woodenhead

Probably intended to make himself popular with the nice Mr. Murdoch.

Cue some opinion column just before the next election: "THE SUN SAYS - VOTE FOR THE BLOND W_N_ER AND KEEP US AWAY FROM THOSE PESKY FROGGIES! UP Y**RS MACRON!!"

Of course, it's always possible that Murdoch might instruct his editors to be rather less restrained with "their" opinions. (Well, he might.)

It's also possible that I might be very much mistaken ... .

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...even remember buying stuff in lb / oz, pints / fl.oz...

Like many other people, we buy our milk in pints.  Although marked in litres per regulations, lots of supermarkets sell 1, 2, 4 and 6 pint bottles.

And iirc, wood widths/thicknesses have only recently changed to metric - we've been using mixed metric/imperial systems for decades e.g. 2.4m long 2"x1" prepared.

Yes it's messy, but people always seem to cope...

We've done OK with our hybrid metric/Imperial measurements so far and Imperial measurements haven't been taught in schools since the 1970s.

Yet another "Dead Cat" to distract from PartyGate and our PM's personal life.