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Subject: Metric Martyrs
Author: Dave (UK)	[ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ] Date Posted: 17:00:46 01/07/05 Fri In reply to: Ed Harris (London) 's message, "I'm sure we could..." on 16:46:10 01/07/05 Fri Whatever happened to them anyway? Are they all behind 3cm bars now? [ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ]

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Ed Harris (London)
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Date Posted: 17:18:12 01/07/05 Fri

I think that they were all fined a large number of pounds (in hundreds, I imagine) and their scales confiscated and they were obliged to replace them with metric ones. Many of them only bring them out for their six-monthly local authority inspections.

One of the martyrs spoke at a rally I went to in London a while back, and, along with the Australian Monarchist League bloke and, of course, the wonderful Chris Gill and Teddy Taylor, was the best speaker there. What he says about the EU, in his broad geordie accent, makes Nigel Farrage sound like Michael Heseltine.

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[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Irish conversion
Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 17:22:14 01/07/05 Fri With Ireland going over to kilometres per hour, am I correct in assuming that this is just the Republic? Is Northern Ireland, as part of the UK, remaining in miles per hour, the same as Great Britain? If so, you will get a situation the same as the Canada-USA border. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: It is only in the Republic
Author: Lurker [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 17:26:07 01/07/05 Fri BTW distance signs have already been metric for years now, while they remained in miles on the North [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Metric martyrs
Author: Curnoack [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 20:16:30 01/07/05 Fri What about the THOUSANDS who have died fighting for their countries right to independence? Don't read about them in the Little England Daily Mail do you? Fascist tabloid rag. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: And what about the THOUSANDS of Cornish people who died fighting for the British Empire?
Author: Roberdin [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 20:09:11 01/09/05 Sun [ Post a Reply to This Message ]