02-03-2022, 10:32 PM
I think it is good to be different. The drive for everything to be the same or homogeneous these days is nauseating. From January 1 2000 it was illegal to sell goods in Imperial measures in the UK due to EU membership rules. You could label these in imperial but they were not allowed to be more prominently labelled. Market traders selling vegetables came to prominence when they were convicted for doing so. One of the little side shows of Brexit is that the UK laws are being amended to allow the sales of goods in imperial units again. But for some reason the "Pint" measurement in the UK or Ireland (who are staunch Europeans) was never touched. I would say some Eurocrat Civil Servant took one look at a grizzled old Dubliner with a pint of Guinness in his hand and thought better of it.