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date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:18:08 +0100,    group: uk.transport        back       
Re: Slightly OT - Petrol Panic   
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:27:07 +0100, "Michael C" 
wrote:

>> I know I'm jumping into someone else's argument here; but I don't see that 
>> it any of your flaming business who fills up with fuel, when they do it, 
>> or what their reason is.
>> There are far too many busy bodies around here telling other people how to 
>> run their lives. If I want fuel and fuel is on sale, I'll decide when to 
>> buy it. You can fuck right off with your reasons why I mustn't buy it! :-(

>Wow, great response.  It is perfectly my business if your retarded actions 
>make things worse for me and everyone else. 

How could they possibly make things worse for *you*?  You have
explained to us at length why it would be no hardship whatsoever for
*you* to live without fuel.

-- 
Cynic
date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:06:21 +0100   author:   Cynic

Re: CO2 and GW is good for the planet.   
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:13:26 +0100 someone who may be David Hansen
 wrote this:-

>[2] In ye olden days the voltage in the UK was to be 240V +/-6%.
>There was an agreement in 1998 to standardise voltages at 230V -6%
>+10%, from 1/1/95, throughout Europe. [snip]
>
>The precise dates are according to John Whitfield, assuming I have
>copied them correctly.

And I have failed to do that:-) 1998 should be 1988. All the other
dates are correct.

That will teach me to rush.



-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54
date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:18:08 +0100   author:   David Hansen

Re: CO2 and GW is good for the planet.   
David Hansen wrote:

> That will teach me to rush.

But are you capable of learning?
date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:21:01 +0100   author:   Brimstone

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