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Miles & kilometres: why do so many people still reference miles?

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    #92
    dubhthach
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    formerly scottish paddy wrote: »
    I have thought for a long time that Ireland should formally make an "Irish Pint" = 500ml. It could of course still be called a pint, but it would in effect be a metric measure, (and cut down on drinking!) :D

    No doubt said "metric pint" would carry same level of excise duty, so it's win-win situation for Enda and the lads.


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    #93
    L1011
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    dubhthach wrote: »
    No doubt said "metric pint" would carry same level of excise duty, so it's win-win situation for Enda and the lads.

    Excise is charged per hectolitre already.


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    #94
    dubhthach
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Going off topic here but I think even the most ardent republican would have to admit that Britain and Ireland share a lot of common heritage and nothing with most of Europe.

    Heritage? Such as? From what I can see Ireland fits into standard European model from the stone age right up until to now. Unsurprisingly genetically aside from our fellow islanders in Britain our closest relatives are the French (the english are more shifted towards the Dutch in comparison).

    People seem to forget that we had our customary measurements for distance (Irish mile) and area (Irish acre) up until relatively recently (3-4 generations ago).


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    #95
    Carawaystick
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    MYOB wrote: »
    Excise is charged per hectolitre already.

    Which isn't a SI unit...


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    #96
    mackerski
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    Carawaystick wrote: »
    Which isn't a SI unit...

    Indeed not, but I bet you could express it in simple multipliers of one if you really tried.


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    #97
    rab!dmonkey
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    Carawaystick wrote: »
    Which isn't a SI unit...
    The litre is a non-SI unit accepted for use with the SI. There's no reason why you couldn't use the prefix of your choosing with it either. This is all there in the SI Brochure, if you care to look.


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    #98
    Aard
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    This is probably the only thread where a similar gripe of mine fits in. Metric versus imperial units for area. I'm not necessarily talking about day to day use like x square ft of carpet for the sitting room, or farmers talking about acres of land. Legally, all land is sold or given planning permission using the metric system. However newspapers (IT I'm looking at you) will usually refer to office rents costing €40/sqft, or a plot of land being 2.47 acres, and even a development being x units/acre. You're lucky if they give a metric equivalent, and in many cases it will be incorrectly calculated. Every professional will use metric, unless they're very old school.


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    #99
    Carawaystick
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    Aard wrote: »
    This is probably the only thread where a similar gripe of mine fits in. Metric versus imperial units for area. I'm not necessarily talking about day to day use like x square ft of carpet for the sitting room, or farmers talking about acres of land. Legally, all land is sold or given planning permission using the metric system. However newspapers (IT I'm looking at you) will usually refer to office rents costing €40/sqft, or a plot of land being 2.47 acres, and even a development being x units/acre. You're lucky if they give a metric equivalent, and in many cases it will be incorrectly calculated. Every professional will use metric, unless they're very old school.

    But sher there's ten square feet in a square metre, tis the metric system I tells ya*



    *good enough for any fermi estimation and better than yards/metres equivalence



    I'm probably engineering too long to be dealing with ten to the power of something not divisible by 3, leaving too many digits to be worrying about.

    In France they use Ares as a unit of area of a house....

    Standards are great, there's so many to choose from.... ;)


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    #100
    SpaceTime
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    Enda could be remembered for reducing the size of the pint AND water metering! Quite a legacy!


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    #101
    marmurr1916
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Going off topic here but I think even the most ardent republican would have to admit that Britain and Ireland share a lot of common heritage and nothing with most of Europe.

    That's probably one of the most historically ignorant assertions I've ever read on this forum.


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    #102
    marmurr1916
    Registered Users Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭marmurr1916


    Empire o de Sun wrote: »
    From recollection, a short in the UK is 25 ml, in Ireland it is 35 ml
    1/2 a gil is 71 ml, are you drinking Irish doubles

    Damn right! :D


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