A man walked into pizza shop and ordered a 12 inch pizza. The staff asked how many slices he wants it cut into. The man said: "just 6 I don't think I can finish 8".

@carultch

Жыл бұрын

That pretty much sums up the first lady's point.

@moonlightcocktail

Жыл бұрын

I think it's different, although it's the same mass the psyching yourself to eat 6 things in a row is easier than 8 things

@mariatheresavonhabsburg

Жыл бұрын

@@moonlightcocktail Not necessarily, smaller portions usually means eating slower and therefore being able to eat more.

@PraxisPeabody

Жыл бұрын

I think that was yogi Berra

@Simqer

Жыл бұрын

@@mariatheresavonhabsburg When you eat slower, you give your body time to realize it is full and stop you from eating more. You can eat more when you eat faster.

The only reason Hitler didn’t invade Britain was because his panzer tank divisions could only travel kilometres, not miles. Also, they were unsure if they could refill in Dover with gallons of fuel in tanks designed for litres.

@ntyrprblm6254

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣 this is quite good lol

@gllphoto8399

Жыл бұрын

Also because they had to drive on the left hand side of the road and that was confusing and dangerous.

@Robert-cu9bm

Жыл бұрын

But they would have gotten better efficiency when they arrive.

@gabrieleguerrisi4335

Жыл бұрын

Some of this people's thought reminds me about and old italian joke. A journalist at the petrol station asks to a man: "petrol has reach 2€/L. What do you think about it?" The man "I don't care. I take always 10 liters. As always"😂😂😂

@albertbatfinder5240

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrieleguerrisi4335 Strange, because the line I used for 15 years is sort of the inverse. “Petrol going up? How so? I always put $20 worth in.”

This video gives me hope for the future. People aren't getting dumber.. they always were dumb!

@zaftra

2 жыл бұрын

like the last man that fought in the war so you could make these comments.

@Hackney_Boy-DoesntReadReplies

2 жыл бұрын

@@zaftra so future generations aren't allowed to change anything? That was not what ww2 was about.

@zaftra

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hackney_Boy-DoesntReadReplies Apparently not according to remoaners.

@aidenwinter1117

2 жыл бұрын

@@zaftra If humans had been clever enough to not fight each other so that they could be the ultimate big man of the world there would have been no war

@tedf1471

2 жыл бұрын

"Dumb, Dangerous, Panicky animals, and you know it!" (MIB)

The thing that shocked me was a mobility scooter in 1978

@Jafmanz

Жыл бұрын

wait till you find out when the first electric car was made...

@hughjarrse

Жыл бұрын

@@Jafmanz well they had electric milk floats in the mid 30s there must have been hundreds of thousands of them in the uk, I think the Yanks had an "electric carriage" type thing at the turn of last century, what surprised me was I was around in 78, but I can't remember any mobility scooters 🙂

@hughjarrse

Жыл бұрын

@Ed she ain't hitting 88mph in that 😁

@huub1989

Жыл бұрын

She was a rich old thing.....could afford it back then.

@ACKWV

Жыл бұрын

@@huub1989 yep, clearly rich.

Thank goodness that I'm not going abroad this year. Diesel is expensive enough but at least my car is more efficient when the road is measured in miles not kilometres. 🤣🤣🤣

@georgesotiriou7051

2 жыл бұрын

Hear, hear.

@jKDC1987

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@fionaalsofiona2835

2 жыл бұрын

Surely it is more efficient in kilometres. One gets far more kilometres to the gallon. Though of course those bloody foreigners will insist on selling it in litres.

@lkrnpk

2 жыл бұрын

kilomilemetres

@georgesotiriou7051

2 жыл бұрын

@@lkrnpk Shockingly there are plans of the Deep State to posthumously change the name of Miles Davis to Kilometres Davis.

I've watched the first woman about 50 times now, absolute comedy gold.

@sonyaross946

2 жыл бұрын

Kilomilemetres

@jaybenton7716

2 жыл бұрын

@@sonyaross946 That's how I'm going to pronounce it from now on.

@sonyaross946

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaybenton7716 Quite clever that she combined them really 😄 'You don't get as much mileage to the...TO IT.'

@-_James_-

2 жыл бұрын

She’s Michael Caine in drag.

@theram4320

2 жыл бұрын

As someone here has said, the first lady is possibly from the Elephant and Castle, like Mr Caine!

Actually 6 metric years of WW2 equals 10 imperial years

@saxongreen78

2 жыл бұрын

...no wonder Adolf topped 'imself!

@bensims7501

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@DanielsPolitics1

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, he may well have served 10 years. There was extensive demobilisation in 1945, but we retained a large army of occupation that turned into the BAOR. We also had troops in some pretty sticky situations in various Empire and Mandate and so on territories such as Palestine.

@steve08717

Жыл бұрын

@@DanielsPolitics1 no mobilization contracts where for duration of war and 1 day so men who joined in 1939 where home by 1945 some lucky ones called up in 1945 didnt even finish training before being released even as a regular 10 years is odd contracts where 3 6 or 12 years national service was 2 or 3 years and that didnt start to 1948 even then we had walts

@vorynrosethorn903

Жыл бұрын

There were plenty of troops who stayed around, whether they signed up early or reenlisted when things started getting sticky there was plenty for that chap to have been involved in. Both the malayan emergency and Korean war saw mass reenlistment and shortly after the war they had to occupy various places like the retaken colonies, Japan and Germany and old troops were kept around for it, their were quite a lot of duties to go around with clean up and Britain took quite a while to demobilise. The end of the war didn't mean an end of commitments, believe it or not Britain had a global empire and was a global power even if the post-war government made short work of both.

Bloody hell, that first lady doesn't even understand that physical distance doesn't change just because the units used to express that distance does. She must be related to Nigel "These Go To 11" Tufnel.

@MikkelKjrJensen

2 жыл бұрын

Also, a mile is longer than a kilometer - so her statement makes no sense in any form.

