There are establishments here in the US that sell 'pounders' of 'beer', i.e. 16oz. glasses. The reference is usually to something that only loosely resembles beer - we're back to sex-in-a-canoe jokes here. Establishments that server real beer most often refer to them as pints, although there is evidence some are only 14oz.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:17 AM, ben <bfranc...@jetnet.ab.ca> wrote: > On 8/6/2015 4:30 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > >> On 5 August 2015 at 20:25, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote: >> >>> "A pint is a pound, the world around." is no longer true. >>> >> >> Never was. You always did use weird pints. They were *our* bloody >> silly measure, until we adopted something more sensible and easier to >> use... >> >> And *nobody* else uses pounds, Fahrenheit or MM-DD-YY. Not in about 2 >> generations, mostly. Often more. >> >> I do! > > -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
