Saturday, January 23, 2016

'Miles' behind

Part of a headline in today's Irish Independent.

How many years ago did Ireland change from imperial to metric measure?

And this is no exception. Most Irish newspapers still use imperial measurement.

Why?

3 comments:

Póló said...

I buy my meat in the butchers by the pound It tastes better.

Michael Commane said...

They probably sell you intervention meat.

Póló said...

I should complain to the Beef Tribunal then :)

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