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"David Looser" wrote in message
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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.


Just what I was wondering, David.

So in that sense, litres/100kms makes
a lot more sense. Or would litres/100 miles,
or miles/litre be better in the UK? :-))

Iain

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Jim Lesurf wrote:
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bcoombes
bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote:
Arny Krueger wrote:
"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message

What I find interesting is that there were only 2 shuttle failures of
about 100 flights, but the failures were widely chronologically
separated so that if you broke the flight schedule into two
chronological groups of 50 flights, each group of 50 had a failure.
The failures were totally unrelated in terms of when or how they
happened.



The failures were both caused by exactly the same root cause..NASA
engineers not foreseeing something totally obvious. In one case the
effect of cold weather on rubber and in the other the kinetic energy
possessed by falling chunks of foam.

Slightly puzzled to see my name above as I didn't actually write any of
what was quoted!


Yes sorry that can be irritating, careless trimming on my part...this thread has
'developed' to the point where it's easy to loose track of who said what.

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Bill Coombes

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"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote


Yes sorry that can be irritating, careless trimming on my part...this
thread has 'developed' to the point where it's easy to loose track of who
said what.


'Loose'...???

Are you a Yank then, Bill..??

:-)

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bcoombes
bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:


Slightly puzzled to see my name above as I didn't actually write any
of what was quoted!


Yes sorry that can be irritating, careless trimming on my part...this
thread has 'developed' to the point where it's easy to loose track of
who said what.

I lose track anyway. Peril of being retired and an academic. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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Keith G wrote:

"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote


Yes sorry that can be irritating, careless trimming on my part...this
thread has 'developed' to the point where it's easy to loose track of
who said what.


'Loose'...???

Are you a Yank then, Bill..??


Y'all STFU.
Kind Regards
Bill Coombes


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"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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"David Looser" wrote in message
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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.


Just what I was wondering, David.

So in that sense, litres/100kms makes
a lot more sense. Or would litres/100 miles,
or miles/litre be better in the UK? :-))

Since we still use miles rather than Km on road signs and speedometers
miles/litre might be easier.

I do find it odd that car adverts still specify fuel consumption in
miles/gallon, when half the population has no idea what a gallon is.

Pre-packed liquids (such as drinks) are sold by the litre, unless it's milk
when it's sold by the pint. Where's the sense in that?

David.

Iain

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"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote


Yes sorry that can be irritating, careless trimming on my part...this
thread has 'developed' to the point where it's easy to loose track of
who said what.


'Loose'...???

Are you a Yank then, Bill..??


Y'all STFU.
Kind Regards
Bill Coombes



Yo' sheeyaadaaap yo'self, beeyatch....

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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote in message


It is hard for people here to comprehend
that your own city of Detroit, Arny
has an illiteracy rate according to a United Nations
report of 46%.

I suspect that Scandinavians with adequate backgrounds in sociology can
understand the cause of the problem.


Everyone can understand the cause of problem.
What they cannot understand is why nothing
has been done about it. It looks as if the social
infrastructure, ( incl education and health care for all)
which is regarded here as so important, has low
priority for you:-(

We used to see a large number of American tourists here.
The people of other nations seem to travel normally, but
now, due to the recession, the weakness of the USD
and fear of terrorist attacks on aircraft American tourists
have all but disappeared.

You could always pick them out, he in his Rupert The Bear
trousers, and she with her blue rinse. Not long ago, a couple
stopped me outside their Helsinki hotel. The lady looked at
me over her pince nez and said, "We want to get to the Palace"
I replied, "The Palace Hotel? It is on the harbour about 1km
from here" She said: "No, the palace where the royals live"
Either she did not know that Finland is a republic, or she
thought she was in Stockholm, Copenhagen or Oslo:-)

The only words uttered by the gentleman were that "I
spoke English great"

I cringe when I hear Americans say: "You did good" when they
mean "You did well" To "do good" means to perform a virtuous
or charitable act. Much comment was made here about the
tribute paid, on the death of Princess Diana by an American
intellectuelle, who said: "She was good people"

http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...ion_cleese.htm


Iain

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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote in message


It is hard for people here to comprehend
that your own city of Detroit, Arny
has an illiteracy rate according to a United Nations
report of 46%.

I suspect that Scandinavians with adequate backgrounds
in sociology can understand the cause of the problem.


Everyone can understand the cause of problem.
What they cannot understand is why nothing
has been done about it.

A great deal has been "done about it", its just that much of it created the
problem and/or made it worse.

Social engineering is not an exact science yet, I fear.

It looks as if the social
infrastructure, ( incl education and health care for all)
which is regarded here as so important, has low
priority for you:-(

Both work well in most of the US. Detroit is presently a bit of a special
case. Heck, the social infrastructure worked well in Detroit as well, back
in the day.

