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Article #1713Re: Who Killed the Electric Car?
From: John Fields
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 12:49
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 12:49
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On Sat, 24 May 2008 08:43:03 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote: > > >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. --- Surely, you must be joking! I can't imagine why our bottles would be marked as containing US fluid ounces. How clever of the bottlers! --- >> 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. --- Then get off the playground and shut the fuck up. JF
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