Demise of the Millibar.

[dakkg651]

I see that from November, the use of the Millibar is forbidden.

We have all got to kow-tow to some foreign bloke called Hector Pascal even though he uses exactly the same system of measuring air pressure!

The change will cost a fortune that the CAA will undoubtably pass on to their customers.

Another victory for the frogs perhaps?

[reynoldsno1]

hPa have been in use for years and years ..... this is not a recent or sudden change

[EESDL]

Millibar had to go - it couldn't take the pressure......she was feeling under the weather.........

[Exascot]

I see that from November, the use of the Millibar is forbidden.

Where was this announced?

What about inches? Or will that have to be changed to centimetres?

[Helen49]

A needless change of terminology. The system aint broke, no need to fix it. Just one heck of a lot of documentation changes!

[sangiovese.]

And I thought it might be a thread about the demise of the military bar and the 2 can rule ....

[teeteringhead]

OMG! ..as the youth put it these days...

..... so 1013 mb will now be ...... err ...1013 hPa - how will we ever manage ....

[D120A]

I see this as a huge conspiracy by the coalition government. You wait and see, soon we will not be allowed to call them the brothers Miliband, we will have to refer to them as HectoRascals.

[Pontius Navigator]

They'll be getting rid of centigrade next and using someat else for miles per hour.

It'll really tie us up in knots.

[green granite]

It seems to be a long term goal of science to remove any term that might just possibly useful in it's descriptive nature and replace it with something that means nothing to anyone for example foot-pounds into newtons.

[Tankertrashnav]

Are the cousins still using inches?

[cazatou]

Ttn

I don't know - but their Pints are still a short measure!!!

[Blacksheep]

The Milly Bar? In Changi Village? I stopped using it in 1971.

[Whenurhappy]

It's part of the New World Order to creat a race of zombies who accept that we will have an EU Army to patrol our streets and stop using English words and insist on Sharia Law and the return of President Blair and the Davos Economics clacque controlled by the Vatican. Meanwhile, the old buffers down at the Legion will be banned from wearing blazers with Regimental and Squadron badges because this doesn't comply with EU legislation and the world 'Royal' will be dropped and replaced with Federal and....(sound of black Omega pulling up outside)*



* Oh no it wasn't. It was a Community Care Ambulance responding to a PPruner call.

[Ali Qadoo]

Actually, it's a new EU Directive that's been introduced by a French MEP, Monsieur Pithblot.

[Vortex81]

Actually, it's a new EU Directive that's been introduced by a French MEP, Monsieur Pithblot.

He must have been pithed when he blotted that one out.

[ShyTorque]

I'm just not going to let this get to me.

However, as a protest I'm not ever going to use the word "hectopascal" on the radio (never said "millibar" before either, come to think about it).

So when I read back the altimeter setting numbers they think I'll be going along with their little plan and setting their nice, shiny little, EU mandated "hectopascals".

But all along I'll be thinking "Millibars, yeh!"

Sometimes I'm so rebellious I even surprise myself....

[cazatou]

Checking in our very large French/English dictionary the French "Hectopascals" converts to "Millibars" in English.

[sitigeltfel]

Millibars? Full of expensive booze and overpriced snacks. The cause of many arguments when checking out in the morning.

[Two's in]

Are the cousins still using inches?

Yes, still inches. How else would you remember 29.92 is the standard atmsosphere?

As cazatou suggests, Beer is still short measured in 16 fl oz pints, but that's largely academic because it all comes in 12 oz bottles.

Amazingly a mile is still 5,280 feet, but for some reason yards seem to have fallen into disrepute as unit of measure - and nobody has a clue what a meter(re) is, other than something for measuring electricity consumption.