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Article #1718Re: Who Killed the Electric Car?
From: John Fields
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 20:58
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 20:58
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On Sat, 24 May 2008 13:55:39 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote: > > >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 ? --- I see you snipped the sarcasm... What's the matter, donkey-boy, didn't you get it? JF
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