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gawdi
09-11-07, 03:09 PM
Whilst you lot are rattling on about 'shirtlifters, mincers and wogs' and I presume DVT is asleep or has topped himself.... it was announced this morning that our beloved pint is saved from those gastly EU beaurocrats.....

Unfortunately, the EU cave in on metrification came too late for the scots who lost out on their 'nip' measure of whiskey............

But we can still manfully ask for a pint when we march up to the bar, rather than asking for a shirtlifting '500 ml'

And theres more - we can get a lb of bananas again, prices for pertrol can be shown price as per gallon (although I suspect it wont be), we get the 25 yard line back in rugby - rather than the 22 metre line, we keep the furlong markers for horseracing and you cna get your dealers to supply your coke by the ounce rather than grams.....

:alc:

JT
09-11-07, 03:14 PM
I was quite prepared to go to the pub and ask for a 568 of stella :(

redwhiteandblue
09-11-07, 03:27 PM
Can we go back to having petrol sold in gallons at the price it is in litres now?

MMemmer
09-11-07, 03:31 PM
Gawd, not being able to have ordered a pint, well that just would never have been right but the very scary thought is does that meant that politicians are going to start making sense?

-HF
09-11-07, 03:40 PM
not surprising, currently the EU has way more urgent issues to attend to. the noise level of music, especially symphony orchestras, after an African Okapi died from the stress an opera rehearsal caused it.

gawdi
09-11-07, 04:51 PM
Gawd, not being able to have ordered a pint, well that just would never have been right but the very scary thought is does that meant that politicians are going to start making sense?

Nope...... we're getting a series of nice little EU measures - aimed at softening us up in the UK and making us think that the EU isnt really that bad - if fact its rather warm and cuddly... and that having a EU constitution wouldnt really be that bad an idea......

Will be interesting to see what else they give us before we're given the opportunity to tell them to shove this consitution/treat up where the sun dont shine..........

gawdi
09-11-07, 05:09 PM
I was quite prepared to go to the pub and ask for a 568 of stella :(

Youd be short changing your self... the actual conversion is: 1 pint =0.568261485 litres

JT
09-11-07, 06:08 PM
Youd be short changing your self... the actual conversion is: 1 pint =0.568261485 litres

I wasnt including the lime :gaylords:

gawdi
09-11-07, 06:14 PM
I wasnt including the lime :gaylords:

forgot you took lime in it... :gaylords:

smoothballs
09-12-07, 05:41 PM
time to rise up against the EU bureaucrats! :communist: