December 30, 20231 yr Don't you have to be born in Northern Ireland or have an Irish grandparent? I've never actually been to either Northern Ireland or Ireland and no relatives so zilch chance for me. Yes, that’s the way it is. My dad can get one because he had an Irish grandparent but I can’t because I’m too far down the line. Thus people can’t just go and get an Irish passport as was suggested here.
December 30, 20231 yr Author The results of Jack Mogg's consultation on restoring imperial measurements have been announced. Despite Mogg's attempt to make it difficult to vote for the status quo, a whopping 98% of respondents said they were happy with things the way they are. All these decades of the Mail and Express saying people were furious at having to use metric measurements seems to have been a load of bollocks. Still, the government has decided that wine can now be sold by the pint and are claiming it to be a massive benefit from leaving the EU. Why would wine producers waste money on making pint-sized bottles? The whole of the rest of the world (including even the USA) sells wine in 75cl bottles. How much would it cost to produce pint-sized wine bottles for the 23 people who would want to buy them? "I'd like my wine to be sold in smaller amounts". Said nobody, ever.
December 30, 20231 yr No one is gonna manufacture those bottlrs JUST for the UK, and if some Brexit loon does, thwy'll have to charge a lot more for them anyway :lol:
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