@Channel567-7

2 жыл бұрын

She’s a typical part of a nicer generation of Britain, didn’t quite understand some things but had a heart of gold.

@meh3247

2 жыл бұрын

@@Channel567-7 How the hell would YOU know? You wouldn't, so sit down and stop being an embarrassing fool.

@sevenwatson5854

2 жыл бұрын

Due to her age she didn't benefit from the welfare reforms of the late 1940s so elderly people are exempt as education was different before WWII.

@stuartwray6175

2 жыл бұрын

@@MikkelKjrJensen Leaving aside the logic of her argument, she knows that a mile is longer than a kilometre.

The way the last bloke drew the link from a measuring system to Chamberlain and the Battle of Britain is remarkable.

@MetalheadAndNerd

Жыл бұрын

It's the only success they had in the last 100 years.

@matthew8184

Жыл бұрын

@@MetalheadAndNerd Falklands makes 2!

@vorynrosethorn903

Жыл бұрын

Because they were asking if a foreign measurement system should be imposed and he as a man who had fought in the war and had seen the imposition of many things without the say of the British public felt umbrage at it, and like his service had counted for nothing.

@linearmemories

Жыл бұрын

@@vorynrosethorn903 It’s objectively a better system. He’s scared of a measurement system simply because it’s different.

@koenvandiepen7651

Жыл бұрын

What is even more remarkable that he fought for 10 years in a war that lasted 6. Must be the conversion rare. Years in Miles are obviously longer

0:50 "and now we're just being part of a community, i don't agree with it at all" lol England, you haven't changed much 😂

@Palpad100

Жыл бұрын

Thats brexit right there.

@slowburgundyy574

Жыл бұрын

"We won a war to keep doing our own thing" No you won a war because a Fascist empire was threatening half the population of Europe and your prime minister couldn't use the threat of the USSR to ignore it any more, hell the Russians ended up doing most of the work anyway.

@parametr

Жыл бұрын

tbf, at least he is sincere about his reasons: "we used to be an Empire and invade the world (for all their riches); I don't like not being an Empire". Spanish, French, Ottoman, Austrohungarian, Russian, ... forgetting quite a few other Empires there

@frenchguitarguy1091

Жыл бұрын

I just loved how his argument was basically "we used to force people to be part of our community, and now I don't want to be part of a community- by measuring things in decimals"

@whitewhale9131

Жыл бұрын

you just know that guy was alive in 2016 and voted out

I love that they basically gave the woman in the scooter a full on mic drop moment.

@BEAN.MACHINE

Жыл бұрын

😂

@chrisVNZ

10 ай бұрын

💯%

I love how the old man was wandering around in the back every single frame

@ACKWV

Жыл бұрын

I thought that too, he was always ready to throw his opinion in.

@jonathaniyere3203

Жыл бұрын

hes the only one who was right

@justaguy4081

Жыл бұрын

I like to imagine that he started an argument with every person who didn’t like kilometers.

@martind2520

Жыл бұрын

@@justaguy4081 He clearly did.

"We once ruled the world and now, we're part of a community, I don't agree with that at all" - my thoughts exactly when I was put in kindergarten and later elementary school.

@thekaiser4333

Жыл бұрын

I like you.

@user-te1fn8cj5r

Жыл бұрын

From senior elementary to junior high school as well.

@ELFanatic

Жыл бұрын

Yikes!

@Halebopp97

Жыл бұрын

Only the “community” isn’t a community at all and instead a federal Europe. He was right and thankfully we got out.

@tomorrowneverdies567

Жыл бұрын

@@Halebopp97 and are politics in the UK different now than in any EU country?

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." -- Winston Churchill, Manchester. 1938.

@stephenspence1192

2 жыл бұрын

There is no other fair system.

@bobsmith3291

2 жыл бұрын

Big Tory tosser Churchill

@biggles1222

2 жыл бұрын

Churchill never said this, but I agree with the statement

@bobsmith3291

2 жыл бұрын

@@biggles1222 the one that he’s a big Tory nonce?

@tommykarate9397

2 жыл бұрын

Nowadays 1 minute conversation is more than enough to arrive to the same conclusion

respect to the man who fought for miles and ounces

@politesociety

Жыл бұрын

F

@NorthEastTrailRunner

7 ай бұрын

Especially seeing as he fought for ten years in a war that lasted six years.

@energetically1

Ай бұрын

@@NorthEastTrailRunner He went the extra mile

That first lady - also a staunch opponent of daylight saving, with it fading the curtains and the cows not knowing when to come in for milking.

@rin_etoware_2989

Жыл бұрын

to be fair, daylight saving sucks

@OLBastholm

Жыл бұрын

@@rin_etoware_2989 It's the only reason I'm not even more depressed during the winter.

@RichTapestry

Жыл бұрын

@@OLBastholm It works the other way for me!

@Robert-cu9bm

Жыл бұрын

@@OLBastholm Daylight savings is in summer.

@MonkOrMan

Жыл бұрын

but you don't get the same amount o' daylight what yer used to

"You're not doing that! You're not gonna do the mileage what they say you're gonna do, because their kilo-mileo-meters are not the same as the mileage. It's shorter!" I'm going to quote that to anyone who says that people who are as dumb as toast are a new phenomenon in this country.

@mreese8764

2 жыл бұрын

Let's fight climate change by using megamiles for car and planes. Problems solved.

@Romiman1

Жыл бұрын

It reminds me also on videos, in which american youngsters are asked for the current president or the 2 neighbour-countries of the US, and they can't answer...

Amazing performance by Michael Caine at the start there.

@AlisonBryen

2 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment...

Man is dressed like Sherlock Holmes and just starts talking about WWII when being asked about the metric system 😂 God bless the British

People were also mad that in 1971, the pound was decimalised so £1 = 100 pennies. Imagine if these geezers resisted that change, and we were still dealing with 12 shillings of 20 pence per £1. Tourists would just turn back around at Heathrow.

