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This is What You Get When Your Country Gives Up Sovereignty: Meet Janet Devers, Metric System "Criminal"

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By Debbie Schlussel
For years before it joined the European Union, British conservatives warned their fellow countrymen to oppose its entry. Their clarion call proclaimed that Britain would lose its national sovereignty in the most Big Brother of ways. And they were right.
Meet Janet Devers, who runs a modest vegetable stall in a London market. At age 63, she is now facing 13 criminal charges for not selling her produce according to the measurements of the metric system.....



The latest candidate for this rogue's gallery is Janet Devers, a 63-year-old woman who runs a vegetable stall at Ridley Road market. Her alleged crime: selling goods only by the pound and the ounce.



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[bestfriend]

I'm with her. How am I supposed to sell dope by the meter?

[artbyjody]

What is the metric system - is that another Google tool or something? 13 counts wow - I think maybe she was selling more than vegetables myself....although I have never conversed with another woman that said she was 110lbs and 10 ounces. Let the conspiracy theory in the conspiracy for Dewey Decimal begin....

[hellosailor]

The situation isn't much different in the US. Deli counter scales no longer show ounces--or kilos. They show "pounds, decimal" and you can buy .500 pounds, or .680 pounds, but heaven help you if you want say, ten ounces of something. And, it is illegal to sell things by the piece in some states. One butcher here used to sell the pig's head--till he got ticketed for selling it by the piece not the pound.

You can't buy a pint or a quart of potato salad or other loose goods anymore, either. The container is still half/pint/quart sized, but the deli guys don't know that, they have to charge by weight and if you ask for a pint container, they ask "Did you say pound?"

Progress. And minimum wage labor. Doesn't matter if it is metric or not, it is still idiocy compounded by petty facists who never learned how to play well with others.

[KODAD]

That's completely outrageous--(even more outrageous is not knowing what the metric system is, but perhaps that is only a sympton of a larger American problem)
But an even more direct correlation to Ayn Rand is what Hugo Chavez is doing in Venezuela--threatening expropiate banks that fail to meet state imposed requirements to set aside nearly a third of all loans to agriculture, mortgages, and small businees at a 'favorable rate' and to expropiate dairy farms that sell their product out of the country-- It's like 'Atlas Shrugged' in the real world--Scary!!-- I may have to give Ron Paul another look----

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[KODAD]

ragnar (danneskjold, i presume)
so true, and somewhere along the line we have abandoned that approach-- as i look around today, what we used to call 'common sense' is not so common anymore

[artbyjody]

Originally Posted by KODAD

ragnar (danneskjold, i presume)
so true, and somewhere along the line we have abandoned that approach-- as i look around today, what we used to call 'common sense' is not so common anymore

Isn't common cents tied to the market?

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