Hi :) Yes, or spend it shouting at the stupid potholes that i hadn't noticed and that had given me a flat (or whatever problem i ran into). At least with a push-bike it's reasonably easy to suddenly go off road and push the bike and generally make the most of it Regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: anne-ology <lagin...@gmail.com> To: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org> Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 15:21 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to other software/formats? so some days you spend more time viewing the scenery, huh? ;-) On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: Hi :) >I think our cars show both too. I think road signs only show miles. Errr, i >am a cyclist so any distance away just seems forever away until i reach it. >60 miles might take just a few hours one day but then an 8mile might be >unfeasible another. Bit of an exaggeration of course. > >Regards from >Tom :) > > > > >From: James Knott <james.kn...@rogers.com> >To: LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org> >Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 19:08 > >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to >other software/formats? > > > >Ruth Ann wrote: >> Metric just never caught on here in the USA. And I noticed that as the >> signs were replaced, the news ones just gave the distance in miles again. >> > >You can thank Reagan for that one. Peanut Carter had implemented a plan >to convert, but Reagan killed it. This was the same period as when >Canada switched. >> Oh, and our cars still do show the speed in both miles per hour and >> kilometers per hour - but I think that is probably just in case we >> happen to visit Canada (who has gone metric, I think) :-) > >Both Canada and Mexico along with every other country an American can >drive to, uses Km. The U.S. is stuck with 2 third world countries as >the last holdouts. How does it feel to have the U.S. on par with >Liberia and Myanmar (Burma). > >Regardless, thanks to world trade, more and more U.S. companies are >having to work with the metric system, if they want to sell elsewhere. > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
