Little Englanders can't contain their joy about a decision to preserve the Imperial system, pounds, ounces and all.
The Daily Mail's message board is buzzing with enthusiasm for the imperial system and the "common sense" decision by an EU commissioner to allow British traders to continue using it.
It a "triumph over the left-wing loonies" says Peter Pan of Great Britain. He adds: "This is just the first step to getting our country back." "Hoorah!" says Rosemary of London, but she also wants more. "Now what about restoring farenheit [sic] to the TV weather screens?" Give them an inch and they want to take back the mile. "Now can we PLEASE go back to miles rather than kilometres particularly on television reporting?" pleads Sp of Southampton.
They also heap tons (but not tonnes) of praise on the Metric Martyrs, the market traders who claim they were fined for selling their produce in imperial measures only. Someone from Lancashire, calling themselves Al Capone, says: "If only more Englishmen were like the Metric Martyrs, we could have Home Rule for England. Well done."
The Metric Martyrs and the Conservatives hailed the decision as a "monumental victory" and called on the government to "abandon the enforced metrication programme."
But Nosemonkey calls them Metric Morons and points out that they were actually convicted for failing to update their scales.
"The metrication battle was lost - without much of a fight - back in 1965, and had nothing to do with the European Union. So can we shut up about it already?"
This seems unlikely. Those at the UK Metric Association for example won 't rest until a "single rational system" is finally introduced to this country. In the meantime it carries some handy advice about where you can buy metric only tape measures.
