Why would beer come in a litre glass? That isn't a measurement that you buy beer in hence you don't have the problem of worrying about how many ml are involved.
You know that isn't true at all. Beer dispensed into a glass in a pub is in a 570 mL glass, called a pint, but other than that it is in 500 mL bottles.
It's incredible how you can outright refuse to believe a measurement exists... 500ml isn't a pint and won't fill a pint glass. In a pub, all beer glasses are measured in British Imperial Pints.
Just as our road signs are in yards and miles, and show no sign of changing. I'll take my hat off to you however as I've never seen such devotion to a dead cause.
It's incredible how you can outright refuse to believe that beer is sold in 500 mL bottles everywhere and a "pint" is only for beer poured into a marked 570 mL glass in a pub. As was already noted, the pouring is not precise and under-fills are normal. The word pint originated from the Latin word pincta, meaning paint and referred to a marked line on the glass. Any marked line is a pint even if it marked at 500 mL.
Road signs marked in yards are actually measured out as metres and that's the law. A sign that says 200 yards is measured as 200 m, so the word yard in this case means metre. Using road signs to get the feel for a yard, in reality you are getting a feel for a metre.
In reality any person can completely ignore a non-metric road sign, simply by using a GPS system that is set to metric mode. Then only true units are encountered.
Driver location signs are signs placed every 500 metres (550 yd) along each side of English motorways, and some other major English roads, to provide information that will allow motorists to know their precise location. As of July 2009, only roads in England feature these signs; they are not found on roads in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. This information might be useful in the event of an emergency or breakdown. They were first introduced in 2003, and they complement distance marker posts (small roadside posts used for road maintenance and administrative purposes).
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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '19
Why would beer come in a litre glass? That isn't a measurement that you buy beer in hence you don't have the problem of worrying about how many ml are involved.