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EU needs a military... And quickly. The next centuries allegencies are forming..without a military how does EU hope to compete. Idealism to the last... Unless Micron gets his way??? This Aukus was always on cards. Diesel electric subs from France? Would be like buying coal driven warships in...

Not just playing Devil's advocate here flecc. Sound wave has a point... Majority of our power does still come from dead animal fuels... But whilst that is the case makes even more of a mockery of high performance electric cars. Even as a petrol head myself do think ecars max current draw should...

But that's exactly same with any car. My Jag is quoted as top speed 134mph... Urban economy 58 mpg... At 134 mph it would be doing 5 or 6 mpg. (guess, going on mpg on track days with other cars) Its also quoted as 0 to 60 in 7 seconds. (which is BS, it won't) but try a few times and no chance of...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58614229 Think OG is running Diplomacy between France and UK at moment. France taking their bat and ball home, well their diplomats in Australia and US... Think the president with small man syndrome is leaving the UK ones in place.. 5th Columnists.. Will...

Too right Flecc. Certain electric cars, amongst them this thing mentioned, are as archaic in their green credentials as any muscle car/ sports car. Utterly ridiculous. Its another area where folk have been conned. An electric car can dump nearly all its stored energy in moments. Resulting in...

Buy a gallon, decant to units you like and sell what you don't want. Do you know eye drops are administered in drops.. I was given 84.... Apparently there are 20 drops per ml..???!!!

USA an outlier with a population of 330 million. That's ridiculous.. And we can't even standardise spelling within a common language. It's "outlier". We don't need to all have same language, units and such. I just don't see your reasoning. If you want to use SI... Feel free. If you want to...

Yep, I realised mid post... Makes his comment rather irrelevant. Deleted mine.

Pint or half? I, m not saying anybody should use imperial, just let them if they want and understand why. They do have a place in UK..

Many years ago we were having this very discussion and about dropping imperial from curriculum. Most (all the mathematicians) were strongly in favour of following Government advice of time and dropping them completely. A few of us wanted to just cover them, but not for calculations. At end of...

Come on Oyster. What are your scales set to.? How do you measure economy of your car?

I like the irony in your post. It does simplify things... The Beaufort scale was an attempt to quantify the winds effects and not simply it's speed..as anyone who knows much at all about sailing will tell you winds of equal velocity (actually speed) can contain varying amounts of power.. (air...

It's nothing to do with changing back, it's accepting the fact that for everyday usage for vast majority of society our antiquated units are better. They are antiquated for a reason. Or perhaps you, d like entire sailing world to stop using knots... Windfoce system (F5 etc) to be outlawed...

Perhaps what UK should have done over past 50 years or so was decimalise its own units instead of relying on the ones Napolean foisted on the French.. (well sort of) We kept the £ and split it into minor units with the required factor of 10..(ok 100 but that's a product of 10) And what every...

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Oh yes, using French for half clarifies it perfectly. Next week in Rotherham I, ll pop into local and ask for a demi... Wonder what I, ll get.?? And, whilst I lived in France folk would often ask for a "demi" of beer... Was about a wine glass of beer in a small glass... No idea of the amount in...

But you, ve hit the nail on the head... Its a pint. One.. (well about but not really) Try ordering 500ml (or is it cc) when you, ve had 5 pints. "A pint please love". Or "Could I have 500 mili litres of beer please" ???? It won't catch on. I promise.

Exactly..Great post. Buying 63 litres of fuel, being 185 cm tall is simply not human developed organic units. Its units forced upon us by engineers to help calculations. Yes, obviously easier to calculate with but generally in 99% of cases we do not calculate anything with them. We pass them on...

I lived in a pub all my teenage years and until 28 or so... We served pints... And halves... Or shots. The sizes of which normally correspond to having between 1 and 9 of them in a night... What the value actually is is irrelevant to drinker,but in an evening he or she will drink perhaps 4 or 5...

Again, you are absolutely right flecc.. SI system grew from engineers and mathematicians who demand order and repetitivity in units... ie a constance as amounts increase or decrease. That's not the case for everyday human activity. We prefer organic "units" we can understand and generally (but...