This week marks the beginning of the British Platinum Jubilee, celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's 70th year of reign in England.
There are ceremonial military parades, church services, and street parties.
California's own Harry and Meghan forgot their row with the British royal family and jotted over for the celebration, and I'm sure Meghan found it all horribly racist.
While ruling a nation for 70 years is certainly a noteworthy event for the Queen, what really makes this a remarkable event is that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Britain would be shaking loose the final shackles of European rule and returning to the Imperial system of measurement.
That's right, our cousins across the Atlantic will be rejoining America in accurately measuring a pint of beer and traveling in miles instead of meters.
Look at them cheer!
One of the European Union's stipulations for Britain becoming a member was that all commerce had to be conducted using the metric system, and that's always been a sticking point for many Brits, what with their fondness for pints and all.
In fact part of the driver of Brexit was that if a pub wanted to sell beer, they had to label the glass with a CE mark, which stands for Conformitè Europëenne, and signals that the product being sold conforms with European standards of measurement. The mark was a constant reminder of the loss of British uniqueness.
Of course not everyone agrees with the reversion. Asda chairman Lord Rose of Monewden said,
"I've never heard such nonsense in my life. I mean, we have got serious problems in the world and we're now saying let's go backwards.
"Does anybody in this country below the age of about 40 know how many ounces there are in a pound?
"Are we going to go down to the supermarket and say, ‘I'll have a pound and a half please,' or ‘One pound, four ounces' of this or that? We're doing it just to actually please a small minority of people who hark for the past."
And Lord Rose has a point. Even the Conservative party pushing for the change isn't entirely sure how Imperial measurements work anymore.
One member, Lord Parkinson, was quizzed by the media and suggested there are 14 ounces in a pound, when there are 16. He also failed to convert a pound of sausages into grams and offered an answer of 250g. One pound is approximately 450g.
I don't even want to get into the nightmare of relabeling all the merchandise in the nation to reflect the change, much less the textbooks, or if the change will continue beyond Jubilee.
Instead let's just focus on the positive and welcome England back to the right side of measuring things.
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