@UdumbaraMusic

Жыл бұрын

I guess people really hate change, regardless of how much sense it makes...

@LewisGuilfy

Жыл бұрын

@@UdumbaraMusic thats why i dont carry change with me anymore

@jorgepeterbarton

Жыл бұрын

Idk 12 is mathematically superior. We should covert to base-12 or base-60 to do away with problems of ratios involving 3. The 20, add the division of five. (As for anything else, like miles, or pounds in a stone yeh feel free.)

@UdumbaraMusic

Жыл бұрын

@Dave? How was it a neoliberal scam?

@UdumbaraMusic

Жыл бұрын

@Dave? Yea I know what neoliberalism is, I mean why couldn't they have done that without decimalisation? I don't see the link.

I love that first woman for inventing "kilomileometres" - it's shorter.

Someone claiming that the almost gave their life for a unit of measure…. That’s a stretch.

@alpacamale2909

Жыл бұрын

a 1 mile stretch, mind you.

@summerrr1

Жыл бұрын

It’s what it represents

I did ten years in the war, (Didn't notice that everyone had gone home for the last four).

@Ribeirasacra

2 жыл бұрын

he was in The Great Metric War. Everything in units of 10s.😄

@microfarming8583

2 жыл бұрын

Many soldiers were ordered to continue on abroad serving in duty even after the war was officially over. Snowflake like you laugh at heroes like this and don't even realise you only enjoy freedoms and the life you love because of them. Entitled brat

@the_lichemaster

2 жыл бұрын

May have served in Berlin afterwards

@TheColonialGamer131

2 жыл бұрын

After the war the allies still needed to garrison the occupied territories so some poor souls had their conscriptions extended.

@zaftra

2 жыл бұрын

ever thought he could have been in the army for 10 years

Oh that first woman was priceless! Love her! Your car won't be able to go as far because kilometres are shorter than miles! I wish I'd been there to say 'ah, but you'll get there faster, because the speed limits are higher'! Made my day!

@marioluigi9599

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, she's got a point. Psychologically it kilometres feel cheaper than miles. And you end up having to buy more petrol all the time if you're used to miles. In the end you're likely to spend more on petrol overall because you're used to spending more frequently. It's like when there's inflation in the money supply. It makes the money itself feel cheaper, but everything else becomes more expensive

@penitent2401

Жыл бұрын

@@marioluigi9599 how? the car still burns the same amount of fuel to go the same distance. the distance between two places does not change. a car that runs 30 miles per gallon of fuel will do 48km per gallon, so psychologically if you look at it from that angle you may think you are getting more distance for same tank of gas if you are used to miles.

@marioluigi9599

Жыл бұрын

@@penitent2401 no you're not getting more distance because AS YOU DRIVE, the numbers scroll past faster over less distance. That's what cheapens it

@penitent2401

Жыл бұрын

@@marioluigi9599 I said you get the same distance and mileage. you are not going to buy any more or less fuel. psychologically you may THINK you are getting more or less depending on the angle you look at it, but in reality it's no difference.

@koenvandiepen7651

Жыл бұрын

@@marioluigi9599 Do you often go for petrol when your tank is full? Cause there is literally no way to burn more fuel psychologically. The car really does not care what you think about it.

I was raised using the imperial system but now live where we use the metric system. Honestly the metric system is a lot easier to work with but I sometimes still think in imperial units and have to convert in my head. I like them both.

@dougoneill7266

2 жыл бұрын

Imperial and number twelve is a far better system than ten. ten is divisible by 1, 2, 5 and itself. it's impossible to get 1/3 of ten. Twelve, however, can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and itself. Tell how ten is superior?

@ratupmyass

2 жыл бұрын

@@dougoneill7266 because our number system is base 10 and units in tens are easier to remember and convert? 1 mi = 1,760 yds = 5,280 ft = 63,360 in 1 km = 1000 m = 100000 cm = 1000000 mm

@dougoneill7266

2 жыл бұрын

@@ratupmyass Whatever you're happy with.

@krashd

2 жыл бұрын

@@dougoneill7266 If you think the 12 times table is easier to remember than the 10 times table then you are a fool. Almost everything in the world uses base 10.

@Neil070

2 жыл бұрын

@@dougoneill7266Because it's far simpler. No feet and inches. No rods, poles, perches or furlongs. Literally all you do is move the decimal point. No need to divide by 2,3,4 and then convert to a randomly named unit with a random value dreamed up by the Babylonians, exported to Rome, and imposed on Britain by the Norman French. Just divide by ten. How much more simple can it be?

man sacrificed his life for pounds and ounces 😂

@alpacamale2909

Жыл бұрын

and kidney stones

@thePronto

Жыл бұрын

Self-evidently, he didn't. As Bertrand Russell one said: "Most people would sooner die than think, in fact, they do."

1.40 Wow an electric personal mobility device operating in 1978!!

@meh3247

2 жыл бұрын

Well this is going to blow your tiny mind: "In August 1967, the UK Electric Vehicle Association put out a press release stating that Britain had more battery-electric vehicles on its roads than the rest of the world combined. It is not clear what research the association had undertaken into the quantity of electric vehicles of other countries, but closer inspection disclosed that almost all of the battery-driven vehicles licensed for UK road use were milk floats"

@davidbull7210

2 жыл бұрын

And given the speed it was obviously running on average British brain power.

@Pixiedust8399

2 жыл бұрын

The first cars made were electric, the batteries weren't very efficient though.

@rustshoo5068

2 жыл бұрын

R2D2 and C3PO were built in Britain

@davidbull7210

2 жыл бұрын

@@rustshoo5068 What in the name of Bonaparte's balls has that got to do with anything?

It's insane how good quality this is, I feel like I could just jump into the picture

@TheJevonjames

Жыл бұрын

Film is just magical to look at isn’t it, unlike digital video which just looks sterile

@chrisogrady28

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJevonjames you are literally watching a digtal video

@TheJevonjames

Жыл бұрын

It’s film that’s been converted to digital video. If you listen to a Beatles song that was recorded on analog tape it doesn’t automatically make it a song created with computers just because you listen to it digitally on Spotify.

