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Re:Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas by stordoff on Sunday February 24, 2019 @06:11PM (#19241262)
> I'm surprised, but thankful, that the Brexit lunacy hasn't (yet) brought calls to return to Imperial and £sd. :)

Unfortunately:

Return of pounds and ounces? Britain might allow firms to use imperial measures after Brexit https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/return-pounds-ou...

EXCLUSIVE: Experts Slam "Bonkers" Proposal To Re-Introduce Imperial Measurements After Brexit, In Letters To Government http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/04/exclusive-experts-slam-bonk...

Now that we are to be a sovereign nation again, we must bring back imperial units https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/01/now-sovereign-na...

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Re:Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas by NeedMoreTea on Sunday February 24, 2019 @06:52PM (#19241471)
Sigh. Thankfully I'd missed that. Not surprised it was Heffer, I think he'd like to send us back to about 1912. Gizmodo piece was fairly entertaining though. :)
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Re:Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas by jen20 on Sunday February 24, 2019 @08:52PM (#19242116)
Fortunately the post-boomer “sanity” generation are not going to accept imperial units other than pint (for beer), regardless of what people pining for a past in which they were relevant may want.
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