War, what war?
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San Francisco, CA
Think most E5 is 97ron, only the super duper stuff is 99.
At the summit of the picturesque fens
With prices like that in the US, they need to change their pricing to litres (liters) like we did many years ago, in an attempt to make it look cheaper!
It's the only reason I can think of for us changing fuel pricing/ measures from imperial to metric. We have GOT to be the only Country on the planet that buys our fuel in metric measures, then convert it to mpg for consumption. Mental.
It's the only reason I can think of for us changing fuel pricing/ measures from imperial to metric. We have GOT to be the only Country on the planet that buys our fuel in metric measures, then convert it to mpg for consumption. Mental.
North West Surrey
According to the American Automobile Association, today's average of high octane petrol is US$4.969 per US gallon. But San Francisco being a high cost of living area, everything is more expensive including petrol. Then you cherry-pick --like I did-- notoriously expensive stations, you get outliers. Still, US$4.969 per US gallon is about US$1.00 higher than at the beginning of the Orange Paedo's excursion. Multiply that by the millions of miles the US economy requires to function, it's a massive strain on loads of folk. But then, MAGA isn't known as the cult of cruelty for nothing. They happily endure shite up to their chins for as long as their neighbour has shite up to his ears.
Best put your affairs in order, someone will be there to collect you tomorrowSo how long do I have?
Yes we are completely nuts. We must be the world's best at 'mental maths'.I think we are probably the only nation on Earth that is happy with both imperial and metric systems, then swap between the two in the same breath.
Oh and don't get me started on the l/100km metric for efficiency
We buy milk in pints yet every other liquid is bought is litres or millilitres (or centilitres).
We go to the pub and buy beer by the pint. Yet we buy wine (and everything else) in the same pub by the centilitre, or millilitre. And if we buy beer from anywhere but a pub it is measured in millilitres (and all is brewed in the UK).
We all know that a pint is 568ml; because we need to. We all know that a gallon is 4.54 litres; because we need to. We all know that 100kph is 62 mph; because we need to.
We drive in miles per hour. All our speedometers are in mph. Our road signs are in miles and yards, yet everything else is in metric. We measure stuff in mm, cm or metres, yet we measure road stuff in yards and miles.
I find myself (all the time) looking at a petrol pump and dividing the measures by 4.54 in my head (which is tricky). Then working out in my head how many miles I will get for the litres of fuel (which is trickier). It's completely nuts.
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We get both, buy a large container and it will either be 2 litres or 2.272 litres (4 pints) dependent on retailer and the same with smaller versions, Tesco only sell pints in their branded milk, but they also sell Arla, which is metric. It is done out of not upsetting the die hard nationalists who want thinks to be like they were in the seventies (lower standing of living, higher prices, more strikes, lower mortality, you know the good old days seen through rose tinted glasses)
As an engineer, I much prefer the metric system based on the seven SI units and their derivatives, but have been indoctrinated into imperial so I weigh 9 stone and 9 pounds, and am 1.69 metres tall.
Beer in pints and distances in miles don't need changing because it's an arbitrary unit. In the same way I buy half a dozen bananas rather than a pound or 500g of the things. I consume one, handled mug of beer at a time and Birmingham is a couple of hours away. It doesn't matter if it's 100 miles, 160km or 500 elongated cubits, it's up the M5 and on the right after a dozen and a half junctions. And I'll use £35 of fuel to get there.
However, if I worked for Highways, I would refer to the various parts of the M5 by the km markers down the edge.
Horses for courses (furlongs.)
(FWIW, I ought to be the metric generation but I use whichever is the most useful. Fine measurements in mm, apart from when I then machine something in my 1947 lathe when it's 40thou to the mm. I'm 11 stone but have no idea what that is in lb or kg because there's too many to juggle for comparative purposes. 5'5 vs 5'9 I can visualise but 1.65m vs 1.75m I have to think about. And, on their own, they mean nothing to me! 20C fine. 70 farenheit? No idea.)
However, if I worked for Highways, I would refer to the various parts of the M5 by the km markers down the edge.
Horses for courses (furlongs.)
(FWIW, I ought to be the metric generation but I use whichever is the most useful. Fine measurements in mm, apart from when I then machine something in my 1947 lathe when it's 40thou to the mm. I'm 11 stone but have no idea what that is in lb or kg because there's too many to juggle for comparative purposes. 5'5 vs 5'9 I can visualise but 1.65m vs 1.75m I have to think about. And, on their own, they mean nothing to me! 20C fine. 70 farenheit? No idea.)
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I buy milk in 2.27 litre bottles and my speedo is in kph.
A furlong is also an imperial measurement. Eight to a mile.
I was furlonged during covid. The Gov paid my wages (but not in pounds, shillings and D).
I wish the government had paid me in LSD. I could have sold it.
The only thing that should be inches is paper and wheel sizes 
I cannot estimate in yards or miles, only in metres and km. Speed in miles means nothing to me, so my cars are all in km (except for those you cannot change). Never undertand a tape measure but I only buy metric ones but how can anyone accurately measure with a ruier or tape measure that has massive gaps between the numbers (unlike mm).
I cannot estimate in yards or miles, only in metres and km. Speed in miles means nothing to me, so my cars are all in km (except for those you cannot change). Never undertand a tape measure but I only buy metric ones but how can anyone accurately measure with a ruier or tape measure that has massive gaps between the numbers (unlike mm).