We used to see a large number of American tourists here.

Something about the value of the dollar making Europe a cheap thrill. These
things saw back and forth.

The people of other nations seem to travel normally, but
now, due to the recession, the weakness of the USD
and fear of terrorist attacks on aircraft American
tourists have all but disappeared.

Maybe they found out that Europe wasn't what it was cracked up to be.

It does get a little old watching people quake in their boots and bow to
Islam.

You could always pick them out, he in his Rupert The Bear
trousers, and she with her blue rinse.

Hint: the blue rinse has even gone out of style over here. Note that we
often send people out of the country after we tire of them. ;-)

Not long ago, a
couple stopped me outside their Helsinki hotel. The lady
looked at me over her pince nez and said, "We want to get
to the Palace" I replied, "The Palace Hotel? It is on the
harbour about 1km from here" She said: "No, the palace
where the royals live" Either she did not know that
Finland is a republic, or she thought she was in
Stockholm, Copenhagen or Oslo:-)

Last time I looked there was no intelligence test required to get a passport
or buy a plane ticket.

The only words uttered by the gentleman were that "I
spoke English great"

Which no doubt hurt your ears due to the vernacular syntax.

I cringe when I hear Americans say: "You did good" when
they mean "You did well" To "do good" means to perform a
virtuous or charitable act. Much comment was made here
about the tribute paid, on the death of Princess Diana
by an American intellectuelle, who said: "She was good
people"

Which no doubt hurts your ears due to the vernacular syntax.

It's part of the high price of being a stuffed shirt, it appears.


http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...ion_cleese.htm

If it were only that easy to annex places, we might have held onto Europe
and the UK after we rescued you all from Hitler. We saw what a mess you
were, and decides to leave the inmates in charge of the asylum. Watching you
all try to unite yourself as we did over 300 years ago is getting old. Just
do it!

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"Iain Churches" wrote in message

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote in message


It is hard for people here to comprehend
that your own city of Detroit, Arny
has an illiteracy rate according to a United Nations
report of 46%.

I suspect that Scandinavians with adequate backgrounds
in sociology can understand the cause of the problem.


Everyone can understand the cause of problem.
What they cannot understand is why nothing
has been done about it.

A great deal has been "done about it", its just that much of it created
the problem and/or made it worse.

Social engineering is not an exact science yet, I fear.

It seems to be low priority for Detroit.
Meanwhile, the illteracy rate is higher in Detroit
than third-world Angola !!!


We used to see a large number of American tourists here.

Something about the value of the dollar making Europe a cheap thrill.

The USD started off at parity the the Euro, and has
been slipping ever since. It is at Euro 1.38 this morning.
Europe, particularly Scandinavia, is not cheap for Americans.
They are a bit taken aback by the rich culture, especially
those who have the courage to cross into Russia and
spend a day or two in St Peterburg:-)



The people of other nations seem to travel normally, but
now, due to the recession, the weakness of the USD
and fear of terrorist attacks on aircraft American
tourists have all but disappeared.

Maybe they found out that Europe wasn't what it was cracked up to be.

Most Americans seeem to be just doing
"Europe in Ten Days" and don't have a clue
what day it is:-)

It does get a little old watching people quake in their boots and bow to
Islam.

The American tourists are clearly very afraid.
They are a hundred times safer here than at home.
But it is probably flying on an American airline outside
the US that bothers them.


You could always pick them out, he in his Rupert The Bear
trousers, and she with her blue rinse.

Not long ago, a
couple stopped me outside their Helsinki hotel. The lady
looked at me over her pince nez and said, "We want to get
to the Palace" I replied, "The Palace Hotel? It is on the
harbour about 1km from here" She said: "No, the palace
where the royals live" Either she did not know that
Finland is a republic, or she thought she was in
Stockholm, Copenhagen or Oslo:-)

Last time I looked there was no intelligence test required to get a
passport or buy a plane ticket.

But one would think even Americans would know
what country they were in, and take the trouble to
do a little research into its history and culture.


The only words uttered by the gentleman were that "I
spoke English great"

Which no doubt hurt your ears due to the vernacular syntax.

My wife, a Scandinavian, grimaced, and would have corrected
him if I had not nudged her.


I cringe when I hear Americans say: "You did good" when
they mean "You did well" To "do good" means to perform a
virtuous or charitable act. Much comment was made here
about the tribute paid, on the death of Princess Diana
by an American intellectuelle, who said: "She was good
people"

Which no doubt hurts your ears due to the vernacular syntax.

Doesn't English grammar play any part in US education?
How can a single individual be "good people" ???

It's part of the high price of being a stuffed shirt, it appears.

No, correct speech is a part of a good education.
Do you deliberately want to give the impression
you are poorly educated?

Iain