@cboy0394

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJevonjames It’s a video that was remastered digitally.

@TheJevonjames

Жыл бұрын

@@cboy0394 I am talking about the medium at which this footage was captured. Recorded on film. A physical non digital medium. The beauty and identifying feel of this footage is unparalleled by digital video. Whatever happened after scanning and digitizing and remastering and whatever else is contrary to the original point of my comment.

The "4 miles an hour" lady was the best! And off she goes at about 6.5km/h..

Nice to know that people have always been thick and it's not just a modern thing

If that first lady was in a pizzeria and was asked whether she wanted her pizza cut into 6 or 8 slices she'd say 8 thinking she was getting 2 additional slices.

@Tykeonabike

Жыл бұрын

Yes Barry 😂🙏👌

@darrenowen3338

Жыл бұрын

The irony of you thinking you're more knowledgeable than her!

@barryboom717

Жыл бұрын

@@darrenowen3338 apologies for saying such insulting things about your granny Darren.

@lewiswatkin392

Жыл бұрын

She is getting 2 more slices... just the same quantity of pizza

@sikerslalatm3147

Жыл бұрын

@@darrenowen3338 she kind of is though

I made it 22 seconds into the video before having to stop. Glad to see the British public really hasn't changed all that much in 44 years after all (even just based on those 22 seconds)!

@gave2haze

Жыл бұрын

The first 27 seconds are the worst part of the video

@jesselivermore2291

10 ай бұрын

kilomileameters 🤣

The thing is metric isn't even 'European'. All European countries used to have their own measurements before adopting metric to make things easier. Can you imagine the hell of travelling around Europe today if every country still had its own unique measurements.

@cheydinal5401

2 жыл бұрын

Right, so it is European though. Really it's Napoleonic even, French

@danieleyre8913

Жыл бұрын

@@cheydinal5401 Napoleonic how? The origins of the metric system are with the pre-Napoleonic French Revolution. And many of its advocates and expanders were British such as James Clerk Maxwell.

@cheydinal5401

Жыл бұрын

@@danieleyre8913 Well, if he hadn't conquered almost all of continental Europe, Europe would have been much less likely to adopt it. If the Brit James Clerk Maxwell's support did so much to advance the cause, why didn't Britain adopt the metric system at the time then?

@danieleyre8913

Жыл бұрын

@@cheydinal5401 Wrong. The world would’ve adopted Metric over the older system anyway, *because it’s a better system.* That’s why almost every nation eventually did that without anything to do with Napoleon. Do you honestly think that in the aftermath of the wars; nations rebuilding couldn’t have reverted? The British empire foolishly neglected to adopt it, against the advice of its own scientific and engineering communities, due to the size of its empire and administrative difficulties. But since the end of empire: Almost the entire British commonwealth has adopted it. The UK is holding out due to the sort of idiotic ignorant attitudes as seen in this video.

@redfire20003

Жыл бұрын

The Internation System of Units (SI) was rolled out from 1960.

I like how everyone after (and before) they get interviewed just wanders around the person currently being interviewed. It's like they're part of the club now.

That German who was all for it and later appears smirking in the background as the Brit laments all he fought for in the War.....🤬😱😝

@nicksss1843

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@alainprostbis

Жыл бұрын

It reminds me of a song from the kinks...all the wars that were won or lost, somehow don't seem to matter very much any more...

We buy fuel in litres, measure consumption in miles per gallon, drive miles, the little markers at the side of the motorway are in kilometres, our Ordnance Survey maps are based on kilometre squares. What's the problem?

When everything is conveted to metric it will be a new milestone in measurement systems.

@pgpete

2 жыл бұрын

I mean kilometre-stone.....

@stephenlee5929

2 жыл бұрын

@@pgpete Kilometre-Kilogram...

@ethelmini

2 жыл бұрын

@@pgpete mille = 1000

@peterfireflylund

2 жыл бұрын

Britain is slowly inching towards metric.

@accountreality1988

Жыл бұрын

@@peterfireflylund only where is it needed. i prefer the mile system to kilometre system especially in cars to measured speed. inches are a load of crap though. mm system far more logical there. i prefer Celsius to fahrenheit to measure temperature.

the guy who was for it just walking around behind everyone who's interviewed after him make me laugh

I like kilometres. I like comparing speeds of trains and other vehicles acrosd the world. What's more important is that nautical miles are different from normal miles, but kilometres are the same everywhere. We don't use normal miles, but nautical miles, for flying and sailing. But we use kilometres for those too.

That soldier is correct. He fought for an emglamd that now they want to chamge. Wonderful man.

@jackdubz4247

2 жыл бұрын

Your spelling is atrocious. Were you educated in England?

This video just shows that nothing has changed: people were and still are stupid

@krashd

2 жыл бұрын

@Ed Ho ho ho, I bet you wrote that one down in your diary as a keeper!

@pinkdiamond1847

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sending this to the next person who complains about "kids these days"

@savannahglebe5165

2 жыл бұрын

@@krashd Seeing as though people today have information at their fingertips at the speed of lightning then yes it was a stupid comment. Who’s to say he was joking?

@Georgiahulse

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve watched a lot of these and I’ve spent a lot of time in archives. People today are without a doubt more distracted, and less articulated and educated than the general population of say 50 years ago.

@1inchPunchBowl

2 жыл бұрын

@@savannahglebe5165 What has accessing information have to do with the average intelligence?

