OT: "leave more time for the bike" advertisements

Art Deco (art_deco@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I have nothing against miles. But I don't feel the need to change the speedo that the vehicles have had since new for no real benefit.

Perhaps, although I'm sure you have a citation handy? Anyway - Was it being referred to in a "road sign" context? No.

Conor ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I'm fairly sure that these aren't HGVs. GVs, yes, but definitely not very H.

And a few of those, and the road gets a Gatso.

Also (local experience) if some bloke chucks himself in front of several vehicles until one kills him that counts too.

Makes it a dangerous road so it gets a 30mph limit (from NSL) and a camera...

Is that because the UK is incapable of manufacturing something so sophisticated?

Where? The only one I've seen is the M20 slip road for the Channel Tunnel.

So what goes on the MOT - the mileage (or should that be kilometrage) in kms?

I'm sure I could find one if I looked.

What other use is it?

What does that sound like?

It'd confuse everybody.

A 'different' thing.

Paris never successfully invaded.

Take one kilometre and multiply it by 5/8. You'll get 25/64 mile.

When there was a Kienzle factory here they where still in Km/H. Tachos aren't very sophisticated.

Kienzle? A good English name, that!

Art Deco (art_deco@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Yup.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Art Deco saying something like:

Point me to the rule about overtaking on the left.

Do you mean the rule about NOT overtaking on the left, except in slowly moving traffic?

Nah...it's just that lorry drivers have a superior intellect so can easily convert KPH to MPH on the fly.

:-p

Forgotten what motorway it was on but it was where there were two exit sliproads very close together.

Please don't tell me that you don't know mathematics is a language? In fact it is classed as a universal language.

Not if the unit used was indicated.

Art Deco (art_deco@127.0.0.1) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Right. So it's a good thing. The same-old-same-old does get very boring.

I think you'll find that this country has been succesfully invaded by residents of what is now France far more recently than by residents of what is now Italy.

So what does it sound like?

So if every motorway used a different unit, there'd be no confusion as long as the unit was indicated?

Lorry drivers are thick by definition. Why else would they drive lorries?

Yes, that one.