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Article #1714Re: Who Killed the Electric Car?
From: Eeyore
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 12:55
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 12:55
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John Fields wrote: > Eeyore 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! No. Those are facts. Are you seriously not capable of seeing / understanding that for yourself ? Graham
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