Butcher Starts Selling Meat In Imperial Pounds

[trt]

I never really got used to the new system, especially measurements, so hope its allowed back for us oldies?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/683451/Brexit-EU-European-Union-Referendum-Grattons-Butchers-Devon-Britain-Metric-imperial-pounds

[naomi24]

//Butcher Starts Selling Meat In Imperial Pounds//

That made me laugh. Did we ever really stop using imperial pounds?

[Cloverjo]

I know the thread has moved on a bit since hc's post about babies being weighed in pounds and ounces. They're not; for at least 24 years they've been weighed in grams, but no one knows what that is really, so the midwife gives a conversion to pounds and ounces.

[Old_Geezer]

Not changed here but it confuses the young server behind the counter who doesn't use English units.

[Peter Pedant]

// My trousers and shirts are still measured in inches, and babies weighed in pounds and ounces//

babies should be weighed in kilograms

http://metricviews.org.uk/2009/12/nhs-risking-patients-lives-with-imperial-scales/

I cant find the stockport coroners case where a child was given twice the dose of X [ and died ] because they thought the child was 13kg and not 13lb. Under one year of age and no one thought to think oo-er 13kg is a bit heavy for a 6 mo child