I feel as though the USA would have already switched to the metric system if we called it a kill-o-metre

@eyzmin

Жыл бұрын

we did all the way back in 1866 with the metric act of 1866 and the metric conversion act of 1975, first one made english defined by their metric equivalent (english standards were destroyed in the london tower fire, thats why Imperial was made in 1824, which is a different system, with some diff measurements, 1 us gallon =/= 1 imp gallon), and made Metric an official system of the US. The second on in 1975 dropped english (US customary Units officially) as a system and went with metric only, but left the option for manufacturers to but english measurements if they wanted, which they all do. English was kept as a supplementary system but is not official in the US anymore, want proof, go buy liquor in english, you legally cant, all is in metric with no english equivalent

I can see where the inspiration for Monty Python's 'Pepperpot' women came from!🤣

this is the most chaotic video i’ve ever seen 😂 hahahaha best thing i’ve seen in ages

1:25 Little did this Irish woman know, 26 years, 11 months, 17 days (January 20th, 2005) after that was broadcast, the Republic of Ireland started using Kilometres (Metric system) on the roads.

Kilomolimeteres is much harder to say than miles so I'm all for the imperial system.

@samswift1718

2 жыл бұрын

Thus to be short we can just say K it’s even easier than miles

@jackthebassman1

2 жыл бұрын

Pillock 😜

@PhilMoskowitz

2 жыл бұрын

The shorter word miles makes up for the longer distance.

@pqrstzxerty1296

2 жыл бұрын

Kiloinches it should be.

@krashd

2 жыл бұрын

That's because kilomolimeteres is a made up word, Bill.

It's interesting for me to see that the lack of critical thinking exhibited, especially by the first person interviewed in this video, is not a strictly American phenomenon. I say this as an American, often exasperated by some of my fellow Americans. To be clear, I do love America, and I love Britain.

@overseastom

2 жыл бұрын

I love the human race, but we're definitely a bunch of daft c*nts half the time.

@sevenwatson5854

2 жыл бұрын

This lady was unfortunately not able to experience a good school education in Britain as she was old and born before the welfare reforms of the late 1940s which benefited the poorer classes, so she is exempt.

@Johnnii360

2 жыл бұрын

Funfact: The USA was build of European people also of British and Irish ones. But don't worry it's meanwhile also in Germany. The plandemic injection makes many more stupid.

@stephenspence1192

2 жыл бұрын

@@sevenwatson5854 Both of my parents were educated before ww2 and there was nothing wrong with their mental capabilities.

@PhilMoskowitz

2 жыл бұрын

We do that a lot. For instance it infuriates me when movies that came out decades apart have their box office gross compared, without adjusting for inflation.

I'm English. I grew up in Australia from the age of 7 and now at 24 I've been back in England for three years. Australia uses the metric system exclusively and let me tell you, it's so much better. A lot of people give me funny looks when I describe distances/measurements in in metric units because it's just my go-to. I love both countries, but if I could change something about England it would be to use the metric system exclusively like Australia/Europe/the majority of the world.

@rustshoo5068

Жыл бұрын

Whereas in the past, in Australia, everything was several hundred miles down the road, now everything is even further away. Indeed thousands, even tens of thousands of kilometres, and tens of syllables, up the road. I would have thought Australia would stick with the mile.

@TRPGpilot

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you 100%. Time to ditch that useless mile.

@Robert-cu9bm

Жыл бұрын

@@rustshoo5068 That's why the fuel is so cheap there, to make up for the efficiency loss.

Thanks for uploading this it's pure gold, I'm going to be chuckling all afternoon.

The arguments they put forward can be summed up as: "my feelings"

"I don't want to know" sums up the mindset completely.

@paddy1437

2 жыл бұрын

FFS. different era you smug git

@Hcam

2 жыл бұрын

And it's bloody great 👍

@stephenspence1192

2 жыл бұрын

She was an elderly lady coming to the end of her life. Why should she want to know?

@davidbull7210

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenspence1192 Not referring to her particularly.

19th century lady driving around a small electric car. 1978 rocked... .

The first woman here is like 1752 when the calendar changed from Julian to Gregorian and some thought they had lost 11 days of their life. There were riots....

"Petrol prices keep going up and up and up - but I will keep putting 20 pounds worth into my tank - nobody can change me... They can increase the price but I will only spend 20 pounds - I will be the winner and there's nothing they can do ! "

@jfluffydog2110

2 жыл бұрын

Whats wrong with that logic?

@rrbh

2 жыл бұрын

@@jfluffydog2110 Less and less miles per gallon for the twenty pounds - obviously.

@jfluffydog2110

2 жыл бұрын

@@rrbh I know that, but if can't afford to spend more then they aren't going to get more money out of you. Also, its fewer not less.

@rrbh

2 жыл бұрын

@@jfluffydog2110 Correct ! Go to the top of the class... and jump off ! (c) Spike Milligan.

Just a PSA for the people in this comment section who think the US (english) system and the Imperial system are the same, they are not, the US does not and never has used Imperial. imperial was invented in 1824, almost 50 years after the US became a country, they are slightly different, mainly volumes. 1 us gallon=/= 1 imperial gallon, but 1 us mile = 1 imperial mile

I love the Irish woman “why don’t ya leave everything alone what wit ye kilometres and “

‘Britain used to rule the world’ All your former colonies are using metric 😂

@327legoman

2 жыл бұрын

They also spend years learning English, one of the most complicated languages in the world, And this guy can't even be arsed learning a superior measurement system from fellow colonist France. 😂

@bluedick321

Ай бұрын

'Cept the good old U.S of A

“People fear what they don’t understand, hate what they cant conquer”

1:46 great saying, really snappy and to the point 🙃🙃🙃

These are such precious recordings :)

Sad how little has changed in 2022. Instead of a guy who thinks he fought a war to stop miles becoming kilometres we have people who think their great grandfathers did the same.

@charleshowie2074

Жыл бұрын

If that is why this guy fought the war, surely his grandson is right to say that is why he fought it?

@obsoleteworlds

Жыл бұрын

@@charleshowie2074 this is objectively not the reason that anybody ever fought a war. Perpetuating other people's ignorance doesn't make anybody right.

