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If he retains his interest in trains, when he's older you could take him to stay at Currour Station House on the West Highland Line. An actual station, miles from anywhere in Scotland. Nearest road is ten miles away I think and the highest mainline station in the UK

I presumed when he mentioned Kortney Hause, he was just going to get him to mow his lawn, not actually play football

Heaven Up Here - Echo and the Bunnymen Playing with a Different Sex - The Au Pairs Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk Handsworth Revolution - Steel Pulse London Calling - The Clash Ege Bamyasi - Can Pastel Blue - Nina Simone Metal Box - PIL Meddle - Pink Floyd Houses of the Holy - Led Zep Would be very different every time but that isn't my top ten personally but I've tried to balance it out across time and genre. Could easily put in another 40 or so

I'd quite welcome some unproductive bullshit right now.

Not being allowed to take time off this week. I understand why, its busy in the call centre and they aren't allowed to take time off so to be fair no-one can but I am literally looking for things to do to alleviate the boredom.

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Must be played with On Ramp preceding it

I demand the return of the farthing, a quarter of a whole old penny, which in todays money would be the equivalent of one tenth of a penny

And pennies were bigger than a 2p coin to properly confuse you

Nope, metrification in the UK started in 1965 and was at the request of industry and nothing to do with any attempt to join the EEC There has been a Weights and Measures act in the UK which has specified the measures alcohol should be sold in (and a whole host of other stuff) for a very long time. Iirc spirits in a pub used to be sold in units of 1/6th of a gill, which was then changed to the almost equivalent 25ml, this was after EEC membership iirc but the process had started long before, there was even some quango called the metrication board or somesuch that oversaw all the changes and they changed a few things every year. I remember the change from stupid pounds to the 100p in the pound happening when I was in infants around 1969.

Nah, not going to happen, economies of scale.

And decades of status quo will remain, the bottle manufacturers, the makers of bottling plants etc are not going to change because... Britain. Someone tells a Frenchman that the UK can now sell wine by the pint...

Sparkling, different rules The full list from above But it isn't true to say you can sell it in any measure you want. You can't. It has to be those specific ones

Tesco be breaking the law then Weights and measures act specifically only allows wine to be sold in 100, 187, 250, 375, 500, 750, 1000, 1500 ml bottles. But in any measure below 75ml and above 1500ml, so if Tesco is selling 200ml bottles, they are breaking the law Weights & Measures .gov

Yep Legally allowed wine bottle sizes in the UK (and pretty much standard across the world) Split (187.5ml) Half (375ml) Standard (750ml) Magnum (1.5L) Jeroboam (3L) Methuselah (6L) Salmanazar (9L) Balthazar (12L) Nebuchadnezzar (15L) Midas (30L) EDIT: This post is slightly wrong see below

You'd think they'd have done this for the USA already, given it's the largest consumer by volume in the world Guess what, they haven't

I think they stopped selling that filthy French, protected by the EU, PDO fizzy grape juice in the run up to Brexit

nah, won't happen. No-one is changing the size of bottles just to suit the Tory Party. They are allowing it to be sold in quantities of a pint, no one's going to be stupid enough to actually sell it in such measures.

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Apparently a pint of Champagne was Winston Churchill's favourite measure, which would suggest yes and also give you the rationale behind the decision.

It's his tea lady at work and he's planning on killing her on 2nd January for not making his coffee hot enough

Post Brexit Imperial measurements plan scrapped after 99% that responded to the consultation wanted to stick with metric The government are going to allow wine and champagne to be sold in pints though. Yep I can just see the wine producing nations of the world going, yep we need to make pint bottles just for the UK

48 hours I'm guessing

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