Front Bumper Damage

Do main dealers ever do anything except fit new replacement parts?

Rats the cosmetic repair insurance will only cover scratches up to 30cm long. So looks like I will have to put my hand in my pocket for this repair, at least I can shop around.

S*it happens A score is fixed by feeding plastic rod into it with a heat gun to 'fill' the crack, then sanding smooth and repainting.

I left school with science in centigrade, but the weather forecast in Fahrenheit. It took concentration for me to work out whether some water was warmer or colder than the air around it ;)

I have some learned numbers.

I recall the convenient time when a Euro was 5/8 of a pound, because I could do the 5/8 mile to km.

And my son's satnav annoys me by saying "In 1000ft" which might mean something to an American, but I have to convert.

(Dicky, I fear your bumper is scrap.)

Andy

Miles to km is easy, just enter the (decimal) miles on your calculator in hexadecimal mode then convert to decimal or vice-versa. 0x40 = 64,

What could possibly go wrong?

Your Air Canada plane will run out of fuel.

I one were to ask about 12 inches could the answer be unexpected? :-)

My neighbour was two and a half at the start of the Covid pandemic. His mother said, 'Remember - keep away from Scott - two metres - pandemic'. He replied, 'Two metres - that's six feet'.

Do you remember the one about converting to decimal coinage using a watch? 1 hour corresponds to one shilling. 1 minute corresponds to 5 new pence. 2 shillings = 2 hours = 10 new pence. 15 new pence = 3 pm = 3 shillings. Sums over 10 shillings needed an adjustment.

Kelvin?

I remember the 1/2 new pence disappeared quickly and things that previously cost 6d suddenly inflated to 3 NP and in no time became 5 NP likewise things that cost 2/6d in no time became 25 NP. Now I cannot say whether that was due to natural inflation but my gut feeling was that many retailers took the opportunity to inflate their prices on the back of decimalisation.

Richard

Or crash a probe on the surface of Mars.

When, finally, 2p and 1p are dropped, we'll again have 20 'shillings' in a pound.

When I first went to CERN (1967), the Swiss had already phased out the one and two centimes copper coins. Smallest was, and remains AFAIK, the five centimes.

In message <uh5gbd$32bvk$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, Tricky Dicky snipped-for-privacy@sky.com writes

I know one place where it deflated to 2NP. There may be others.

A toll bridge had the tolls set at 6d by act of Parliament, and had to get another act to change them, in the mean time the 2.5NP had to drop to 2NP. I think it is now 5NP.

Adrian

Try it on 19 miles. Or 119.

You did make me stop and think why I don't do that!

Andy.

The one that goe me was that a pint of milk (568ml) was metricated to

But a 2lb loaf of bread (907g) became 800g. It should have been a kilo.

Andy

Hardly ever. My degree is Biology.

Andy

Bread sizes was a WW2 thing, the standard size was re-defined as 14oz instead of 1lb, which after metrification became 400g rounded up from