@charleshowie2074

Жыл бұрын

@@obsoleteworlds Do you not count this as a primary source? Why not?

@frenchguitarguy1091

Жыл бұрын

@@charleshowie2074 explain why they'd have a right then? I have grandparents and great grandparents who fought and died for the French and British, I don't feel entitled to say why they fought in it, nor should it justify decisions we made today. They lived in a different world, one that clinging onto will do us no good.

@charleshowie2074

Жыл бұрын

@@frenchguitarguy1091 Who would have a right to what?

Is the last guy really saying he fought WWII against kilometers?

The first lady, LOL Where abroad did she travel? Wales?

@meh3247

2 жыл бұрын

Isle of Man - THIS IS A LOCAL SHOP, FOR LOCAL PEOPLE.

A dimensional portal to this time and space opened in 2016. Unfortunately is only one way

Michael Caine's finest performance., that first character there.

All the characters of Pygmalion turned up for this here video governor.

I feel for the war guy. He must have often dreamed of home during that time. Coming back and seeing that things have changed and that the home you'd dreamed of for ten years does not exist anymore and never will again, that must be hard.

@a9ev

Жыл бұрын

and his 10 years were someone elses 12

@malfactor1

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, I see a disturbing lack of sympathy for some of these older folks in the comments here. They'll say "well of course, its easier to divide by tens than threes and fours", but it's orthogonal to the context of these interviews

God I love this video❤ I come back way to often to watch this

The only man to have fought in WW2 for ten years!

@StevieCooper

2 жыл бұрын

LOL!

@Channel567-7

2 жыл бұрын

Oddly, I see his point. You see many did actually serve much longer than after the war ended. My Father was in WW2 sent at 19 years of age to Burma, to fight the Japanese. He ended up staying within the army and in India.

@moodyb2

2 жыл бұрын

? Many British soldiers remained abroad, in the defeated countries as part of the occupying forces and it is entirely understandable if they regarded it all as part of the same enterprise.

@Channel567-7

2 жыл бұрын

@@moodyb2 I think you mean liberated not occupying the country.

@darryljones3009

2 жыл бұрын

Hiroo Onoda: Wow! Just ten?

"Now we're being part of a community, I don't agree with it at all." - Brexit voters right there

And so many years later people still ask me how much 1kg is despite buying all of their groceries by kg…

@TRPGpilot

Жыл бұрын

Tell them is stone instead ha ha, boggles the mind.

When you struggle to help elderly relatives who never wanted anything to do with this modern, flash in the pan, computer nonsense.

@danieleyre8913

Жыл бұрын

I had an elderly relative who couldn’t imagine what anyone could possibly eat at one of those Indian curry places.

I love the lady at 1:33. She’s so lovely and lighthearted.

@80PercentScottish

Жыл бұрын

I love the way she rolls off and they just film it 😂.

The guy at the end had a very good point.

@multienergico9299

Жыл бұрын

No he didn't

We still have signs in miles on the roads. When you buy wood they sell it in inches thick and metres in length. I know my height, waist and inside leg in inches and think most British people do. This is how clothes are sold even today. So we have a weird mix even today.

@fidelcatsro6948

2 жыл бұрын

How many "stones" do you weigh?? 🤪😜🤪👌

@DenkyManner

2 жыл бұрын

And Boris wants to "bring it back" to appeal to the morons who don't realise it never went away as they are too dumb to even know what it is in first place

@coolmacatrain9434

2 жыл бұрын

@@fidelcatsro6948 We still use "Stones" in Ireland for a variety of things

@richardsawyer5428

2 жыл бұрын

Watching a video about a Stinger missile where imperial and metric (millimetres and feet) were said in the same sentence and it made perfect sense. I navigate by foot on metres and kilometres but drive using yards and miles. I can only weigh stuff in kilos as I can easily visualise that; 1kilo = 1litre of water.

@Channel567-7

2 жыл бұрын

@@fidelcatsro6948 15, my weighing scale is older. I can’t even bother with effing kilos.

These are like sketches out of a Dick Emery Show type of programme. "It's kill ah meters innit?"

I actually think the whole nationalism over miles is a bit ridiculous, especially post-Brexit, I think this nonsense over wanting to be special in every single way compared to the rest of Europe just comes across as petty and insecure

@mydogeatspuke

2 жыл бұрын

Have you ever met another person? humans are petty and insecure. Objectively speaking, we are a terrible species.

@PUSB_96

2 жыл бұрын

This is from 1970s 🤡

@bg4928

2 жыл бұрын

@@PUSB_96 Yes but people today still harbour this mentality and its just backward and embarassing

@jaymercer4692

Жыл бұрын

@@bg4928 The reason people find this video so fascinating and hilarious is because most of us don’t think this way. Even the elderly generations understand metric is simpler and there wouldn’t be a good reason to switch back to a more complicated system for no practical reason.

@roro-mm7cc

Жыл бұрын

@@jaymercer4692 “switch back”.. but we still use miles not km. All the road signs are in miles and speedometers read mph in cars.

Don’t believe she travelled abroad a lot 😂😂😂

@BillOweninOttawa

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe to Bromley on the weekends.

@deanstanley5799

2 жыл бұрын

@@BillOweninOttawa 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@PurityVendetta

2 жыл бұрын

I think she once went to the Isle of Wight 😆

@overseastom

2 жыл бұрын

She probably thought she traveled vast distances because someone told her far she'd gone in feet instead of miles :P

@davidbull7210

2 жыл бұрын

She is a broad (an older one)

i love these people! all so unique

0:22 Kilomolometers are indeed shorter and better for standards across countries.

The interviewer cherry picks people that highlight the context they want to convey and usually has 1 or 2 opposing views 'for balance'. It's done to this day. I only realised the extent of this after having watched two Panorama episodes that were on subjects I knew very well. I stopped watching Panorama after that as no longer believed them.

@andlinux

2 жыл бұрын

Controlled media.

