RE: Well and truly [OT] - Anyone got a Peugeot 307?

["Ho Yin" <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes!!!!

Like with TomTom.

I like it when they display the overal distance to cover in miles.

But then when I come to a junction I don't want to be told how far away it
is in yards!! I want it in metres!

But that is probably just me.

Ho yin

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Kim Wall
Sent: 05 January 2006 04:50
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Well and truly [OT] - Anyone got a Peugeot 307?


Ian Lowe wrote:

> What's the point of working out miles per gallon when you buy the
stuff in
> litres?

Absolutely, the canonical unit of fuel consumption is of course the
square metre.  :)


> Ps> I, of course, am no better, struggling as I do to make sense of
pounds
> and ounces - how do you get a handle on something that's a multiple of
> twelve or fourteen? It just seems so weird...

Ah, the joys of being a modern brit.  We think in metric, unless it's
speeds or long distances, beer, or (sometimes) the height and weight of
people.  Pounds are something you spend, feet are something that smell
and stones are very small rocks.  We're a whole generation of Mars
Climate Orbiter problems waiting to happen.

I'm still waiting for Garmin et al to discover the children of the 80s
and equip their GPS firmwares with the miles-and-metres system of
measurement.


Kim.







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