Pint of Bitter Please
If you’ve just spent a fortune changing from glass to polycarbonate, the change from pints to litres would not have gone down well. Thankfully, the European parliament’s agreement last week not to pursue a fixed date for changeover means that the traditional pint can stay and metric stamped glasses will not be required. While logic clearly states that life can be much easier when divided by ten, it has to be said that nothing can replace ordering the beautiful hop concoction as a pint, especially when local breweries are bucking the trend of falling sales. This is good news for Brits in general, a statement of individualism and uniqueness in what is rapidly becoming a European community directed by zealous organisation and obsessed by regulation. That being said, I would gladly have changed from miles to kilometres: although there are more of them they always go more quickly, and as for the loss of the acre, I could never afford a property in the South of England with more than a hectare of land so rather selfishly I really don’t care – just so long as I can still ask for a pint! Thank you Strasbourg.
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