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Of course I knew what the answer would be. As Zlatan says, that car is a dinosaur. And far from seeing Elon Musk as a man of the future, I also see him as a dinosaur with his obsession with speed for e-cars. Having been the first with a lithium batteried e-car, it was that silly obsession...

Who cares? In a world where national speed limits are round about 60 mph, hardly any roads are unlimited and traffic congestion is common, we have no bother getting the claimed ranges from our e-cars. .

Insects including flies exist down to below what we can see with the naked eye, so that is what they eat. To give some idea, a square metre of woodland soil recently minutely examined revealed, apart from major creatures like worms, the following: Over 1600 larvae of microflies. Over 15,000...

It's not surprising they don't have time for a chat with a human, when you see them they have sex on their mind. These are Tegenaria species, mainly Tegenaria domestica, and they are very clever at finding nooks and crannies in homes where they hide inside funnel webs most of the year, feeding...

All this fuss! I never have the slightest difficulty, the types of containers illustrated and the carriage charges give away how much you'll get. My favourite unit "Enough" is an SI measure, Sufficiently Intelligent. It's so smart it deals with weight, volume, linear measure, strength and...

You're making it too complicated. When I want similar, the quantity I look for is enough, my favourite unit of measurement. Nobody packages in exactly the quantity you need, so enough is all you need look for. For posh gits the word is sufficient rather than enough. .

But it doesn't matter. Why fret about using miles when we don't all drive of the same side of the road. I find it more than amusing that you drive on the left in RH drive cars at kilometres an hour burning litres of fuel. That makes Eire an outlier of mainland Europe, the UK and the USA! .

Danidl is in a foreign country which has all metric measure, Southern Ireland. Hence his using all metric, kilometres matching his road signs. .

On our cars!! How many times must I say "in everyday common use". .

Nothing to do with skill, everything to do with units that are far too small, many of them to a single slice. .

Once again demonstrating the superior flexibility of Imperial, readily adjusting to our needs. Now you are being silly. We buy in pounds, exactly the same pounds that we had back in 1970 with a different divisor. We can count as well as anyone, but we don't want to spend every minute of our...

At last a sign that you are getting it. Exactly, it's simplicity for real people, instead of the complexity of over large numbers. .

There you go again, the obsession with maths. The great majority of people don't use or want to use maths in their day to day lives, they prefer to keep life simple with very small numbers and preferably single numbers. You use whatever you like. Just leave other people alone and stop trying...

Just like Oyster, you just aren't getting it, it's not about mathematics, its about human scale and convenience. The imperial measures fit our lives as we live them, like the useful ounce in foodstuffs and cooking, not the silly gram which is far too small so needs 28 (28.3) as you said. A...

Stunt it may be, but there are advantages to using the old Imperial measures. The biggest one is that the public like them and it's why they won't quietly go away. And as Zlatan and I keep pointing out, single numbers are preferable where possible. And the systems developed to meet human...

But why the hell should we when we have a perfectly good system that doesn't need fixing? Stuff pleasing a minority of obsessive control freaks who want conformity above everything. .

It's always sensible since as Zlatan and I are highlighting, the numbers are kept small by the traditional system. Unlike the idiocy of measuring in hundreds of units which has no perceptive meaning. Only because its no longer required, the strength of the imperial system illustrated by it...

No it isn't. Our traditional imperial units evolved entirely out of human needs. The arbitrary metric system was created entirely for mathematical convenience with total disregard for human needs. And it shows all the time, as you illustrate with your compatibility suggestions showing how out...

Of course, you are in the UK, not the USA. Metric is very silly in day to day terms, as you clearly shown by lapsing into hundreds with your two examples. The arbitrary nature of the metre means none of the measures are practical in day to day life. A litre is to big for beer, too small for...

Who cares, I said day to day human scale. We don't weigh water when preparing a recipe! However, it's an easy one to answer, 1.25** lbs since a gallon weighs 10 lbs near enough. **Precise weight 1.2528 lbs. .