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neckarb said:
I'm English. We use the metric system for some things. Not everything.
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I was talking about gallons only.
US gallon ~ 4.05L
Imperial gallon ~ 4.55L

So, for a car .. 30mpg US ~ 34mpg UK

Mostly, when Clarkson talks about fuel economy of lots of cars (ok, usually James May talks about the Economy, but, Clarkson is funnier since he makes a much bigger ass of himself), the #'s seem really high to those of us across the pond. But then when taking into account the US gallon, the #'s make sense.

Lemme guess, you are Gaelic or Pictish, and not Bython at all?
In any case, "British" these days does not refer only to Bython's in the historic tense. Usually it refers to "Britons, or Brits, citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants."
 
BurnItDwn said:
I was talking about gallons only.
US gallon ~ 4.05L
Imperial gallon ~ 4.55L

So, for a car .. 30mpg US ~ 34mpg UK

Mostly, when Clarkson talks about fuel economy of lots of cars (ok, usually James May talks about the Economy, but, Clarkson is funnier since he makes a much bigger ass of himself), the #'s seem really high to those of us across the pond. But then when taking into account the US gallon, the #'s make sense.

Lemme guess, you are Gaelic or Pictish, and not Bython at all?
In any case, "British" these days does not refer only to Bython's in the historic tense. Usually it refers to "Britons, or Brits, citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants."
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No I appreciate that, but american's have a tendency to call Irish people Irish, Scottish people Scottish and English people brits... it's bizzare.

I agree about the differences of gallons though it's strange. Why do we do it?
 
"ergo"
Nobody used this word until it was used in The Matrix.
Now idiots on forums and the like use it to sound edumacated.
 
neckarb said:
No I appreciate that, but american's have a tendency to call Irish people Irish, Scottish people Scottish and English people brits... it's bizzare.

I agree about the differences of gallons though it's strange. Why do we do it?
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In the olden times a gallon was different for what was being measured.... "Gallon" of beer/ale was different quantity than gallon of water... etc ...

USA is essentially using the old "wine gallon" to mean 1 gallon.
Looks like Imperial Gallon is defined as volume to hold 10 pounds of water.

That said, in the USA we use the metric system for science/medical fields, and tend to leave the obselete system in place for the laymen. Hopefully as previous generations fade off into obscurity, and new generations are more and more used to and familiar with the metric system, we will be rid of the old system eventually!
 
Homerboy said:
"ergo"
Nobody used this word until it was used in The Matrix.
Now idiots on forums and the like use it to sound edumacated.
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This is probably true. Also because of The Matrix, we now have fools talking about "causation" 🙄 and some other fancy word I can't recall ATM.

It's no reason to hate the word though.
 
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