UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
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UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
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Re: UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
#2What next, abandoning the decimal money? Then again, with enough inflation anything less than pound might not be needed.
Re: UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
#3Wow, just when you think things couldn't get more stupid. Revert to a clearly inferior and difficult to use measurement system for what? Politics?
Re: UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
#4Wow, just when you think things couldn't get more stupid. Revert to a clearly inferior and difficult to use measurement system for what? Politics?
To distract us.
Re: UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
#5This is distraction and has no chance whatsoever of happening. It's best to ignore it.
Re: UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
#6Just put imperial measurements on consumer goods next to metric and satisfy the brexiteers, no need to change everything.
Re: UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
#7Why? Imperial is a terrible measurement system, inferior.
Re: UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
#8I mean its a silly idea but I don’t see why systems would necessarily need updating if people chose to sell in imperial measurements.
1 - any seller would likely in any case have to list the metric equivalent anyway.
2 - all imperial measurements are now defined by metric measurements anyway.
3 - any company choosing to sell B2B in imperial measurements would likely find itself at a commercial disadvantage, as businesses in the UK almost always work in metric.
Re: UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
#9Wow, just when you think things couldn't get more stupid. Revert to a clearly inferior and difficult to use measurement system for what? Politics?
I can almost guarantee that this is being proposed because it performed well among a certain demographic during some focus group. So it’s a way to get a few cheap votes from the “back in my day…” crowd. It has the additional benefit of appearing like the government are doing something, while they somehow still continue to not tackle the other ongoing crises (among other things - energy prices and the recent mini-budget which cost the Chancellor of the Exchequer his job)
Re: UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
#10switch to imperial? is that a typo?