Britain celebrates a victory: The fabled pint won't be renamed

Gawd, ordering a half-litre of beer make you sound like a raging alcholoic, ordering a pint does not. Good on Britian!

half litre is standard size in Eastern Europe,
they bring that automatically.

Unless, of course, you are a woman, or a pansy, then
you can order a 'small' beer

Some good news coming out of this recession finally...

Let's bring back the quart for whiskey.

Methinks the UK handed over a little bit too much power to the Eurocrats in Brussels.

Methinks the UK should get the hell out if they don't want to be part of it

No Euro, no driving on the right side, no metric system... WTF are they doing in the EU, except for paying?

I wouldn't mind seeing the UK quit the EU and some kind of UK/CAN/AUS/NZ group forming.

Little bit better than the so called NAU.

with the equalization payments negotiated by Thatcher,
the UK makes money out of the EU

so its nots so bad for them.

lol - exactly!

I'll have a half lager and lime pour favor. . . .

Maybe they could call it a Commonwealth of Nations? That sounds pretty good.

Maybe they could call it a Commonwealth of Nations? That sounds pretty good.


I know this is simplistic but if you tally up the four nations stats you'd end up with a country that has:

- An economy second only to the United States (5.3 trillion)
- The largest country by area (18,000,000+ km2)
- 11th largest by population. (120+ million)

To simplify it they could just call it the "Commonwealth". Combined we'd definitely be a bigger buddy for the US and partners in the western alliance.

Maybe such a combined state could even achieve Superpower status...

Yes, the good old 20oz English pint, still can't get used to the wimpy 16oz US "pint"

And if they don't fill it to the rim, you send it back. No 2" of foam head like they try to pull off here.

As a science/tech type I guy, I love metric when I'm working. There's fewer conversion errors, and you're not stuck using arcane units like slugs per foot-pound or whatever.

However, for daily life I don't much like metric at all. The imperial units were tried and tested over hundreds of years to be useful. Thus, scientifically, Farenheit seems awkward since water freezes at 32 and boils at 212. However, most temperatures in Europe are between 0 and 100, which is very intuitive.

Maybe they could call it a Commonwealth of Nations? That sounds pretty good.

damn beat me to it...