Today, the buses are back on the road, so rather than using the car or walking, I was able to take a trip to a local market where I spotted several traders had boycotted kilogram pricing for pound weight charging.
One butcher's labels looked as if they were originals from when we last used pound weights. You just get used to kilogrammes, then we go back to pounds :-)
But it's not the future.
Certainly not bus usage in South Yorkshire
I suppose the trick would be to pay them in some form of old currency. I have an old £10 paper note in the drawer. I wonder what they would say :-)
Are they still playing the old trick of having nice class 1 fruit on display but when you ask for a pound of coxes or whatever, they reach underneath for the box of class 2 manky crap.
It's not legal tender.
Yeah, not legal tender for not legal goods. That was the point.
Class 1 doesn't signify quality - just it's had the taste removed from the fruit!
I'm 68 and I was taught metres/kg/litres etc. at school and have used these units during my working life. Nothing to do with the EU and no reason to change just because of Brexit.
I assume the prices were in pounds shillings and pence
I bet the prices weren't from when we used lbs :-)
It doesn't help when buses take non-paying passengers like pensioners.
The term legal tender doesn't refer to what you can use to buy things, only what can be used to settle a legal debt. However shops only accept what they want to and I don't think any would be likely to accept such old notes - although they can still be redeemed for their face value in modern notes, so they still retain their value ... it is just an extra bit of hassle to exchange them.
I was taught entirely in metric, but as imperial was (and still is for many things, although disguised as metric) in use, I learned to use many imperial units. I still use both today, applying whichever is most suitable - for instance a door is 2'6" x 6'6" rather than 762mm x 1982mm and the fittings for my compressor are 1/4" BSP and 3/8" BSP.
Although they were in use when I was a child, I was too young to be spending more that a few pence on some sweets and so never had to deal with L-s-d.
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It has never been illegal to display imperial weight. However, it must be shown alongside the metric weight and not be more prominent than it.
L-s-d is also Livre-shilling-denarius ISTR, meaning pounds-shillings-pence.
Wow! Three languages in one sentence. Respect! :-) (librae, solidi, denarii)
SteveW wrote on 03/07/2022 :
The Livre was equiavalent to one pound weight of silver, hence the pound.
Colin Bignell explained :
There was not one single metric weight equivalent to be seen anywhere.
I'm ten years younger and we were taught some imperial units at primary school, but I remember a big push with loads of the orange "going metric" leaflets being handed out
Not much of a point, how are the goods not legal?
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