Measures gone bananas
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As if metrication were not bad enough, I am told that "a unique new dimension is given to carrying capacity" by Wilsdon and Co Ltd in a new refrigerated van body. They have invented the pizza as a unit of measurement. The body has a capacity of 46,000 pizzas. The gross plated weight is expressed in steak and kidney puddings.
When one strays into the Common Market all contact with reality is lost. What was once the good old pound sterling becomes 0.661617 EUA, which has replaced the ua, equalling 0.88867088 grams of fine gold.
But don't think you have excaped from the ua; you haven't. It is still used in connection with the dreaded CAP, but, all that glisters not being gold, it is now determined by green rates.
So what hope is there for the 20 teenage applicants for a job in the Midlands, none of whom knew how many quarters there were in an inch? Come to think of it, how many are there?