"Bank to bank transfers are also widely available and free of charge." While I completely agree with moving away from cheques to electronic payment, bank transfers are not free to all UK account holders - particularly some business accounts - this is why an IT support company I sometimes do work for pays me by cheque, as the fee to transfer by BACS from his account makes it less cost effective.

They are trying to encourage you to pay online - I did that this year when I renewed my car's tax disk.

If looks like item descriptions now load in an iframe from ebaydesc.com, so this may break in browsers with any blocking of iframes or content from external domains. However, as I haven't used eBay in a while, I can't be sure if this is new or something they've done for a while in the old design too...

Or 1 gal = 160 fl. oz. in UK measures ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_weights_and_measures#British_.28Imperial.29_measures ). Thus part of the issue of imperial measures.

Nope, 1pt, 2pts, 4pts (and sometimes 6pts) in full fat, semi-skimmed and skimmed (but in more than one brand, thus filling an aisle). However all of them have the pint and litre figures printed in the side or front. but in the same section there is the cream in 300 or 500ml pots (and various other fresh dairy or related liquids such as goats milk).

UHT milk is usually in a different aisle and are in 1 litre cartons.

So we are still rather confused in the UK (and I still have to try to remember the F to C conversion ratio when people of my parent's generation are talking about temperatures).

In the UK they are different with the same names:

1 gallon = 4 quarts (8 pints/160 fl. oz.)
1 quart = 2 pints (40 fl. oz.)
1 pint = 2 cups (20 fl. oz.)
1 cup = 10 fl. oz.

See http://www.onlineconversion.com/article_UK_units.htm

and from http://www.metric-conversion-tables.com/imperialunitsmeasurement.htm

1 U.S. fluid ounce = 1.041 British fluid ounces
1 British fluid ounce = 0.961 U.S. fluid ounce
1 U.S. gallon = 0.833 British Imperial gallon
1 British Imperial gallon = 1.201 U.S. gallons

So the problem is that your (US) pint isn't my (UK) pint (and worse with gallons) - this is why SI units make more sense - and I wish we were using them more in the UK than we do currently on a day to day basis...

Where's my mod points when I need them? LOL...

Damn I wish I had mod points...

If this made you scratch your head:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Field

Simple - dampen the shaft of the arrow so it doesn't catch fire, and replace the feathers with a mini-rocket-come-tazer for both longer range, and an anti-personnel element... ;-)

I didn't know you worked for Microsoft? :-p

Only 1 meter thick?
From http://history.howstuffworks.com/middle-ages/castle2.htm
"The outer curtain wall was high, thick and made of stone or brick. Walls could range from 6 to 10 meters high and 1.5 to 8 meters thick."

So that worked well then...

I won't ask why you are sticking pigs up chimneys... :-p

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