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"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message
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Don Pearce wrote:

Actually, we haven't really gone SI either. My height is not quite six
feet - I couldn't tell you what I am in metres.

Me neither, I still think of distances in miles too, although if pushed I
can do Km's.

I don't know if this is common useage but a pal of mine in
the UK, who has a mobile home and spends six months of
the year outside the UK told me he thinks of distances in kms,
but speeds in mph. Is petrol still sold by the gallon in the UK?

I was watching a rerun of "Heartbeat" on satelite last night. I
laughed out loud when the garage proprietor, Bernie Scripps
said that he thought the price of petrol was outrageous, but
that he could not imagine it ever going over 5 shillings a
gallon:-)

Iain

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Iain Churches wrote:
"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message
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Don Pearce wrote:

Actually, we haven't really gone SI either. My height is not quite six
feet - I couldn't tell you what I am in metres.
Me neither, I still think of distances in miles too, although if pushed I
can do Km's.

I don't know if this is common useage but a pal of mine in
the UK, who has a mobile home and spends six months of
the year outside the UK told me he thinks of distances in kms,
but speeds in mph. Is petrol still sold by the gallon in the UK?


Nah, petrol is in litres, very few people could convert it to gallons.


I was watching a rerun of "Heartbeat" on satelite last night. I
laughed out loud when the garage proprietor, Bernie Scripps
said that he thought the price of petrol was outrageous, but
that he could not imagine it ever going over 5 shillings a
gallon:-)

I can remember when it was 2 shillings and six pence per gallon...unfortunately. :)

--
Bill Coombes

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"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message
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Iain Churches wrote:
"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message
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Don Pearce wrote:

Actually, we haven't really gone SI either. My height is not quite six
feet - I couldn't tell you what I am in metres.
Me neither, I still think of distances in miles too, although if pushed
I can do Km's.

I don't know if this is common useage but a pal of mine in
the UK, who has a mobile home and spends six months of
the year outside the UK told me he thinks of distances in kms,
but speeds in mph. Is petrol still sold by the gallon in the UK?


Nah, petrol is in litres, very few people could convert it to gallons.


I was watching a rerun of "Heartbeat" on satelite last night. I
laughed out loud when the garage proprietor, Bernie Scripps
said that he thought the price of petrol was outrageous, but
that he could not imagine it ever going over 5 shillings a
gallon:-)

I can remember when it was 2 shillings and six pence per
gallon...unfortunately. :)

When I got my first car, an Austin A35, it was 4/11 a gallon.
It quickly rose to 5s, which seemed expensive. Funny now
to look back on it, four gallons for a quid:-)

Once you stat thinking in litres, and kilometres, the old
concept of mpg no longer works. Litres/100 km is fine
when you get used to it.

Iain

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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:07:25 +0200, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

Is petrol still sold by the gallon in the UK?

Nope. And we've stopped mentally converting, it's too depressing.

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"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message
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Don Pearce wrote:

Actually, we haven't really gone SI either. My height is not quite six
feet - I couldn't tell you what I am in metres.

Me neither, I still think of distances in miles too, although if pushed I
can do Km's.

I don't know if this is common useage but a pal of mine in
the UK, who has a mobile home and spends six months of
the year outside the UK told me he thinks of distances in kms,
but speeds in mph. Is petrol still sold by the gallon in the UK?

Petrol is sold by the ltre, but we still calculate consumption in miles per
gallon (except for an eccentric friend of mine, who quotes the fuel
consumption on his pre-war Lagonda in leagues per firkin).

Geoff

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"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message
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Don Pearce wrote:

Actually, we haven't really gone SI either. My height is not quite six
feet - I couldn't tell you what I am in metres.

Me neither, I still think of distances in miles too, although if pushed
I can do Km's.

I don't know if this is common useage but a pal of mine in
the UK, who has a mobile home and spends six months of
the year outside the UK told me he thinks of distances in kms,
but speeds in mph. Is petrol still sold by the gallon in the UK?

Petrol is sold by the ltre, but we still calculate consumption in miles
per gallon

So everyone can convert gallons into litres?

(except for an eccentric friend of mine, who quotes the fuel consumption
on his pre-war Lagonda in leagues per firkin).

I like that:)


Iain

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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:27:10 +0200, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

Petrol is sold by the ltre, but we still calculate consumption in miles
per gallon

So everyone can convert gallons into litres?

It's odd. We think mpg but price-per-litre. The two figures never
really connect. As rationing or reducing our car mileage is, of
course, psychologically unthinkable, every journey we make being
ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL, I suppose we don't WANT to know the important
figure - cost-per-mile.

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On 22 Jan, wrote:

Dragging this back towards being on topic for the group, it reminds me
of a paper on 'capacitor sound' sic? I read some time ago where they
did one form of analysis after another, each failing to show any
difference, until then finally found one that seemed to! :-) The snag
was that so far as I could see, most of their analysis was such that you
could check

Oops! Should have been "...could *not* check..."


how likely the results would have been to be due to simple
random variations. i.e. the root problem wasn't even that the level of
statistical significance was low - it was that it wasn't possible to
even determine the significance in statistical terms!

Slainte,

Jim

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"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:27:10 +0200, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

Petrol is sold by the ltre, but we still calculate consumption in miles
per gallon

So everyone can convert gallons into litres?

It's odd. We think mpg but price-per-litre. The two figures never
really connect. As rationing or reducing our car mileage is, of
course, psychologically unthinkable, every journey we make being
ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL, I suppose we don't WANT to know the important
figure - cost-per-mile.


The reality is that the ever upwardly-fluctuating price of petrol isn't a
deterrent to most people these days and if the guv can get some of the
revenue much-needed to fund its own ineptitude from the planet-wrecking Mass
Chavvery then sans fairy anne. (The most unbelievably crass advertising line
I've heard in a long while is the incredible 'Why buy a car when you can own
a Land Rover?'....!!!)

Since about a fortnight ago, I am now *carless in Gaza* and am loving it -
Swim's car died of old age and neglect just before Christmas, so I gave her
mine. (It means there's only one car parked out the back going nowhere most
of the time now!!)

I have had so many cars in my time I have stopped telling people but I can't
remember when there was any joy in it - for as long as I can remember,
driving anywhere in this neck of the woods (South East/Home Counties) has
been an absolute *chore*. If my circumstances don't change significantly, I
don't see myself ever owning another car; I've got 2 years before I lose my
NCB (or 3 years with some companies) for that to take hold.

Coincidentally, I have also reduced my motorbikes from two to one, so no-one
could say I wasn't doing my bit for the planet!

Now, if only every damn thing in this house didn't have a 'Made In China'
sticker on it....

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"Geoff Mackenzie" wrote

Petrol is sold by the ltre, but we still calculate consumption in miles
per gallon

Who calculates it? People may *talk* about fuel consumption in mpg, but I
doubt that more than a fraction of 1% of car owners actually attempts
measure or calculate it.

David.