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What Renton said.

It's really not. I'm saying what I think, as much as I don't want to, in this instance. Can you clarify to me that you don't think it should be mandatory for shop keepers to use accurate scales and quote the cost of bananas in a standard unit? If you agree they should have to do this, do you think those should be metric or imperial units, or both? Or can they do what they like without state interference, and it's a case of buyer beware? No, I don't think it should be mandatory, I think any business man with good business sense would accept standards set by some sort of union/group with a seal of approval which a customer would look for. I would also differentiate between the small local grocer - a human being, and a large corporation - a legal entity in its own right which has far too much power over a community which is not vigilant enough as it feels it's being looked after. I'm sorry if that idea is so absurd as to be laughable to some, maybe I need to work on breaking things down better, but I will continue to believe that those people need to widen their viewpoint and level of understanding. Edit: Just to clarify if someone is using a rigged scales, yes, that's a crime.

Sorry to disappoint, I'm just finishing up.

It's really not. I'm saying what I think, as much as I don't want to, in this instance.

Just assuming you end up laughing at people's points of view every time we debate something, instead of you talking it out as you apparently love to do.

It's obvious to me too, I'm just waiting for spongebob to clarify so I'm not accused of making an assumption. I'm in no way spoiling for a fight, I was talking about something that interested me.

I don't know what to make of that post.

http://www.google.com/search?hs=SnR&hl...amp;btnG=Search First of all, are you suggesting people should be shopping with a wireless PDA? Secondly, it hasn't given me the answer I want, which is in pounds and ounces, not decimal pounds! I rest my case. My point was that there was very little point in giving you the answer, because I could have cheated, I came up with 4.6 in my head, knowing that was a little out, didn't see a situation where i need to separate out the ounces. Seriously, this kind of maths is a question of doing it regularly, NOT intelligence.

You forgot to divide by 7, but yes, seems pretty basic to me.

http://www.google.com/search?hs=SnR&hl...amp;btnG=Search

Would it not be possible for people to say - you're taking the piss - go back to their council and organise a boycott until he stops taking the piss? Hence they would be able to fend for themselves when issues like this innevitably arose when there was no-one there to protect them? Or would people not have the choice to say, well his prices take the piss, but I still shop there for the banter. Allowing them to make their own decision based on the evidence.

Renton - please tell me your joking about converting that to pounds and dividing by 7?

I'm really not, sorry if you can't keep up, like. Yes, I'm converting imperial-metric on a regular basis, sorry you find it so hard going, I'll think of you this Christmas. "If a bloke wants to run his business into the ground, selling only the lefty-hand side of cabbages, sold by the moon-unit, how can that really be anyone's business but his own?" That was my point btw, I've already said I haven't a clue who this bloke is and that what's being said about his political agenda sounds very plausuble.

Wouldnt that mean she was thirsty though? I think she meant spitting blood. A bit presumptious on my part of course as I'm investing her with my intellgence there, which would clearly be absurd. In fact on mature refelection I'm inclined to believe she actually meant spitting bricks. Jesus wept. There's some feckin' trees on this website.

You got in the way and the comedy moment was lost. I thought of something funny to reply to it, and then you deleted it, but it was the usual one-dimensional ha-ha-homosexual fare, so no loss really. Or something. That's you, that is.

You got in the way and the comedy moment was lost. I thought of something funny to reply to it, and then you deleted it, but it was the usual one-dimensional ha-ha-homosexual fare, so no loss really.

I didn't say I would be able to figure it out, I said that I thought pretty much everyone had the ability to. If you think that the majority of people are genuinely too thick for basic maths and awareness skills, I'd be interested to hear why. I think they have ended up that way, not that they were meant to end up that way. I think it's a bad thing because people are increasingly babied and the majority never take any responsibility for themselves, leaving them increasingly vulnerable when they can't be protected. We're all getting fucked by major corporations because they have the strenth to dodge these laws and the people don't know how to cope. And what happens when the babied citizens get fucked by their government, who protects them then?

Where did your post go, Meenzer?

But you don't want to discuss it.

I also agree that's why it's there.

I think that assumption's half the problem tbh. the mind boggles at how stupid some people can be, but I've never met someone who couldn't understand simple guidelines on not getting ripped off, at the very least they could "phone a friend". It's more laziness than anything else, and if they can't be arsed, maybe they should suffer the consequences. I know if I don't check on the internet before I buy a product I pretty much blame myself if it goes wrong.

Separate issue; unless we want to throw the looney shopkeeper out with the bath-water. Its not really a seperate issue, its basicaly about transparency and standardisation of pricing so Joe Punter can easily see how much he is paying for his banana. The whole metric martyr shebang was just a bit of whipped up europe bashing tosh t try nad make an issue where there wasnt one But if he wanted to up the prices of his bananas, couldn't he do so anyway? Maybe if we gave Joe credit for being able to do a bit of simple maths, the World wouldn't be in the state it's in; it's a stretch, granted. The shit corporations get away with on a daily basis, which is just accepted, makes this even more of a laughable concept. I'm not talking about this specific person btw, don't know who he is, but what you say about him sounds very plausible.

I'm getting a picture in my head, on a scale of one to ten, how close is this picture to Renton? ...

Separate issue; unless we want to throw the looney shopkeeper out with the bath-water.

If a bloke wants to run his business into the ground, selling only the lefty-hand side of cabbages, sold by the moon-unit, how can that really be anyone's business but his own?