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2 hours ago, coprolite said:

I hope we don't go back because i've very little idea how many chains are in a furlong or bob in half a crown. 

According to fans of the imperial system, metric is bad because 10 is only divisible by 2 & 5. They contend that as imperial tends to have  a greater number of divisors, this makes it somehow better. Multiples of 10 and having to use decimal parts of units are a very bad thing and probably foreign to boot.

BTW, there are 10 chains in a furlong, and 2.5 shillings in a half-crown

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2 hours ago, Jacksgranda said:

 I don't think I knew even when I was supposed to know. There were 8 furlongs in a mile (probably still are, I suppose), but I don't think I ever needed to use chains, although "chainage" rings a bell from my student days. 

There used to be 8 furlongs in a mile but they reduced it after a lot of complaints. It was reduced to 7, for the petrol...

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30 minutes ago, lichtgilphead said:

According to fans of the imperial system, metric is bad because 10 is only divisible by 2 & 5. They contend that as imperial tends to have  a greater number of divisors, this makes it somehow better. Multiples of 10 and having to use decimal parts of units are a very bad thing and probably foreign to boot.

BTW, there are 10 chains in a furlong, and 2.5 shillings in a half-crown

Time was not decimalised . 

12/24 hours, 12 months. 

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4 minutes ago, HeartsOfficialMoaner said:

Time was not decimalised . 

12/24 hours, 12 months. 

Perhaps time is not decimal, but it is not part of the imperial system either. How can a coherent "system" have one unit (the month) that is defined in 4 different ways and another unit (the year) that is a different length every 4 years?

The unit of time is the second, which is one of the 7 base units of the Système international  (the metric system). The second is currently defined as exactly 9 192 631 770 periods of radiation of a specific caesium atom.

That definition is just a little bit more accurate than the historic definition of "roughly 1/86400 of a day, give or take a bit"

Time is metric.

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Perhaps time is not decimal, but it is not part of the imperial system either. How can a coherent "system" have one unit (the month) that is defined in 4 different ways and another unit (the year) that is a different length every 4 years?
The unit of time is the second, which is one of the 7 base units of the Système international  (the metric system). The second is currently defined as exactly 9 192 631 770 periods of radiation of a specific caesium atom.
That definition is just a little bit more accurate than the historic definition of "roughly 1/86400 of a day, give or take a bit"
Time is metric.
Well, depending on the velocity of the observer, relatively
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6 hours ago, NUMBER 7 said:

For 27 years, our company have sent an artic to Northern Ireland to deliver to our customer base there once a week. For 27 years all you had to do was book the truck on Stenna or P&O there and back. We are not sending over Food Spirits Tobacco just products for use in the Vehicle Building and Engineering Industries.

Since 1st January the increased paperwork between online declarations, adding EORI numbers of Consignor and Consignee, Commodity Codes, obtaining shipping approvals via Government Gateway, details of packages and weights to each Consignee, has become a full time job for someone three days a week. It is ridiculous. We are travelling from one part of the UK 🇬🇧 to another, there should be no need for all this shit, all we as a company want to do is provide a service and try and make some money.

If this is what happens as a result of Brexit, god forbid the mess there would be if we ever became independent 

Yeh... Scotland did not want Brexit. It is a piece of shambolic idiocy on a historic scale imposed on us by a hostile foreign power.

Never mind. When we get back in the EU again as an independent state we will be able to trade again with NI without any tariff.👍

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27 minutes ago, git-intae-thum said:

Yeh... Scotland did not want Brexit. It is a piece of shambolic idiocy on a historic scale imposed on us by a hostile foreign power.

Never mind. When we get back in the EU again as an independent state we will be able to trade again with NI without any tariff.👍

Of course Brexit was a piece of idiocy but you have to be an utter simpleton to say that Scotland didn't want it.  Scotland was never asked - and why would 'it' have been?

