UK drops plans for use of imperial measuring system | RTE
UK drops plans for use of imperial measuring system | RTE
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The fact that the brexiteers considered this is just mind boggling.
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The fact that 98.7 percent of over 100k people could agree on anything is amazing to me.
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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TLDR, pint sized wine bottle is the best we'll ever get from Brexit
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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!
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What a shock /s
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