Oh right, you took what I quoted literally. Good on you!
I wasn't suggesting the Swiss don't do re-runs... I was suggesting that WE shouldn't.
Indeed! (i didn't want to disappoint apk55 at the time)
Makes sense though.
You definitely cover them quicker.
I’d imagine rail. Purely for the reason that there’d be less public outrage to get through first...Very true!
It's not that I don't like the mph or having anything against its use, it's simply that moving to full metrication is a logical progression of our long-time partial metrication.
I wonder if road or rail will go over first?
I didn’t know that. Is it mph on those systems because of the amount of cross boarder workings onto mph based systems then?
Depends where you live. Starting in the 1970s, most of England has seen 3 (two European and an Alternative Vote one). London, NE England, Scotland and Wales have had between one and three devolution referenda on top, and Northern Ireland have had an extra two themselves too.
That doesn't make sense. If a cup of tea was 2d, then you would get 12 cups from 2/- (or 10p). If it changed to 2p a cup, you would get 5 cups from 10p (or 2/-).
Metrication didn't cause some prices to rise, that was the result of unscrupulous businesses. The UK has had decimal currency since 1971 and there have been plenty of unannounced price rises in commodities since then. The media coined the term 'shrinkflation' to the practice of maintaining the package price whilst reducing the quantity of the item.
The story was told a long time ago, so I'm happy to be corrected on the actual numbers , but my point was that my grandfather felt slightly cheated at the changeover.
Most people were not ignorant. It made no difference how much you "engaged in the extensive public information campaign", when all the grocers eg charged the same in new pence as they did in old pence there was nothing you could do about it - unless what? You went on hunger strike? You trashed the shop?
I'm told that in the Dublin area the railway signs are in mph but the ATP system uses km/h.
I didn't write (or even intimate) that 'most people were ignorant'. Please read again what I actually wrote rather than getting indignant about what you think I wrote.
Had the majority of the shopping public familiarised themselves with the simple changes that metrication brought in prices, (selling in metric quantities came much later), retailers trying it on would have been called out a lot quicker and more often. Amongst the worst were market traders who with their 'NP' prices which like all market prices shifted around, were in my experience pulling fast ones in the casual environment that they trade in.
Me too, and AFAIK so were most of my family and friends, but as I wrote above, many didn't have a clue about the UK's new currency, partly because they had already decided that they didn't need to because they would stick with the old LSD money.
Well if you had taken notice of announcements in 2016 when the government introduced a flood levy to insurance to spread the cost over all householder insurance policies, you wouldn't have needed to ask the question. Here is a link to the history and some other information on the 2016 changes:
That's because they know that when 'people' can't be bothered to take notice of the news, changes in the law and public notices and information designed to help them, they will be the ones who less scrupulous businesses will target.
I can read and I did not say that you did say that most people were ignorant. You said "... so many people were ignorant ..." which could be anything from a few hundred to the entire population.
They were called out. It made no difference, like many other examples of "callings-out" of politicians and businesses that happen all the time but make no difference. The Man in the Street just has to take it on the chin, or walk away if that is an option.
)I wrote: "so many people were ignorant of the difference ...", which is nothing like saying that anybody was 'ignorant' per se. I've emboldened the relevant words to make it easier for you to see the context in which I used the word 'ignorant'. It is no more an insult to 'people' than saying that I am ignorant of the techniques of brain surgery. Please read sentences in full before looking to be offended, (on behalf of others of course).
