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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 03:33pm on 04/06/2009
All else aside, who gives a fuck if you buy beer in pints or half-litres? It's all beer.
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posted by [identity profile] yrieithydd.livejournal.com at 05:10pm on 04/06/2009
It's the 68ml difference that's the problem? Though in areas that don't use lined glasses it might not make much difference!

And we still generally buy milk in pints even if it does say 568ml on the outside.

And as I said 500ml is closer to a pint than an American pint is, as that is only about 450ml (doing a rough conversion as an American pint is 4/5 the size of ours).
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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 05:16pm on 04/06/2009
Curiously, I discovered recently (not entirely unsurprisingly) that half-litre-to-line glasses are pint-to-brim glasses differently labelled.

We could very conveniently switch to half-litres while requiring new glassware to be half-litre-to-line and permitting serving "half-litres" in existing pint glassware.

I really don't understand this one, though. It seems just as stupid as opposing the Euro because of the prospect of not having one particular old lady's bonce on the money [1], rather than genuine economic criticisms. As long as the price per unit volume doesn't change and beer glasses contain a convenient amount of beer, how can anyone get excited about it?

[1] yes, I know Euros have a national side which could have Brenda's head on, but this objection seemed to do the rounds in the early days...

[Edited to fix obvious thinko]
Edited Date: 2009-06-04 05:16 pm (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] yrieithydd.livejournal.com at 07:06pm on 04/06/2009
Curiously, I discovered recently (not entirely unsurprisingly) that half-litre-to-line glasses are pint-to-brim glasses differently labelled.

I thought that would probably be the case.

And I'm with you on the Euro too. A friend of mine who is an economist doesn't think we should join the Euro because our economy isn't in sync enough with the rest of Europe and that's an argument I can respect. But I have no emotional attachment to the coinage (especially the silly new ones) and from the point of view of travel one currency has major advantages.
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posted by [identity profile] the-marquis.livejournal.com at 08:34pm on 04/06/2009
Indeed many of the bottles of beer and cider I consume are 500ml and not 568ml/Pint
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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 10:37pm on 04/06/2009
... AOL. How did I miss that?
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posted by [identity profile] edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com at 11:41am on 05/06/2009
One local supermarket was doing a 3 for 2 offer on bottle of beer recently which naturally made me happy.

I noted that Newcastle Brown was being sold in 550ml bottles while other similarly priced ales on offer were in 500ml bottles.

It may all be beer, but damnit it was more beer!

(That said I'm in favour of the metric system, I'm also in favour of 10% more beer)
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