HANDS Off OUR PINTS says UK...

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 2:54 pm

The Daily Mail, Monday 29 August 2005.

They caused uproar by making us buy vegetables in kilos and grams, and now they are gunning for the Pint and the mile as well.

Brussels bureaucrats are preparing a fresh assault on the UK's Government to announce a date by which it will finally replace pints, miles and acres with litres,kilometres and hectares. A spokesman said, the Government had to fix a date as soon as possible under the obligations of the EU Court in Strasbourg.

The scrapping of pounds and ounces in shops caused widespread resentment and a new order for change could produce a fresh wave of metric martyrs.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:07 pm

Oh no ! They'll have to move that line round the top of the pint glasses.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:09 pm

Bez wrote: Oh no ! They'll have to move that line round the top of the pint glasses.

Looks like the EU rules OK:mad:

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:12 pm

capt_buzzard wrote: Looks like the EU rules OK:mad:

We just keep getting sucked in....what are our politicians in brussels for I wonder ? To agree with EVERYTHING ?

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:15 pm

Bez wrote: We just keep getting sucked in....what are our politicians in brussels for I wonder ? To agree with EVERYTHING ?We still have the Pint, they tried that once on us. Let them try again:wah:

We have the rest though..,.but not the pint..NO. NEVER.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:24 pm

The day we lose 'miles' I'll really be lost...:driving:

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:17 am

Kilometers is not so bad, and ladies generally appreciate kilos over pounds because the numbers are smaller (though come to think of it, the stone system ... but I digress). But there's a certain manliness about ordering a pint that would be lost forever.

:yh_glasses Could I have a half-litre of Tenants ... please?

pink princess · Post by **pink princess** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:27 am

they cant get rid of pints.....

what do you ask for when you go into a pub? whats half a pint if its not half a pint?!

as for no miles, i have enough trouble working miles out and getting round my head just how far that really means i have to go anything else and ill be seriously lost!!

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:50 am

I was in England '90-'93. Some people were still trying to work the new decimal pound system and whingeing about the good ol' days. Somebody remember the old system? Can you list it, please? how many farthings to a pound, etc?

theia · Post by **theia** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:06 am

Accountable wrote: I was in England '90-'93. Some people were still trying to work the new decimal pound system and whingeing about the good ol' days. Somebody remember the old system? Can you list it, please? how many farthings to a pound, etc?

I grew up with the wonderful pounds, shillings and pence. Terribly difficult to understand but wonderful all the same. Half crowns, florins, threepenny bits, ten bob notes....

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:29 am

Accountable wrote: I was in England '90-'93. Some people were still trying to work the new decimal pound system and whingeing about the good ol' days. Somebody remember the old system? Can you list it, please? how many farthings to a pound, etc?

The people you met must have been slow learners....we converted to decimal currency on the 15th February 1971......:-2

there were halfpennys

pennys

threepenny bit = 3 pennies

sixpence = 6 pennies

shilling = 12 pennies

florin = 24 pennies = 2 shillings

half a crown = 30 pennies = 2 shillings and sixpence

(a farthing was a quarter of a penny)

20 shillings = 1 pound

240 pennies = 1 pound

There was a 10 shilling note

1 pound note

5 pound note

There were other notes...but we were too poor to see them te he !!!;)

Blimey...I had forgotten how complicated it was....at least you only have to use your ten times table nowadays.

Anyway, I have a full set of all the old coins as a keep sake. I also have some victorian pennies....NO I'm not that old...they were amongst my mums effects.

Hope you haven't fallen asleep by now....you did ask ...warm wishes Bez..

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:34 pm

Bez wrote: The people you met must have been slow learners....we converted to decimal currency on the 15th February 1971......:-2

there were halfpennys

pennys

threepenny bit = 3 pennies

sixpence = 6 pennies

shilling = 12 pennies

florin = 24 pennies = 2 shillings

half a crown = 30 pennies = 2 shillings and sixpence

(a farthing was a quarter of a penny)

20 shillings = 1 pound

240 pennies = 1 pound

There was a 10 shilling note

1 pound note

5 pound note

There were other notes...but we were too poor to see them te he !!!;)

Blimey...I had forgotten how complicated it was....at least you only have to use your ten times table nowadays.

Anyway, I have a full set of all the old coins as a keep sake. I also have some victorian pennies....NO I'm not that old...they were amongst my mums effects.

Hope you haven't fallen asleep by now....you did ask ...warm wishes Bez..
My coworkers at the time were in their 60's. They were probably mourning the old days. Thanks for the information!

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:53 pm

Who dares to come into my kitchen and confiscate my British 1 Pint glasses?

"I have only five words for you Ã¢â‚¬ From my cold, dead hands." **

**play on Charlton Heston's words.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:09 pm

Do you have pints in the states?

How do you order beer?

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:13 pm

abbey wrote: Do you have pints in the states?

How do you order beer?

I have regulation pint glasses!

But it is different in every establishment. Some places use the regular 12 oz. bottles, other places put the beer in either 10, 12, 16 oz. or bigger mugs.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:44 pm

Tombstone wrote: I have regulation pint glasses!

But it is different in every establishment. Some places use the regular 12 oz. bottles, other places put the beer in either 10, 12, 16 oz. or bigger mugs.It just does'nt have the same ring to it somehow!

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:00 pm

abbey wrote: Do you have pints in the states?

How do you order beer?
By the case.