By the way…. you do know that, despite the myths peddled by Mister Farage and his ilk, the European Court of Human Rights isn’t an EU institution and predates the EU by decades, don’t you?.

I do know that, if someone doesn’t know something, it’s common courtesy to explain it to them, not talk down to them as to a little child. As I am your obviously intellectual inferior, consider this thread passed, and left, to you.

it’s women over cars for me.

A little too energetic for me; always preferred the comfort of a bed.

Wartime paints were not made to British Standards; B.S. offered their help, during the war, but were turned down, because the Air Ministry preferred to keep control themselves. Colour standards appear to have been generally issued by Farnborough. As an example, when Ocean Grey was “invented,” in late 1941, its colour number was 36.

27-3-39, modification 30 was “To modify locking of cockpit hood.”
12-7-39 mod 31 was “To modify forward catch on emergency door.”
As so often, the mods say what happened, but not what was done, nor why.
3-2-41 mod 320 was “To provide stowage for crowbar for emergency operation of sliding hood.” This was on the Spitfire I & II.
14-8-41 the crowbar was deemed surplus, due to mod 324 “To provide means of jettisoning hood.” This is believed to be the Martin-Baker system, but there’s no concrete evidence.
Presumably wiser counsel prevailed, since 23-1-42, mod 483 was “To re-instate mod 320 stowage of crowbar,” and this was on the Mks I, II, & V, so appears to have been retrospective.
Most common “colour” seems to have been natural steel.

That is probably the funniest and most irrelevant justification of imperial measurements I’ve ever seen.

You are (deliberately?) missing the point, of course, since it was no “justification” of anything; the accusation was that Imperial measurements are arbitrary, so I showed that they came about through general everyday use, which is something the metric system was never designed for, or derived from. Still, it’s always easy to mock what you don’t understand.
Oh, and before you try it on, I’m not calling for the abolition of the metric system, just a recognition that the two can work side-by-side, without any coercion or bullying, just leaving it to the user to make an informed choice.
I was taught the metric system at the age 7, at a time when authority believed that children weren’t too thick to understand them both.

It always strikes me as odd that so many slag off our politicians and yet are willing to put their faith in Farage, one of the worst examples of gravy-train passengers we have.

No worse than those who rode on Tony Blair’s coat-tails.

Are you going to argue that imperial measurements are any less arbitrary? I’ve love to see you make that case.

1 mile = distance you can walk in 1/4 of an hour, or distance travelled by an ox-cart in one hour.
1 yard = distance from tip of nose to outstretched middle finger, used for measuring cloth.
1 foot = obvious.
1 inch = length of end joint of a finger.
1 gallon of water weighs 10 pounds
1 pint = 1/8 of a gallon, or half of half of half a gallon.
1 metre = circumference of the earth, at a certain height (which I don’t know) divided by a figure (which I also don’t know,) only they got the original measurement wrong, to start with, so the metre is a spurious distance.
There wasn’t much going for Napoleon, but he had no time for this 10-obsession, and, if you’re going to use appendages for counting, we should use 21 (20 for women.)
If the French had had their way, you would now have a 10-month year, and a 10-day week (think of the fun of only getting a weekend after 8 days at work,) but Mother Nature got in the way, and it couldn’t be made to work.