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That may not work for very much longer, those machines are getting damned clever, and the day is surely not that far away when the computer refuses to take the blame?Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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Well, HAL certainly tried to take matters into his own hands. It looks as if Asimov might be proved wrong.Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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The other day I caught my new headphones, in cahoots with my iPhone, trying to book my car into the local station carpark.Originally posted by oddoneout View PostComment
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That could form the basis for episode 1 of a rebooted 'Twilight Zone'.Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostComment
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You're too far away for it to be a Brief Encounter, so just as well you found out in time...Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostComment
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Ped-antry gone mad!Originally posted by Bryn View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Maybe this, about their curious measure of a gallon (so 'gas' price per gallon isn't quite as low as it might appear to us in the UK, as they're getting less) should be on the Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge thread: it's quite gall-ing!Originally posted by Bryn View Post
US gallons are different to the imperial gallon.
In the Americas, a gallon is equivalent to 128 fluid ounces or 3.785 liters (American spelling).
But in the UK, it's 160 fluid ounces or 4.546 litres (British spelling).
Or should that be 'different from'?
I copied the wording from here:
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AFAIK the root of this difference lies in the fact that where we have 20 fluid ounces to the pint they have 16, presumably on some sort of analogy with 16 ounces to the pound. We start from a UK gallon of water weighing 10lb, a pint therefore 160/8 = 20oz. 1/20pt therefore weighs 1oz and therefore that volume gets called a fluid ounce. Or used to anyway.Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostI keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!Comment
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I never knew that (the fluid and imperial ounce correlation), thinking that only the metric system had a straightforward relationship between weight and volume of water.Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View PostComment
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Slightly off to be picky about a particularly solemn occasion, but the BBC's: "Beirut blast: Victims remembered in one month anniversary vigil". I see the OED gives five such 'extended use' examples, all American, the first in 1871.Though I don't suppose the BBC's is the first British example.
For me it might equally well be under the words that set my teeth on edge, not least because, in extreme old age, time is already going so fast that this occurrence might have happened a year ago
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It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Indeed, "menstruversary" seems yet to have been added to the language but no doubt some lunatic will eventually get around to this...Originally posted by french frank View PostSlightly off to be picky about a particularly solemn occasion, but the BBC's: "Beirut blast: Victims remembered in one month anniversary vigil". I see the OED gives five such 'extended use' examples, all American, the first in 1871.Though I don't suppose the BBC's is the first British example.
For me it might equally well be under the words that set my teeth on edge, not least because, in extreme old age, time is already going so fast that this occurrence might have happened a year ago.Comment
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