@annother3350

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, remember they were exposed with their pants down in Panodrama

@original.dwornboy

2 жыл бұрын

It's not the interviewer cherry picking..... He will talk to everyone.... Final say what Auntie will show is the editor back a Broadcasting House.

@moodyb2

2 жыл бұрын

There was one producer, in the past few years, I can't say it was Panorama, who was reported to have boasted back at the office that it had taken him all day to find ONE person on a London estate who had anything positive to say about immigration, and THAT was the only opinion he used in his clip....

@Littletime839

2 жыл бұрын

@@moodyb2 I laughed at this but then it struck me that it isn't actually funny, it's sinister!

An interesting handful of characters. “It’s the treaty of Rome, as my husband would put it.” The posh-voiced young lady who says that at the trader’s stall may well be married to a much older, more knowledgeable, discerning gentleman. The tall, white-haired European gentleman with the Eastern European accent, in his light brown coat and next to the pugnacious Irish lady (husband and wife? Matching coat colours and easily at loggerheads) sounds exasperated by the imperial weights-and-measures system and cannot understand the inefficiency of, as well as the wilful self-harm, of the English. He hovers sinisterly around other interviewees, presaging the condescension of Brussels to come. Though I suspect he’s glad the British won the war, is indebted to Britain, but he just wants the eccentric old Brits to better protect themselves in the future. Was he an ex-Polish Army veteran of the war? (The Catholic marriage with that Irish lady, hence). And was he consumed by the need to get Britain back on its feet now that the Western Europeans were by then marching onwards and upwards? The Treaty Of Rome and all that! “I travel abroad a lot” declares grandiosely the first-lady interviewee, her lovely deep London accent ringing across the decades from the streets of Nineteen Seventy-eight. Her scarf, a signifier of a working-class background, she probably took to the Continent with her, to transform herself into a Audrey Hepburn type roaming the roads around the breezy Côte D’Azure or Rome, scarf and additional sunglasses to prevent too much intrusion from passersby spotting the smiles bursting from the open-top car (or was it when she was leaning out of the passenger-side window of a delivery truck driven by her man doing his seasonal Continental collections?) as she eats up the miles, spitting those dastardly, toxic, long-winded kilometres out of the exhaust. The difference today is that we can all claim to travel abroad a lot now. To reprise the grandiosity inherent in the tone the lady had had, one must airily say that one is going to Picchu Manchu or “Vegas”. As one often does, these days. So there’s no point in aping humility: at least our lady friend in scarf is too honest to do that! Anyway, look at the flakes of snow falling down around our beloved first interviewee: I recall that there was a lot of snow in both early 1978 and late seventy-eight. We either got six inches of snow, or a foot. Our first lady is of a generation that if told fifteen centimetres of snow was going to fall, would dismiss that as alarmism. “Sounds pitifully small. Centimetres are tiny, aren’t they?” But for the average Briton, six inches of snow is a good snowfall that would slow life right down. A foot of snow is bad and very concerning indeed. (Imagine trying to say thirty centimetres of snow or a third of a metre of snow to the old guard: the old guard would believe that conspirators are trying to undermine the nation. And I can understand that. It is so much easier and fun to say a foot of snow than thirty centimetres of snow: anything that lessens the fun and ease must be the first hints of authoritarianism). The WW2 vet who took ten years before he was demobbed sets out his stall in no uncertain terms: the fight against tyranny continues as it is now a fight against the tyranny of the metric system. Presumably the grand turn to decimalisation on 15th of February 1971 was, in that strapping veteran’s mind, … war by other means. To be fair to him, any major change in society hints at a tendency to forget the past and past sacrifices, and all he wants is, going by this old news piece, to take the opportunity yet again to remind young folk about Chamberlain and “the war”. A quick and snappy TV interview is reminding the punks in three-TV-channel Britain about the war - by other means. The lady in the electric pavement mobility vehicle (a Tesla today?) knows she can cover a lot of ground in an hour. Four miles did she say she could do? Her speedometer must be in miles per hour. Now if she took it on the actual road, she might floor it, and go an amazing speed. Speed in the UK is still associated with miles and not kilometres. Kilometres sounds too effeminate, not Top Gun enough. Too many syllables equals too much fussiness, too much thinking. In fact!

@venmis137

2 жыл бұрын

Are you a journalist?

@rustshoo5068

2 жыл бұрын

Lockdown did it. I just try to engage well. And see the funny side. Of things. Plus I read a fair few books; I got back into reading books. Various. A.A. Gill is a great writer.

@327legoman

2 жыл бұрын

I'm Impressed.

@lisamarieashby2523

2 жыл бұрын

Too many syllables applies to your eternal comment as well, imo.

@callumc2061

Жыл бұрын

What an adventure

If they did this street survey again in 2022, I'm sure they would get the same kind of responses. The British are still reluctant to use Km's even when it makes so much sense.

@antman5474

2 жыл бұрын

But we think in miles.

@Markcain268

2 жыл бұрын

That's because all the road signs are in miles and yards

@moodyb2

2 жыл бұрын

? How does it "make more sense"? The Imperial units systems were second nature to those who were raised in them. Even today I've never heard any Brit, of any age, express their weight in anything other than stones and pounds, or describe any distance in kilometres.

@antman5474

2 жыл бұрын

@@moodyb2 We use both. Food, fuel and temperature tend to be metric and most people know their weight in kilos. Metric is also favoured in the workplace. Measurement's can go either way though, we use both metric and imperial but beer and motoring are imperial. I buy my fuel in liters but measure my vehicle's fuel consumption using imperial.

@mattabouttrails

2 жыл бұрын

Being consistent makes sense. Almost every country uses the metric system.

Those folk peddling the metric system to us all ... you give them an inch ... they take a mile !!

@onlyme219

2 жыл бұрын

Very good :)

@anonUK

2 жыл бұрын

1.609 kilometres, you mean.

@BillOweninOttawa

2 жыл бұрын

Good one!

