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Monday, December 19, 2005

Taking the pizz-a

Source: Neil Herron

Just remind me who runs this country again?

Pizza Hut are in the process of phasing in metric measurements for their 950 restaurants in preparation for an EU ruling due to take effect from 2009 which says that pizza's must be sold in metric measurements instead of imperial.

This is getting pathetic, pubs will be serving half litres of beer before long and roadsigns will be showing measurements in metres and kilometres instead of yards and miles.

I don't understand the EU's obsession with abolishing imperial measurements in favour of metric. When I went to primary school we had two different types of maths. We had mathematics which included metric and we had practical maths which included imperial measurements.

We've had imperial measurements for hundreds of years, everybody understands them. I don't see how anyone can justify confusing 90% of the population for the sake of changing how we measure things.