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Stuff should have to be
We'll have to agree to disagree there. You're welcome to pick your trading partners based on which units they are willing to use, but it's not the government's business to dictate.
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but it's not the government's business to dictate.
I'm more than happy for them to dictate that everything should be in metric, because it makes everyone's lives easier to have a universal, sensible, comparable standard that practically everyone understands and is the same as our major international trading partners, it makes perfect sense, it doesn't mean people can't also use the stupid measurements for the next 40 years until 99% of people who understood them are dead and then it's just a case of using a conversion app when needing old manuals or textbooks or conversing with anyone who's re-established contact from whatever remains of what used to be the USA.
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Except that’s a pretty shitty position for a consumer to be in if those ‘trading partners’ are the main places you can buy stuff.
There’s a reason we have consumer protection - because it makes it harder for people to get mugged off by shops and businesses. Standardising measures is a part of that, and seems pretty reasonable that it would be something the government can dictate.
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andyfallsoff
You're fine with both sets of units because you are a clever person who also grew up using the daft things. I have vague memories of the stupid units as a child and I'm nearly 40, anything Imperial instantly confuses me just because I never had to grow up using it, and have had mercifully little contact with it since, most people 45ish and below are the same. Stuff should have to be sold in sensible metric measures and just as they always have been able to, people can also put whatever daft archaic measurement alongside it they wish. Pints and miles excluded obviously.