London to Brussels: You Guys Can Suck It!

EU ends 'pointless battle' to make UK metric - Times Online

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The European Union has finally admitted defeat in its long-running and "pointless" campaign to outlaw British pints, miles and ounces.

The decision to abandon plans to replace traditional imperial weights and measures with metric units was announced by Gunter Verheugen, Europe’s Industry Commissioner, who conceded: “This is a pointless battle. . . there was absolutely no point at all in trying to get rid of the particular heritage of one member state.”

After a wide-ranging consultation, European commissioners agreed unanimously that beer, roads and apples could be measured in the UK by whatever unit local people choose to use.

Score one for diversity?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Tell me why you guys still insist on using Centigrade instead of Kelvin.

Besides, the reason they gave up on this nonsense is primarily because it's a waste of resources to prosecute guys for selling bananas in pounds.

There's nowhere I can't reach.