To use one of Tony Bennett's favourite tactics:

An artical appeared in the London Evening Stardard (dated 11 March 2004) relating to the new Heathrow Terminal 5. The artical has a side panel containing a number of interesting facts about the project. Every point that contained a weight or measure is listed below:

-The site is spread over 260 hectares-The same size as Hyde Park.

-The terminal building is almost a quarter of a mile long.

-The new 87 metre control tower will be the tallest in the UK.

-15,000 cubic metres of concrete will be poured each week at the site during the peak of the construction and a total of 80,000 tonnes of structural steel will be used.

-18 kilometres of conveyor belts will be installed to move baggage.

-13.5km of new road and rail tunnels will be built to serve the terminal.

So, that's 5-1 to metric.

Will the resultant confussion cause the fabric of British society to disintergrate ? No.

Does this prove anything ? No.

But that never stopped Tony with his press clippings.

re (metre): "An article appeared in the London Evening Standard (dated 11 March 2004) relating to the new Heathrow Terminal 5. The article has a side panel containing a number of interesting facts about the project. Every point that contained a weight or measure is listed below:

-The site is spread over 260 hectares - the same size as Hyde Park.

-The terminal building is almost a quarter of a mile long.

-The new 87 metre control tower will be the tallest in the UK.

-15,000 cubic metres of concrete will be poured each week at the site during the peak of the construction and a total of 80,000 tonnes of structural steel will be used.

-18 kilometres of conveyor belts will be installed to move baggage.

-13.5km of new road and rail tunnels will be built to serve the terminal".

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REPLY: Ah, yes! The exception that proves the rule


[P.S. Spelling of 'article' corrected above]

Taking Exception March 11 2004, 10:50 PM

re (metre): "An article appeared in the London Evening Standard (dated 11 March 2004) relating to the new Heathrow Terminal 5. The article has a side panel containing a number of interesting facts about the project. Every point that contained a weight or measure is listed below:

-The site is spread over 260 hectares - the same size as Hyde Park.

-The terminal building is almost a quarter of a mile long.

-The new 87 metre control tower will be the tallest in the UK.

-15,000 cubic metres of concrete will be poured each week at the site during the peak of the construction and a total of 80,000 tonnes of structural steel will be used.

-18 kilometres of conveyor belts will be installed to move baggage.

-13.5km of new road and rail tunnels will be built to serve the terminal".

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REPLY: Ah, yes! The exception that proves the rule


[P.S. Spelling of 'article' corrected above]


How pathetic. If you can't answer it any other way you resort to spelling mistakes, what a shame. We all make mistakes, but yours is not so easily excused, it was Evil Engineer who posted that illuminating article, not I. Besides miles are no exception here, they are still a legal unit.

The biggest mistake was made by your mother, eric!

<<Besides miles are no exception here, they are still a legal unit.>>

Ah yes! I remember the lie you peddled over on metricsucks - remember? When you were telling some foreign poster that the foot, inch and yard were not used in the UK and not legal!! Yeah! I remember!

Tony - if you want to hear a plethora of imperial measurements then tune into "Guinness world of records". I watched it last night and in one particular sentence there were more "feet inches and miles" than any other combination of words!! You would have found heaven!! ;-)

I'm lucky that he only found one spelling mistake with the state of my typing.

Plus I'm an Engineer and we're meant to be crap at spelling. I'm just living up to the sterotype.

Meanwhile, Tony's got a whole load of crazy old loon sterotypes of his own to live up to.

re (Evil Engineer): "just living up to the sterotype...
Meanwhile, Tony's got a whole load of crazy old loon sterotypes of his own to live up to".

CORRECTION: Stereotype

I rest my casre, M'Lud.

re (Evil Engineer): "I rest my casre, M'Lud".

CORRECTION: case

Looks like we can add "smug old git" to the list along with "crazy old loon".

Re: Heathrow Terminal 5 March 12 2004, 9:54 PM

I'm lucky that he only found one spelling mistake with the state of my typing.

Plus I'm an Engineer and we're meant to be crap at spelling. I'm just living up to the sterotype.

Meanwhile, Tony's got a whole load of crazy old loon stereotypes of his own to live up to

I would have thought, he excels them all.

That comma is totally unnecesary