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4 hours ago, The_Kincardine said:

Of course Brexit was a piece of idiocy but you have to be an utter simpleton to say that Scotland didn't want it.  Scotland was never asked - and why would 'it' have been?

Weird. I could swear I voted on it, as did a huge number of people I know. Who all live in Scotland. I also remember the results being reported by each local authority. All of who rejected leaving the EU by varying degrees. 

To try to deny the people of Scotland did not want Brexit because iT wAs A uK vOtE is a truly idiotic hill to die on. I suppose we therefore cannot be surprised that you have chosen it. 

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13 hours ago, Stormzy said:

Why do you sign off your posts?

I like it. 

Stormzy. 

It's a hang-over from old message boards that had limited search functionalities.

If I put my nom de plume in I could find my posts a bit quicker.

I also think it's a bit more polite.

Yours, thank you for asking 😉

aDONis

 

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6 hours ago, The_Kincardine said:

Of course Brexit was a piece of idiocy but you have to be an utter simpleton to say that Scotland didn't want it.  Scotland was never asked - and why would 'it' have been?

Quite the entitlement for the 1.6million or so Scots to claim to speak for the other 4million +. 

Imagine trying to argue against the idea it was a UK wide vote when the same Scottish electorate expressed their wishes to vote as a UK collective 2 years prior...

I wonder what the excuse would have been if Britain chose to remain in the EU. 

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13 hours ago, Antlion said:

 

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I rest my case. And that is one creepy man.

But my point still stands. After independence, who will WM dig up to negotiate with Scotland? Brexit has shown them to be out of their depth in anything that involves a piece of paper.

 

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For 27 years, our company have sent an artic to Northern Ireland to deliver to our customer base there once a week. For 27 years all you had to do was book the truck on Stenna or P&O there and back. We are not sending over Food Spirits Tobacco just products for use in the Vehicle Building and Engineering Industries.
Since 1st January the increased paperwork between online declarations, adding EORI numbers of Consignor and Consignee, Commodity Codes, obtaining shipping approvals via Government Gateway, details of packages and weights to each Consignee, has become a full time job for someone three days a week. It is ridiculous. We are travelling from one part of the UK [emoji636] to another, there should be no need for all this shit, all we as a company want to do is provide a service and try and make some money.
If this is what happens as a result of Brexit, god forbid the mess there would be if we ever became independent 
Your last paragraph is curious. If we are to be subject to a shitfest, surely it is preferable to have some control in your own part of it rather than rely on a cabal of fools.
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17 hours ago, NUMBER 7 said:

For 27 years, our company have sent an artic to Northern Ireland to deliver to our customer base there once a week. For 27 years all you had to do was book the truck on Stenna or P&O there and back. We are not sending over Food Spirits Tobacco just products for use in the Vehicle Building and Engineering Industries.

Since 1st January the increased paperwork between online declarations, adding EORI numbers of Consignor and Consignee, Commodity Codes, obtaining shipping approvals via Government Gateway, details of packages and weights to each Consignee, has become a full time job for someone three days a week. It is ridiculous. We are travelling from one part of the UK 🇬🇧 to another, there should be no need for all this shit, all we as a company want to do is provide a service and try and make some money.

If this is what happens as a result of Brexit, god forbid the mess there would be if we ever became independent 

Zero sympathy, I’m afraid. It’s hard to sympathise with someone complaining about being served up a dish of hot shite when, with brown-smeared lips and faecal breath, they insist on remaining in the restaurant for more.

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Belgium’s British supermarket Stonemanor has announced that it will have to close both premises this coming weekend due to depleted stock levels caused by import issues.

This temporary measure comes as a result of issues in the supply chain for the stores, which have long served brits in Belgium everything from Irn-Bru and Dandelion and Burdock to frozen goods and toiletries they miss from home.

Thanks to a connection with a butcher in Ireland, sausages, bacon and black and white pudding will be back in the store as of 9 February.

This news follows a remarkably widespread cry in Brussels as many tried to get haggis – love it or hate it – in time for Burns night, but found supplies lacking.

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