v for frequency?

I can't understand yanks not using stones. They put their weight in just pounds, which means you get a ridiculously high number which is meaningless, then try to divide it by 14 in your head! Do they also measure their car speed in inches per hour?

Only my English grandmother said "presently" for in a while. Every other English person uses it to mean right now.

Only if you're really posh, otherwise you'd say shortly. Which could mean you're going to shrink in the rain.

This person would not say "I am presently smoking":

No they don't.

" I will be there presently". Because of the furrier tense, 'presently' can only refer to the future (the immediate future), ie 'very soon', 'in a moment', 'in a while' etc.

"I am there presently". Because of the present tense, 'presently' can only mean 'now', 'at the moment' etc.

There is no ambiguity.

I've seen roadworks signs in Massachusetts which say something like "Roadworks in 5280 feet" (that's 1 mile to everyone else!). That was in the late 1990s.

All Americans shoot, so surely yards would work well in traffic?

Do you check your checks? So much easier to call them cheques.

Not that anyone uses them in the 21st century. I don't even use cash. Which was handy, I went to park at a beach to go scuba diving and a man approached me asking for £2 to park. I offered him a credit card, I offered him my phone, but he wanted cash. I ended up getting let in for free. I later heard him arguing with another driver who only had a £10 note. The stupid car park operator was putting the coins straight into a jar through a slot and couldn't give him £8 change. I walked over and suggested he keep the next four fees in his hand and give them to the first driver. He looked at me as though I was Einstein.

Why not dd/mm/yyyy? Start with the smallest, move to the largest. You're ruining the world when a website asks for a date and doesn't specify if it's English or American format.

What flavours?

I don't even use cash.

The safety standards for electrical devices are amusing. In the US, there's less chance of electrocution but more chance of fire, since you use pansy amounts of voltage and mega thick cables for the doubled current.

Really stupid, since if someone makes a device which will run on both voltages, they have to have thick enough cables/circuit board tracks and also components to handle the higher voltage.

Just stick with 240 will you? You've already got it in your homes, you don't have to split it in half. Change all your sockets to one standard 13A 240V outlet. 3.2kW anywhere.

The French do as they please. Although it's not usually with safety. My Renault tries to sell itself by getting 5 stars in all the safety tests, mainly because it doesn't start.

Ausgezeichnet, die Einmarsch ist abgeschlossen. Ich werde den Führer informieren.

Americans can make stuff? It's all made in China.

Surely the problem in each direction is equal? Shooting themselves in the metre as usual.

Why get dressed if it's your own workshop?

Ah, another fool who doesn't grasp percentages.

I prefer a Tacluchnatagamuntoron

The time can be Zulu, Zulu with an offset, or local. Zulu with an offset is the most useful.

That's E=hf in Scots universities.

Too similar with bad handwriting.

It is here. But I think it's a capital I.

Alledgedly we break a bone in our little toe 7 times a year. True enough I have stubbed it about that many times and it f****ng hurts.

You have an absurdly low pain threshold. A central heating radiator is traditionally 70C, and the guide is "you should be able to touch it for 3-5 seconds before it's sore".

That's stupid, so if Harry has loads of XL left, and is running out of L, what does he do?

alan_m snipped-for-privacy@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote

I only use cash at garage/yard/boot sales.

While I can pay to any mobile number, it isnt worth farting around convincing the seller that its as good as cash when there is a queue of those waiting to pay for what they want.

Returns the unsold merchandise for credit. Think about it. At least back then they weren't 3D printing shirts on demand. The entire lot of the particular shirt was a normal distribution of sizes. There were no more Ls. Maybe Tim the Tailor in Fat City could make use of the XLs.