O tamanho ate pode nao importar...

mas importa a unidade metrica! Ja muitas vezes em conversa comentei com amigos esta coisa de ate a Republica da Irlanda se ter rendido aos KM/h em vez das mph, e a Irlanda do Norte e a Gra-Bretanha nao quererem saber.
Sei que e uma "violencia" forcar um pais a ceder num "costume" tao antigo, mas por que e que os paises mais ricos e influentes se safam sempre, e os outros e que tem de fazer cedencias e sacrificios?
Quantos sapos ja engoliu Portugal e outros paises "para o bem" da res publica na Uniao Europeia??
Mas claro, a UE tem medo que os eurocepticos aumentem ainda mais no Reino Unido por a "medida" ser "polemica". Ate se fundou um lobby chamado "metric martyrs", veja-se o dramatismo!
E depois ha o reverso da medalha que e multar os comerciantes que nao vendem fruta ao kg! Muita norma comunitaria esta mal... como a fruta que se deita fora por nao ter a calibragem xpto.
Leia-se a noticia!
E aqui ficam os "highlights", ta interessante:
The threat to Britain's imperial measures is to be lifted today after a climbdown by the European commission.The plans to switch over to metric and abandon imperial measures became a cause celebre for Eurosceptics, unhappy about Brussels's intrusion into British life.
Since 1995, goods sold in Europe have had to display metric weights and measurements, but to appease the public outcry in the UK, imperial indications have also been allowed. That concession to British tradition was due to expire in 2009 (...) "This means that measurements such as pints and miles are in no way under threat from Brussels and never will be," (...)Steve Thoburn, who died suddenly in 2004, was convicted in 2001 of selling bananas only by the pound. His offence was to fail to provide customers with the metric equivalent, as required under EU law. (...)But, unlike the Irish, the British are not prepared to consider switching miles to kilometres.
Many traders and consumers might choose to celebrate the lifting of the threat with 0.57 litres of beer - better known as a pint.[meu negrito].