Sad Days - Say goodbye to imperial

First they came for the pint Crown Stamp:

Beer Glasses: Approval Marks

Mr. Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether EU rules allow the Crown stamp to be used alongside the CE stamp on pint glasses. [123541]

Jim Fitzpatrick: No. Under the Measuring Instruments Directive (2004/22/EC) which entered into force on 30 October 2006 the CE mark has replaced the Crown stamp to guarantee the accuracy of pint measures including pint glasses. The directive does not permit the use of any other marking on the measure.

Mr. Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans the Government have to remove the Crown stamp from pint glasses. [123542]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The Weights and Measures (Capacity Serving Measures) Regulations 2006
26 Feb 2007 : Column 1054W
(Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 1264) which implement the Measuring Instruments Directive (SI 2006 No 1264) came into force on 30 October 2006 and pint glasses which have been placed on the market since that date have been CE marked in accordance with these regulations. Pint glasses which were marked with the Crown stamp and placed on the market before that date remain lawful. There is therefore no requirement to remove existing Crown stamped glasses from use

Well of course not, as glasses being glass will break/be phased out in the next few years. What has been noticed in other EU nations is that when euro measures come into play other systems of measurement are phased out: link to Hansard

Now add to this that one certain MP has helped to draft this legislation and has the bared faced cheek to offer support to Camra: link to CAMRA" [PDF].

As DK says in this piece http://devilskitchen.me.uk/2007/03/goodbye-to-crown.html
, its MP Giles Chichester—who authored the report that led to the Directive in the first place.

Add to this the fact that in a few years it will be illegal for imported goods to show measurements in anything other than metric. Yep no handy dandy conversion charts, its all EU or nothing matey. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws/eu-units.html

Give them a few years and the gallon and pint shall be next, reminds me I must dig out 1984 and give that another read:...Find it here George Orwell book 1984 that predicts the EU uberstate.

**Eu wankers decide we can keep our imperial, the serfs in Brussels have tossed us plebs a bone to keep us quiet. Fuck the EU - cunts of the first order the lot of them. They agree that we can have our imperial system after 2010, the arrogant fucking cunts. The bare faced fucking nerve to think that they can run our lines even down to telling us how we can measure things. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,2075786,00.html

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"...The old man whom he had followed into the pub was standing at the bar, having some kind of altercation with the barman, a large, stout, hook-nosed young man with enormous forearms. A knot of others, standing round with glasses in their hands, were watching the scene.

'I arst you civil enough, didn't I?' said the old man, straightening his shoulders pugnaciously. 'You telling me you ain't got a pint mug in the 'ole bleeding boozer?'

'And what in hell's name is a pint?' said the barman, leaning forward with the tips of his fingers on the counter.

' 'Ark at 'im! Calls 'isself a barman and don't know what a pint is! Why, a pint's the 'alf of a quart, and there's four quarts to the gallon. 'Ave to teach you the A, B, C next.'

'Never heard of 'em,' said the barman shortly. 'Litre and half litres - that's all we serve. There's the glasses on the shelf in front of you.'

'I likes a pint,' persisted the old man. 'You could 'a drawed me off a pint easy enough. We didn't 'ave these bleeding litres when I was a young man.'

'When you were a young man we were all living in the tree-tops,' said the barman, with a glance at the other customers.

There was a shout of laughter, and the uneasiness caused by Winston's entry seemed to disappear. The old man's white-stubbed face had flushed pink. He turned away, muttering to himself, and bumped into Winston. Winston caught him gently by the arm.

'May I offer you a drink?' he said.

N.B.- Imperial measures: Thats feet, inches, yards, miles, pints, quarts, pounds, stones, roods, poles,acres, chains, ounces, furlongs, shillings etc.
EG:‘Forty Foot’ ( or 13 yd, 1ft) is around 13 metres. (A yard is a bit like a metre, only better).

And finally on a non related note Camra are running a campaign called Cyclops - this is nothing to do with our monovisioned tax and spend Chancellor - instead it is about getting the jaded public up off their usual nitro keg larger and onto real ale instead:cyclops

Main camra site can be found here

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