A pint too far?
 

For those of us who value such things, as opposed to the vast majority who could not care less, this little article I spotted yesterday should give cause for concern. The faceless army of bureaucrats in Brussels are determined to expunge every scintilla of Britishness from our beloved country. Next on the list are the last vestiges of imperial measure, the 2LB loaf and the pint of milk.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...014721,00.html

Have they really so little to do with their time and our money?

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...just the tip of the iceberg. 70% of legislation introduced in this country now originates from Brussels.

And even more worrying...how long before they try to abolish pints of beer?:mad:

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How many of us still get milk in pint bottles though?

Blue tits used to love breaking through the foil and nicking the cream, when it was left on all our doorsteps.

It's too hard for them to do now that it comes in boxes, from inside the supermarket.

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i think we are fighting a lost cause..... we have just been put in a big melting pot,and we dont have a say anymore,,,

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Saw this issue raised on the news this morning but the full article wasn't on until after I'd left home for work.

Knowing how 'those in power' act we'll probably have to fork out a pile of dosh just so as we can lose our daily pinta.

:mad:

Then what's next? Oh that's right we haven't got much left although I suppose they haven't issude EC guidelines for the size of offspring .........."That child is not of regulation size you will have to change it"

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i suppose with the longer drinking hours we could do with bigger glasses ...!

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I am sorry but I don't see the problem. We should have gone totally metric in 72 (I think, please feel free to correct me). Why do we still drive in mph and km/h?

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because the motorway sighns , maps etc give distance in miles it only suits that the speed getting there should be as well

thats my theory and ime sticking to it :)

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Weren't we allowed to keep both systems of weights and measures for a while after the changeover as a means of sweetening the pill. Very gracious of Brussels I'm sure.

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Thats my point. What a stupid error/mistake that was. Almost 35 years later and we are still in a confused mess.

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We can't really bame the EEC for metrification. It was Harold Wilson's Labour Government of 1965 that started a ten year plan for Britain to go metric. This really started in 1971, with the introduction of decimal coinage.

We didn't join the then Common Market until 1973, after we voted to join following a referendum.

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Which way did you vote ;)

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I wasn't old enough to vote at the time but, if I had been, I would have voted No.

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You little liar!

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I get mixed up with the abolition of slavery and women's sufferage, so I can't remember.:D

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What do you mean?

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i want my bananas and cucumbers like they used to be,,,, BENT

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Wrong, as usual Garinda. The referendum was in 1975 -after our joining of the Common Market - and wording on the ballot was something like "Do you accept the renegotiated terms of the UK membership of the Common Market". Those "terms" were meaningless; the usual Wilsonian bull**** of its day.

We have never had a simple referendum on the Common Market, the question being "Do we stay in or get out"; I know where my cross would go.

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I suppose then that I must have slept through it, either that, or my hormones were playing up that day and I was obsessing on my favourite lust object, who, though it may come as a surprise to many, was not Edward Heath.

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I appologise most humbly. I was eight, my only excuse.

For my penance I'll wear glasses and shave all my hair off, in tribute to you.:D

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Oooohhhh! Specs and Stubble, now we are talking!