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Fancy a rant?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/news ... dozen.html

I recall the metric/imperial fuss years ago. The local story was that a woman went to a stall in Leeds Kirkgate market and asked for a pound of onions.
"Sorry, luv," said the stallholder, "it's all kilos now." "Never mind," she said, "I'll have a pound of kilos."

What utter nonsense this all is. What really gets my goat is that it is we taxpayers who are funding the salaries of these idiots.
I could go on..... but my blood pressure is rising!

As a thought, as we are effectively ruled by Brussels [well some 80% of the laws are made by them] why do we need parliament, think of the money that would be saved, that's just with expenses.

having got over the initial spitting feathers... i presume that nothing will actually change except a box of six eggs will have a lable on it printed with the weight of 6 small eggs... bearing no relation to the actual weight of the eggs in the box.... or are we expecting all the chickens to lay eggs of exactly the target weight

Maybe we should follow our French partners, agree with everything, ignore the bits that do not suit you.

I thought that eggs were already sold by weight

Very Large 73g + more
Large 63 - 73g
Medium 53 - 63g
Small 53g + less

Remember that the silly season is almost on us so these newspaper journos, who probably wouldn't even recognise a real egg or know where they came from, will write about any nonsense to fill their columns.

John

richard p wrote:or are we expecting all the chickens to lay eggs of exactly the target weight

More likely, ones out of grade will be discarded ...

And they'll be introducing legislation to ban the breeding of square eggs.
Question: Are Cadbury's (whoops, sorry Kraft) Creme Eggs sold by weight or individual item ??

Primrose wrote:Question: Are Cadbury's (whoops, sorry Kraft) Creme Eggs sold by weight or individual item ??

Weight - 39 grams
http://nutrition.cadbury.co.uk/epages/S ... ID=1028255

But who in their right mind would want to eat one anyway?

i need five fence panels .... do they have to be priced by the kilo?

richard p wrote:i need five fence panels .... do they have to be priced by the kilo?

Only if you are going to eat them, apparently.

I'm waiting for the day when the idiots decree that we are no longer allowed to buy a pair of shoes and that each one must be bought singly by weight.

And wouldn't be awfull to have to ask for, 0.5 of a litre of tea please.

One of our local clothes shops has an intriguing offer in its sale - the sign in the window reads "3 for 2 on all socks".

But at least someone's happy

I could certainly make use of that "3 for 2" offer on the socks!

It might help me match up all the odd socks which seem to appear in the washing machine. I line all the odd ones up on my indoor airer and quite often over the period of a few weeks, all their long lost partners usually turn up. I swear my washing machine has a spare cheek in it somewhere, like a greedy little hamster, confiscating odd socks for a period of time and churning them out again when it thinks I've given up hope.