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🗓️ 19 June 2024
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0:00.0 | Anyways, anyways, so all of this led me to where, I guess in my deep in my heart, I knew this is going all along, which is that there is a crazy faction of right wing people in the UK that have decided to make like a proud boys, but for the metric system, for being anti-metric. |
0:22.4 | In 2001, the active resistance to metrication formed in the UK in the wake of a, |
0:30.7 | they're called ARM for short, by the way, arm. |
0:34.9 | They formed in the UK in the wake of a controversy about a vendor, a street vendor who got |
0:40.9 | fined for selling a bunch of bananas by the pound, because this is during like a time |
0:47.4 | when they were trying to make the metric system a thing or whatever. |
0:51.8 | It's been a process over there. |
0:54.5 | They kind of have both, |
0:55.8 | but they were trying to implement the metric system, |
0:58.7 | and he was fined for it, |
1:00.1 | which does seem like a fucking dick move. |
1:01.7 | I think there was like an undercover cop who was like, |
1:04.0 | you busted mate. |
1:06.5 | That's supposed to be a fucking... |
1:10.0 | Whatever the fuck. |
1:11.5 | Waits and measurements squad, like doing line order weights and measurements. |
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