UK drops plans for use of imperial measuring system | RTE
The UK government has said it had dropped its plan to start selling in imperial measures after a consultation revealed 99% support for keeping the metric system.
The fact that the brexiteers considered this is just mind boggling.
The fact that 98.7 percent of over 100k people could agree on anything is amazing to me.
Holy shit the pint of wine measure is hilarious
They're definitely doing that to present as a success story and save face with the red faced express reader demographic.
Wahey, some bottles might contain an extra double shot of wine!
Not that I imagine anything was stopping wine makers from selling bottles that size, just not calling it a pint.
Edit: okay they couldn't before, but I still don't see many jumping at the opportunity to retool their bottling for a weird size they can only sell here
Standard bottles of wine are generally 750ml tho. So a pint would be less.
The current small bottles are 187ml (personal?) and 375ml (half/demi).
So, 568ml just doesn't fit. And I have no idea who would actually produce them.
Especially when the 500ml measure already legally exists—y'know that bottle size you never see because what's the point of it
As a confused American, why does 187ml size exist? My confusion is not with the metric system, I'm fluentish. But... Why so small? I don't think I've ever seen a bottle of wine smaller than 500ml, and even that is pretty teeny. That's the size of a water bottle. Am I just not shopping at the right liquor stores, or is this a British thing to do shots of wine?
1/3 pint is 189 ml, so basically a glass of wine at 1/4 a bottle is a third of a pint. It's pretty much the sweet spot where metric and imperial meet for volume measurements.
TLDR, pint sized wine bottle is the best we'll ever get from Brexit
I haven't looked this up, but I'm willing to bet that, just like every other "Brexit Freedom" they've shouted about, there was nothing stopping this from happening before Brexit.
See: bendy bananas, COVID quick rollout etc etc etc
Every. Single. Time.
Don't forget about the blue passports!
What a shock /s
