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Nope
3B, 1B 2W, 0, 3B, 1W
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I wouldn't post anything that can be the solution, not for a million dollar 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The elephant in the room ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Nelly gave it away 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I thought it was going to be one of those ones where everyone could see it but nobody wanted to be the first to say...
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Clickety[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It's censored, so I don't see the big deal. Don't remember you posting it before, though... Ooops, sorry! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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No harm, no foul. I found it to be funny, and did not find it offensive. 
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The metric system is conquering Britain, inch by inch.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Oh deity/higher being - if we vote to leave the EU, the nutters will want the Imperial system back.
Let's raise 3 fluid scruples / 1/8thfl. oz. to metric!
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Keith Barrow wrote: Let's raise 3 fluid scruples / 1/8thfl. oz. to metric!
To be fair, it's a lot easier to measure out 1/2, 1/4, 1/8th or 1/16th of something than 0.1
And if we stay in the EU, our beer measures will probably be reduce from a pint (568ml) to 500ml 
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: And if we stay in the EU, our beer measures will probably be reduce from a pint (568ml) to 500ml
It wouldn't be because of the EU, it would be because of the pubs selling less beer to the same price. While blaming EU.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: less beer to the same a higher price
- AND blaming the EU at the same time as you said!
FTFY! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It was a joke
But you probably weren't aware that people have been prosecuted here in the UK for using imperial measurements Metric Martyrs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^] - ultimately because of the EEC/EU weights and measures directive.
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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TBH, goods can be sold in any quantity. The directive is to do with pricing to metric units and that the metric measurement should also be available.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: The directive is to do with pricing to metric units and that the metric measurement should also be available.
So basically changing what people have used here for centuries, at pain of prosecution/loss of livelihood? That's progress, I guess? 
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: It was a joke
I thought as much, I'm just a very cynical person.
And as for the other part is just about fighting windmills.
What's the problem with having a mark on the glass saying 568ml when you sell by the pint?
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: What's the problem with having a mark on the glass saying 568ml when you sell by the pint?
For one, it's easier to ask for a pint after a few pints.. 
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Have you ever heard anyone try to order 568ml of beer ever?
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In Europe and Russia I've ordered half litres.. Don't try and take our extra 68ml away from us here though!
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Maybe someone tried to but didn't live to tell about it 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I can see that you're familiar with our public houses.. you should try the ones in North Wales
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I like the whole "metric martys" thing. Poor little Englanders standing up to the EU bully-boys, at least that's how it was pitched. Every time Thoburn's greengrocers appeared on TV, Steve Thoburn was dressed like a barrow-boy, in front of a pathetic little cart monging his costers and complaining about the EU not allowing "Great British Pounds and Ounces. That was the image. In reality Thoburn's basically has a town-wide chain of several shops and a couple of barrows selling to passers-by. How do I know this - the warehouse is not more than 5 mins walk where I'm sitting now. It's well known locally the family is minted too, far from being the humble men-of the people shown, Steve Thoburn's son drives a Bentley, with a "THOBURN" private plate.
He wasn't prosecuted for selling in pounds and ounces - he was prosecuted for his inability to sell in metric too, you can still go to the shop and buy a quarter of sweets - they'll say they have to sell you 125g. This is BS, there is nothing stopping them selling you 113g as long as it can be read from the equipment, they simply don't understand the law.
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