@Akoonah

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't touch the Imperial system with a 3.048 metre barge pole

@onlyme219

2 жыл бұрын

@@Akoonah funny af :)

They started to teach us the metric system in the early to mid 1970s, as the U.S. was changing to the metric system. That never happened as Americans were even more stubborn than the British.

@stephenspence1192

2 жыл бұрын

Good for them!

@marknewbold2583

2 жыл бұрын

Even thicker you mean

@TheRip72

2 жыл бұрын

The US officially went metric many years ago, but nobody uses it. I can't work that one out either.

@327legoman

2 жыл бұрын

As I like to say to confuse Japanese or American friends, Britain is the only country where we go to a supermarket, buy our food in grams, buy our milk in pints, fill up our cars in litres, then drive them home to miles per gallon. We consider ordering a 12 inch pizza, but choose a 7 inch because we're 1 stone over weight and we're trying to cut a down just few centimetres off our waist to fit into a new dress.

@baileyharrison1030

Жыл бұрын

At least America has the economy to back up their stubbornness. The UK depends heavily on imports from Europe as they're a shell of their former selves.

The first woman is the grandmother of that girl who can't understand pizza slices...

Funny, I have no recollection of this Monty Python sketch.

AHH, the Great British Public. Just as toe-curling 44 years ago as they are today.

@onlyme219

2 жыл бұрын

Are you British?

@AA-hi6os

2 жыл бұрын

@@onlyme219 just you, apparently.

@anonUK

2 жыл бұрын

Many times more so.

@atmywitsend1984

2 жыл бұрын

I am trying to figure out if that is meant as a compliment or an insult. In my mind it is an insult,as toe curling means the same as cringable. I am proud of being British,not so proud of our useless government though. As they attempt to globalise us. No one asked us if we want this. " we will own nothing and be happy" translation: "we will have nothing including free will,and the elites will be happy"

@Jason-wm5qe

2 жыл бұрын

Notice that David sees himself above “they”, the ordinary public. David is a better, more civilised individual who cringes at the ordinary folk.

I reckon it was a mistake dropping the league as the standard unit of distance for civilised people. I just can't fathom why they did that.

@tooyoungtobeold8756

Жыл бұрын

They lost the pattern for seven league boots.

@baileyharrison1030

Жыл бұрын

League was never a proper unit in a modern sense. It was just a rough measure of how far you can walk in an hour.

@2adamast

Жыл бұрын

@@baileyharrison1030 You mean they counted 2 winter leagues for 1 summer league?

@danieleyre8913

Жыл бұрын

@@baileyharrison1030 Wrong. League is (was) one of the standard Imperial units. 1lea= 3mi. And was used widespread until the adoption of metric in the 1960s.

This was broadcast when I was only a few weeks old. Crazy that the UK is still stuck on the old imperial system I never learned at school.

1:46 “ive got a little old saying” Continues to talk for 5 minutes about the war 😄

I think some of these people had been sucking on leaded tailpipe fumes for kicks. Granted, decimalisation was used as an excuse to raise prices, but it IS more sensible than £/s/d...and metrication was a long overdue nod to LOGIC. WWII veteran reckons he was defending Avoirdupois from the evil forces of Metric!

@moodyb2

2 жыл бұрын

No, he reckoned he was defending his way of life, which included pounds and miles. But you knew that.

@krashd

2 жыл бұрын

@@moodyb2 If your life is defined by units of measurement you may as well just open your wrists and quit, my grandfather fought to defend inches of land, not to defend the word inch.

@mg4361

2 жыл бұрын

@@moodyb2 His way of life also did not include computers, TV, jet planes, internet or anything else that was not widspread or existed in the 40s.

@stephenlee5929

2 жыл бұрын

As you say change from £/s/d to £p was used to increase prices, as has been the case with moves to kg from lb also Litres from Gallons. Why is £p better than £/s/d? Share £1 between 3, 6 or 8 people, there isn't any number of people you could share with in £p that you can't in £/s/d, butt lots the other way round..

@saxongreen78

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenlee5929 Much easier to calculate - less chance for accounting errors - compatible with all other currencies.

They weren't too keen, then. I was three in 1978. Oh well, we're still using miles so they didn't have to get too disgruntled after all.

The second character is clearly Morgana Robinson! Classic stuff!

0:54 My hero!

One thing people seem not to realise is that decimal currency and measurements are easier to teach in school. I remember being taught to add and subtract l.s.d. in school and then suddenly it stopped. One less thing to learn as far as I was concerned.

@thebobbrom7176

Жыл бұрын

Which also means there is far more time for everything else. It's why personally I'm in favour of them teaching IPA in schools. The amount of time we spend on spelling is rediculous especially as how something is spelled rarely actually relates too much to how it sounds.

@un-hyphenated1463

Жыл бұрын

@@thebobbrom7176 this is the first time I have come across someone else who wants IPA taught. Every time I come across a new word from another language (which I have to do a lot in my degree) or struggle to pronounce a foreign name I wish IPA was taught at school. I can imagine how useful for learning English it would be for children especially with how much more valuable a clear (read: southern) pronunciation is on the international job market.

@thebobbrom7176

Жыл бұрын

@@un-hyphenated1463 Funnily enough that's always the argument you see against it "But it'll get rid of local dialects" But like you said that's kind of a good thing those dialects often are used to keep people in certain positions. I come from a working class town in Essex and yeah even I learned at a young age using the local dialect wouldn't get me far in life

@peterd788

6 ай бұрын

I used to convert each into pennies, do the subtraction and convert the result back into lsd in my head. In school we were taught to use metric instead of imperial units for everything except pressure.

No wonder brexit happened 😂

Ok. This is epic. In every possible meaning.

That's why I'm measuring in light years, hadn't had to refuel my car since I bought it

Glad to see things haven't changed in over 40 years. 6 out 8 English people love their ignorance and feel offended when they need to understand anything.

@TRPGpilot

Жыл бұрын

So very true!