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I think we've been had (startrek.website)

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[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Iirc a ship was carrying the metric standards to the US in like 1790 and sank and they just said fuck it

[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Which other colonies use imperial?

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[-] Zeshade@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

In the meantime to "take advantage of Brexit" it will be possible to sell wine by the pint... A push to go back to the imperial system was axed though. Maybe brexiters should move to the US if they like the imperial system so much.

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[-] arin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

use English as an official language for EU Brexit

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