grosun

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by grosun 1y ago
You can drive through London for an hour in mostly 20mph (~30km/h) zones. Thing is, you're unlikely to be averaging anything even like 20. Even when the limit used to be 30 you weren't either. My old car averaged 16mph, &
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by grosun 3y ago
The UK may be the most confusing; fuel is sold in litres, but fuel efficiency is expressed in MPG, and furthermore the gallons aren't the same as US gallons. I guess at least the miles are the same!
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by grosun 7y ago
Untrue re. European electric cars. The Renault Zoe is increasingly common here in the UK, the electric Fiat 500 has been around for a while now, VW have an extensive range, BMW have at least a couple I'm aware of. A significant number
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by grosun 7y ago
... or bandcamp (increasingly so in my experience)
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by grosun 8y ago
Shannon - "Let The Music Play" also used it the year before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-0sUuGufmw & has more of a squelchy what-you'd-think-of-as-303 type bassline sound, but the sound isn't tw
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by grosun 9y ago
I'm in the same situation. How did you go about getting it reduced?
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by grosun 10y ago
Definitely agreed re. the inflexibility of the US system, but "Europe" contains a multiplicity of different parliamentary systems. The UK for instance is sadly almost as stuck in a bipartisan world as the US, which makes change a
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by grosun 10y ago
It's only back-patting if you take it that way. Is he supposed to deny his own personal circumstances, or the notion that they'll have an effect on his outlook? Of course things like that shape the way you're likely to view t
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by grosun 10y ago
& London's Crystal palace pneumatic railway predated that by 6 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace_pneumatic_railw... Not a roaring success though!