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How about if you're going for 3 months
Whaley Bridge - Toddbrook Reservoir Damage
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How is that, @Knees up? What's changed?
KneesUp
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By "at the moment" I meant "until and unless our political masters choose to f it up for us" - you've never needed a passport to travel from one EU country to another, you just need to prove your identity and status as an EU national. In practice, your passport is by far the easiest way to do that, but it doesn't *have* to be a passport. As far as I understand, anyway. Like I say, I wouldn't fancy trying it.
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
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You do need your passport as we did not join the Schengen area of the EU. I found this out when my daughters passport had expired just before we were due to go to France last year.
KneesUp
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Thank you - I've learned a thing today.
(I *think* you could use your ID card, until they were scrapped - maybe that's where I got the idea from? - https://www.gov.uk/identitycards)
KneesUp
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Ah, it'll be fine now. He's pointing at stuff in the distance.
View: https://twitter.com/DNicoros/status/1158347152441171970?s=20
Why do politicians do that? (Also, brown shoes and black belt - tsk!)
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Mr Celine
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Americans don't use imperial. How many tons does a Saturn V rocket weigh, how many gallons of fuel were needed to reach orbit and how many pints of water did the astronauts drink?
@KneesUp Silly it's clear why he's pointing at the promised land it's via the river we will be sold down.
KneesUp
Guru
That would explain why all politicians do it. Now we just need to work out why they also like being shown in hard hats.
Drago
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The entire orbital mechanics for the Apollo programme were done in miles, miles an hour, and lbs (plus, of course, all the ephemeral data). I had to study it as part of the coursework for my Masters. Now, last time I checked miles, miles per hour and lbs weren't metric units of measure.
Oh, and the amount of water consumed was measured in lbs too, not volume. Fuel was also accounted for in lbs, as was oxidiser. The airless environment of space doesn't care what your volume is, only what your mass is.
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Tanis8472
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https://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html
As someone whose village school went metric in the 1960s (or cgs at any rate), and whose subsequent academic career dealt exclusively in metric units, I regard imperial enthusiasts as either a bunch of (very) old fogies or engineers to be pitied for being locked into their customers' antique expectations.
[edit] https://www.zmescience.com/other/map-of-countries-officially-not-using-the-metric-system/
As someone whose village school went metric in the 1960s (or cgs at any rate), and whose subsequent academic career dealt exclusively in metric units, I regard imperial enthusiasts as either a bunch of (very) old fogies or engineers to be pitied for being locked into their customers' antique expectations.
[edit] https://www.zmescience.com/other/map-of-countries-officially-not-using-the-metric-system/
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Drago
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I'm not an enthusiast - I'm equally adept in either. I prefer imperial, but can move smoothly and without paused between different standards.
In these modern, international times, it is as poor form to be adept in the use of only a single standard as it is to be able to speak only a single language. I would no sooner want the entire planet to go Metric (or indeed imperial) to the exclusion of all other standards than I would for them to speak a single language to the exclusion of all others.
Knowledge is power. Ignorance is simply, well, ignorance.
In these modern, international times, it is as poor form to be adept in the use of only a single standard as it is to be able to speak only a single language. I would no sooner want the entire planet to go Metric (or indeed imperial) to the exclusion of all other standards than I would for them to speak a single language to the exclusion of all others.
Knowledge is power. Ignorance is simply, well, ignorance.
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AuroraSaab
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Pretty sure he's saying, "You see that plant over there? I've got one of them on the allotment". God bless, Dianne, though. You gotta love an optimist.
