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(02-03-2022, 08:15 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: Unfortunate calling your business Bike Sales when Google does this to the name in the tab.
I was going to explain how other countries have made the transition from imperial to metric systems but, nah, who cares? Having recently discovered that the Americas (north and south) use coloured nautical channel markers that are reversed compared to the rest of the world, I've decided that you guys are just determinedly different.
That said, I agree entirely with pdedse, if the USA is going to stick with miles as the unit of road measurement, it should ditch the requirement also to show kph on speedometers. The uncluttered look is so much more appealing.
Wait, you guys sail on the wrong side of the road too?
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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.
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(02-03-2022, 10:32 PM)Tev62_imp Wrote: 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.
" ... yes, a 568 mL of your unfiltered blonde ... "
