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In no particular order
Royal Family
Ed Sheran
Private Schools
Non dom status and tax avoidance
The introduction of a democratic electoral system in the UK
Right to roam
Big job to get rid of these though.
I think - with my sensible head on for a second really do, as a society, need to address the vast vast differences in wealth, (and the accumulation of wealth) of some of the richest land owners, and aristos in the UK.
There's really no good reason to let a largely medieval system persist.
Love of social disparity is the root of all evil.
Updated from 'love of money'.
Steve Wright in the Afternoon
Naked Attraction tele programme.
to be able to use imperial and metric measurements equally as well. They are both really easy, just different bases.
yeap as simple as that 🙂
Naked Attraction tele programme.
I preferred the radio version
yeap as simple as that 🙂
@maccruiskeen that is a great visualisation. I was trying to put it in words for my earlier reply but I gave up!
Tories.
Steve Wright in the Afternoon
Steve Wright any time.
Steve Wright in the Afternoon
Oh god, this. He's awful, has been for 30-35 years now.
Not having hoverboards
Sorry, “kids”? I’ve been gaming for 40 years.
About a similar amount of time I played and watched football. And it’s been slagged off few times yet again on here. We are after all just oiks.
I do understand gaming very well but glad I played football.
People who can't use a Dyson airblade in the toilets.
Stop wringing yer hands!!!
As far as the chart above is concerned, measurements used in print, ie for typesetting, aren’t really Imperial, they’re a very specific industrial measurement system that’s used all over the world, derived from actual cast lead type, which is also still used. Any attempt to try to make it metric would result in tiny fractions of a millimetre cropping up.
Most of the measurement systems shown are obsolete and have been for years, except for certain things like furlong used in horse racing. Fathom is an international measurement, as is knot. I have happily used metric measurements for about fifty years, once I started working in print and design, it’s easier for page layouts etc when using A- and B- size paper, except Americans just had to adopt an imperial sized version of an international standard, for no logical reason I can think of, other than it weren’t designed by dam’ furriners!
However, I still think more easily in miles, rather than kilometres, but I use metres rather than yards.
As far as re-introducing Imperial measurements goes, though, surely they’ve never gone away, people just do what I do, carry on using whatever they’re comfortable with, like pints; why stop selling beer in pints, everyone is familiar with it, same with pounds and ounces, although I buy milk in litres, along with petrol. A decimal coinage system is vastly easier to use than the old £sp as well!
A modern society should be flexible enough to allow a combination of systems to accommodate the members of that society to carry on using measurements they grew up with decades ago - to insist on forcing people to adapt almost overnight is just being authoritative and lacking in understanding and compassion.
It's almost as confusing as Australian beer measures.
