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[Martin_1962]

Don't tell them that car wheel diameters (for some VERY peculiar reason ) are specified in inches!!!

And PCD in mm

Try modelling.

I model in a scale of roughly 76.2/1

or 4mm of model = 1 foot

As the real ones were mainly imperial - easy conversion

[Lizzie_Zoom]

On another thread the issue of decimalisation was discussed, and I certainly made the point how it made commercial transactions so much easier.

So I fail to see why we should not have all goods sold in metric quantities, including eggs.  I already buy bottled and canned drinks, meat, marg and butter in metric packs, along with fuel and lengths of wood or fabric. Builders and engineers work in metric quantities.  It makes the calculation of actual cost so much easier, and when shopping I can look out for the best deals per unit.

Why should eggs, and milk for that matter, be any different and not be in metric quantities? 

As another issue our kids are taught in metric at school, as they have been for decades now.

Thank God in 1971 this country was forward thinking enough to go decimal with it's coinage.  Let's be forward thinking now and go completely metric.  

[Kevin Wood]

I must be missing something here: What madman would weigh eggs anyway? :-/

Can't remember ever seeing a recipe that called for "250g of Egg".

Kevin

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I must be missing something here: What madman would weigh eggs anyway? :-/

Can't remember ever seeing a recipe that called for "250g of Egg".

Kevin

You don't of course weigh eggs, no more than have a receipy dictating weight of eggs Kevin.

But when you are packaging, costing, retailing and purchasing eggs it is far easier and commercially sensible to deal in metric calculation.

[Dishevelled Den]

I must be missing something here: What madman would weigh eggs anyway? :-/

Can't remember ever seeing a recipe that called for "250g of Egg".

Kevin

You don't of course weigh eggs, no more than have a receipy dictating weight of eggs Kevin.

But when you are packaging, costing, retailing and purchasing eggs it is far easier and commercially sensible to deal in metric calculation.

Perhaps they could be sold in 10's instead

[Dishevelled Den]

On another thread the issue of decimalisation was discussed, and I certainly made the point how it made commercial transactions so much easier.

So I fail to see why we should not have all goods sold in metric quantities, including eggs.  I already buy bottled and canned drinks, meat, marg and butter in metric packs, along with fuel and lengths of wood or fabric. Builders and engineers work in metric quantities.  It makes the calculation of actual cost so much easier, and when shopping I can look out for the best deals per unit.

Why should eggs, and milk for that matter, be any different and not be in metric quantities? 

As another issue our kids are taught in metric at school, as they have been for decades now.

Thank God in 1971 this country was forward thinking enough to go decimal with it's coinage.  Let's be forward thinking now and go completely metric.  

Setting aside my views about the 'EU' as it's presently constituted and where it seems to be heading, I'm more than happy to agree with you E on your concern about the 'half-way house' approach to this.

Either we have a system based on the metric scale or we don't - this hybrid we currently see is confusing if nothing else.  The change should have been made years ago.


 

[Kevin Wood]

I can just imagine the spectacle of the guy at the deli counter cracking eggs into the pan and watching the scales.

Whatever they're smoking in Brussels, I want some.

Kevin

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I must be missing something here: What madman would weigh eggs anyway? :-/

Can't remember ever seeing a recipe that called for "250g of Egg".

Kevin

You don't of course weigh eggs, no more than have a receipy dictating weight of eggs Kevin.

But when you are packaging, costing, retailing and purchasing eggs it is far easier and commercially sensible to deal in metric calculation.

Perhaps they could be sold in 10's instead

Exactly my point Zulu, and why not?

[Banjax]

Egg-zactly, Liz, surely?

[Richie London]

if each egg weighs 50g does this mean we have to buy a box of 20 at a time, a box of 6 lasts me 2 weeks if tom doesnt stay

[Dishevelled Den]

I must be missing something here: What madman would weigh eggs anyway? :-/

Can't remember ever seeing a recipe that called for "250g of Egg".

Kevin

You don't of course weigh eggs, no more than have a receipy dictating weight of eggs Kevin.

But when you are packaging, costing, retailing and purchasing eggs it is far easier and commercially sensible to deal in metric calculation.

Having declared my support for the metric system I'm still trying to understand why an item such as (in this case) eggs can't be sold by numerical quantity rather than weight as the system embraces both measurements.

Does it really make that much difference to packaging, costing and so on?


Sorry E, I've just seen your earlier post   I'm 5 minutes behind everyone else as I'm typing in a semi recumbent position.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

On another thread the issue of decimalisation was discussed, and I certainly made the point how it made commercial transactions so much easier.

So I fail to see why we should not have all goods sold in metric quantities, including eggs.  I already buy bottled and canned drinks, meat, marg and butter in metric packs, along with fuel and lengths of wood or fabric. Builders and engineers work in metric quantities.  It makes the calculation of actual cost so much easier, and when shopping I can look out for the best deals per unit.

Why should eggs, and milk for that matter, be any different and not be in metric quantities? 

As another issue our kids are taught in metric at school, as they have been for decades now.

Thank God in 1971 this country was forward thinking enough to go decimal with it's coinage.  Let's be forward thinking now and go completely metric.  

Setting aside my views about the 'EU' as it's presently constituted and where it seems to be heading, I'm more than happy to agree with you E on your concern about the 'half-way house' approach to this.

Either we have a system based on the metric scale or we don't - this hybrid we currently see is confusing if nothing else.  The change should have been made years ago.


 

 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I must be missing something here: What madman would weigh eggs anyway? :-/

Can't remember ever seeing a recipe that called for "250g of Egg".

Kevin

You don't of course weigh eggs, no more than have a receipy dictating weight of eggs Kevin.

But when you are packaging, costing, retailing and purchasing eggs it is far easier and commercially sensible to deal in metric calculation.

Having declared my support for the metric system I'm still trying to understand why an item such as (in this case) eggs can't be sold by numerical quantity rather than weight as the system embraces both measurements.

Does it really make that much difference to packaging, costing and so on?

??  Sorry Zulu, I do not understand your point.  Eggs ARE sold in numerical quantity - 6s, 12s, 18s 
 
Those quantities I suggest should be 5s, 10s, 20s

[Richie London]

if i buy a door for a job i usually go for feet and inches
i.e. 6'6x2'6 most builders do but measuring distance i go for the easiest figure  which could be 6ft dead on rather than 1828mm, which is the easiest to remember when you have to go and cut a piece of wood. a lot of young people on site dont know how many 1/16ths in an inch, its great confusing them 

[Dishevelled Den]

I must be missing something here: What madman would weigh eggs anyway? :-/

Can't remember ever seeing a recipe that called for "250g of Egg".

Kevin

You don't of course weigh eggs, no more than have a receipy dictating weight of eggs Kevin.

But when you are packaging, costing, retailing and purchasing eggs it is far easier and commercially sensible to deal in metric calculation.

Having declared my support for the metric system I'm still trying to understand why an item such as (in this case) eggs can't be sold by numerical quantity rather than weight as the system embraces both measurements.

Does it really make that much difference to packaging, costing and so on?

??  Sorry Zulu, I do not understand your point.  Eggs ARE sold in numerical quantity - 6s, 12s, 18s 
 
Those quantities I suggest should be 5s, 10s, 20s

I agree with that E as it seems to more sensible than trying to sell them by weight which is what the aritcle was suggesting these propopsals to be.