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Sean Martin
May 24th, 2006, 12:02 PM
It's all gone bananas


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Furious market traders in High Wycombe have hit out at European plans that will stop them selling their produce in pounds and ounces or be slapped with a £5,000 fine.

Law makers in Brussels want to see imperial measurements banned from market stalls in Britain to come in line with the rest of Europe.

The move, which comes into effect in 2010, will see pounds replaced by kilograms on every sign selling bananas, potatoes and carrots.

Anyone caught even mentioning the price of their fruit or veg by the pound could be made to pay.
http://www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk/news/roundup/display.var.767965.0.its_all_gone_bananas.php

Amalekite
June 14th, 2006, 12:11 PM
Furious market traders in High Wycombe have hit out at European plans that will stop them selling their produce in pounds and ounces or be slapped with a £5,000 fine.

Law makers in Brussels want to see imperial measurements banned from market stalls in Britain to come in line with the rest of Europe.

The metric system = globalization

Abzug Hoffman
June 14th, 2006, 02:31 PM
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
and no religion too...