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Article #1709Re: Who Killed the Electric Car?
From: Eeyore
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 07:43
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 07:43
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John Fields wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > >John Fields wrote: > > > >> So why do you get your knickers in a bunch if our bottles have the > >> quantity of their contents stated in fluid ounces? > > > >I didn't. > > --- > Sure you did. > > You stated, in your always America-bashing way, that there was no way > to standardize the measure, I said there are 3 standards. > 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, No, it's marked in ml and BRITISH fl oz over here. Yours is marked in US fl oz and ml. > and is owned by an > American company, Heinz. So what ? > >It was YOU who got your knickers in a twist when I commented that US liquid > >measure is all at sea. > > --- > 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? I'm not interested in playing your silly game any more. Graham
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