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On Fri, 23 May 2008 18:15:20 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

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>John Fields wrote:
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>> So why do you get your knickers in a bunch if our bottles have the
>> quantity of their contents stated in fluid ounces?
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>I didn't.

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Sure you did.

You stated, in your always America-bashing way, that there was no way
to standardize the measure, when what appears on our bottles is
standard US fluid ounces and standard everywhere milliliters. (Which,
BTW, yields a handy conversion, if it's necessary)  That works for us,
which really rankles you since you want to think that we're all
slack-jawed knuckle-draggers and the UK is the elite be-all and
end-all of everything, even though your Lea and Perrins bottle sports
both fluid ounces and milliliters, just like ours, and is owned by an
American company, Heinz.
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>It was YOU who got your knickers in a twist when I commented that US liquid
>measure is all at sea.

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Disagreeing with you is hardly getting my knickers in a twist, and if
it's a sea of our own, as you imply, why should that concern you?

The fact is, you ingrate, that you and your ilk are so into England
becoming the Washington, D.C. of the United States of Europe and don't
want to have to admit that the US is the model which you're emulating
that you'll go to great lengths to try to discredit us, even though we
had the idea first.

After India, of course.

But what did that democracy mean to you as a system of government? 

Nothing.

All you were interested in was lining your coffers with ill-gotten
goods.

The same goes for the middle east, where you chopped up territories
according to the whims of politicians and other idiots who thought
they knew what might be good borders and created enemies where none
had existed before.

Truth be told, IMO, you people are the reason for the unrest in the
middle east and why the tensions in the world are now where they are.

JF