Yet more gutter press rabble rousing and it’s once more worked.
There is no question of the acre being in some way universally “banned”, it’s simply harmonisation of weights and measures across the EU and there’s NOTHING WRONG in doing that.
If someone wants to sell fruit in pounds and ounces there’s nothing stopping him, all that he must do is show the equivalent prices for the metric weight as well.
It’s a GOOD thing since it allows fair and ready comparison to be made across the whole of Europe.
It also ensures that retailers who sell only in metric amounts, very much simpler for buyer and seller, isn’t wrong footed by some guy flogging in Imperial and actually charging more.
So it is with the acre.
If I want to buy land in France and ask for the size in acres they would look at me as if I were talking in a foreign language, which would be exactly what I would be doing.
So for a Frenchman coming here and wanting to compare prices, faced with acres and hectares he also would be at least confused.
This way if a seller wants to describe an area of land in acres he is absolutely at liberty to do so, he simply has to show the equivalent area in hectares as well, and the deal must be recorded in hectares if a sale takes place.
So where’s the problems?
It’s a good move and in the right direction.
But we’re not alone in the standardisation of measurements to the CGS base.
Take as one example (of many similar) Norway and Sweden. Up until 1970 when the metric system was introduced you’d find the skrpel, the linje, and the tomme for linear measurements, usually for wood.
Worst of all since it caught me out one night is the infamous Norwegian Mile. It was around 8 UK miles as best as I can remember.
Are they bitching about such things?
No.
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Originally Posted by Hartlepool:
Shouldn't the French and other Continentals have to show all their weights,measures,including the Acre in both metric and imperial.seems fair?
Why?
What’s the justification?
WE have joined THEM, not the other way around.
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Quite right Bear. And the whole of Europe should adopt English as its official language to avoid misunderstandings (who needs medieval left overs like German anyway?) and while we're at it let's harmonise religions and all pray to the one true God (as decided by the EU Commission/Muslim Council) and start driving on the right from tomorrow morning, starting with lorries. The point is not that metric is replacing imperial but that it is being forced on us by a foreign agency, like all of the other new rules and regulations that have been handed down from the Anglophobe EU via the Nulabour puppet government.
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Originally Posted by Popeye:
Quite right Bear. And the whole of Europe should adopt English as its official language to avoid misunderstandings (who needs medieval left overs like German anyway?) and while we're at it let's harmonise religions and all pray to the one true God (as decided by the EU Commission/Muslim Council) and start driving on the right from tomorrow morning, starting with lorries. The point is not that metric is replacing imperial but that it is being forced on us by a foreign agency, like all of the other new rules and regulations that have been handed down from the Anglophobe EU via the Nulabour puppet government.
It’s
not "a foreign agency", it’s the EU and we are a member state of the European Union.
As for driving on the right, why not? It would make a great deal of sense, and in practice in official circles English IS the modern day Lingua Franca.
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