LightStarr @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:48 am
Metric is about length, width, height, distance and so on. It really has no bairing...baring...anyway, it doesn't affect how a company wants to package their goods.
GreatBriton @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:48 am
ziggy ziggy:
GreatBriton GreatBriton:
Tricks Tricks:
Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:
Apparently to GB, adopting metric means twelve, or any other number that isn't ten, will no longer exist.
Mind you, that's coming from someone who thinks the validity of a system of measurement is determined by how well it tricks him into thinking it's a nice day outside.
I don't see how being able to divide 12 more with more numbers then you can 10 makes Imperial superior. That just doesn't make any sense. How in hell does that measure how good the system is? Mind you, that's coming from someone who thinks the validity of a system of measurement is determined by how well it tricks him into thinking it's a nice day outside.
Try and divide 10 wine bottles - or 10 of anything - into three or four equal parts, each witht he same number of bottles or whatever. Can it be done?
Then try the same with 12 objects.
See which is easiest.
And answer me this: are people on this website so dumb that they still haven't grasped it even though it has been explained about 5 times? Surely the eduacation system in canad isn't THAT bad.
ten dollars divided by 4 is $2.50
twelve dollars divided by 4 is....hmmmm,let me get my calculator out.
Groups of ten are much easier to work with.
You are so DUMB!
Surely 12 dollars divided by 4 equals 3.
SIMPLE! Scoolchildren know that sum! AND there is no decimal point involved.
Who needs all that 2.50 mumbo jumbo when 3 suffices?
I knew Canadians were dumb but I didn't know that British 8 years olds were more intelligent.
GreatBriton @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:51 am
Are you beginning to see that 12 divides more easily than 10?
Tricks @ Mon May 28, 2007 9:53 am
GreatBriton GreatBriton:
Tricks Tricks:
Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:
Apparently to GB, adopting metric means twelve, or any other number that isn't ten, will no longer exist.
Mind you, that's coming from someone who thinks the validity of a system of measurement is determined by how well it tricks him into thinking it's a nice day outside.
I don't see how being able to divide 12 more with more numbers then you can 10 makes Imperial superior. That just doesn't make any sense. How in hell does that measure how good the system is? Mind you, that's coming from someone who thinks the validity of a system of measurement is determined by how well it tricks him into thinking it's a nice day outside.
Try and divide 10 wine bottles - or 10 of anything - into three or four equal parts, each witht he same number of bottles or whatever. Can it be done?
Then try the same with 12 objects.
See which is easiest.
And answer me this: are people on this website so dumb that they still haven't grasped it even though it has been explained about 5 times? Surely the eduacation system in canad isn't THAT bad.
I've explained now around 5 times why divisions of 12 are better than divisions of 10. If you STILL cannot grasp it - as most British 5 year olds can - then there's no use continuing the argument.
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