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mistakoala | 11 years ago

I wonder if a successful TTIP agreement would be the catalyst for this? It's inexplicable that the EU/ EEA would allow for non-metric goods to freely flow into the market.

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hoggle|11 years ago

I'm all for going fully metric but a failed TTIP agreement would actually be something worth losing some space probes over.

smackfu|11 years ago

What's a non-metric good? Isn't it the labelling that makes something metric or not?

mistakoala|11 years ago

Is labelling not a good?

happyscrappy|11 years ago

Should it also be illegal for the UK to teach Imperial units? I find the European attitude that government should ban everything they don't like perplexing.

lmm|11 years ago

> Should it also be illegal for the UK to teach Imperial units?

Yes. It's a waste of children's time (and there is a massive market failure in education, so laws are the only way to make changes).

mistakoala|11 years ago

No, it shouldn't. As much as I also dislike the Continental love of the ban hammer, I'm not sure what it has to with this.