From: ithinkiam@gmail.com
J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> On 2025/11/21 21:5:44, Chris wrote:
>> Rink wrote:
>>> Op 11-10-2025 om 21:06 schreef Stan Brown:
>>>> On 11 Oct 2025 17:20:39 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>>>> So we probably should have a poll on whether there is *any* country
>>>>> *other* than the US, which calls the ground floor the first floor.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Reminds me of a 1981 Isaac Asimov essay, where in a footnote he said
>>>> that the two most powerful countries not on the metric system were
>>>> the United States and Liberia. And I believe Liberia has gone metric
>>>> since then.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> O ?
>>>
>>> Since when has the UK gone metric?
>>> Miles, inches, Pints, Ounches, etc, all gone?
>>
>> Officially everything in the UK is metric except pints of beer, road speed
>> and distance. Pints of milk might still be a thing, but are labelled as 568
>> ml.
>>
>>
>>
> Still there, but legally all but pints in pubs must be given in metric,
> though the standard sizes tend to remain as the packaging machinery
> wasn't changed, so you get 454g jars - gradually changing as I presume
> things wear out. Petrol and Diesel are shown as per litre on station
> signs; schools have taught metric for decades. Milk is an odd one:
> standard milk is sold in 1, 2, and 4 pint bottles (usually the squarish
> plastic ones), though they are labelled as "2.xxx litres/4 pints", but
> anything unusual, e. g. "filtered", "organic", etc. are in e. g. 2 litre
> bottles (so if you buy a "fancy" milk, you're being stung twice
Yeah, noticed that too. I don't buy fancy milk but have seen some 4 pinters
being 2 litres. I think it might be local dairies rather than the big
supermarkets, to try and look cost similar.
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