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[Rangie]

When I was a kid growing up in South London my nan & mum worked at a sweet factory ( candycraft)  Easter was fantastic back then.😃

[Keith ABS]

We can hope. I like to be optimistic

Question. Easter Presents. Is this a new thing? Chocolate eggs, yes. But presents, like at Christmas? I suspect commercial opportunism here, or am I being a tad cynical.

Would not surprise me if its another "Americanisum" we are following
Easter cards, never heard or seen one before.
We received one this year
Wont be sending any though

[Doctor Gollum]

Bit late now

[Mister Rog]

When I was a kid growing up in South London my nan & mum worked at a sweet factory ( candycraft)  Easter was fantastic back then.😃

When I was a kid growing up in South Wales my mum & dad had a sweet shop. Easter was fantastic back then.😃

(looking forward to cut price Easter Eggs tomorrow. Mind you they are so stupidly cheap these days, from what I see in shops).

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

When I was a kid growing up in South London my nan & mum worked at a sweet factory ( candycraft)  Easter was fantastic back then.😃

When I was a kid growing up in South Wales my mum & dad had a sweet shop. Easter was fantastic back then.😃

(looking forward to cut price Easter Eggs tomorrow. Mind you they are so stupidly cheap these days, from what I see in shops).

70% packaging.....30% chocolate.

They look good in the box but most people say  'is that all there is' when they open it.

[henryd]

Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. 

Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday!   

Happy Easter! 

Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !!  and i wasn't even completely empty 

Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive.

£172.9.  I don't acyually know how big tank is    Volvo V70

15 ish gallons from memory

[redelitev6]

I was out and about today , it all seemed very quiet 

[Mister Rog]

Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. 

Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday!   

Happy Easter! 

Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !!  and i wasn't even completely empty 

Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive.

£172.9.  I don't acyually know how big tank is    Volvo V70

15 ish gallons from memory

Gallons ? 
I know we stiil use MPG (god knows why), but . . . 

[STEMO]

18-21 gallons on one of those bad boys 
Edit, that's measley US gallons, so 15 proper gallons is about right, as Henry the speeder says. 

[Varche]

Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. 

Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday!   

Happy Easter! 

Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !!  and i wasn't even completely empty 

Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive.

£172.9.  I don't acyually know how big tank is    Volvo V70

15 ish gallons from memory

Gallons ? 
I know we stiil use MPG (god knows why), but . . . 

Be pleased you do. Britain ( and the Victorians) gave the world so much. Here in Spain - a metric country, we still buy pipe in inch or fractions thereof , diameter. Known as pulgadas. Car tyres are mostly in so many inches diameter. I still use mpg after all these years but admit I do also know how many km I do to a litre. This is mostly for conversation with Spaniards.
More obscure stuff like BSF are also to be found. Ditto strange nut sizes on machinery. It does make me smile.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Stolen from elsewhere and it made me chuckle. 

Christians say not to practice witchcraft or astrology, but celebrate the resurrection of a dead guy on the Sunday after the first full moon of the equinox and then they drink wine and bread, as his blood and body and incant over their animal sacrifices before they feast!

[Mister Rog]

Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. 

Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday!   

Happy Easter! 

Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !!  and i wasn't even completely empty 

Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive.

£172.9.  I don't acyually know how big tank is    Volvo V70

15 ish gallons from memory

Gallons ? 
I know we stiil use MPG (god knows why), but . . . 

Be pleased you do. Britain ( and the Victorians) gave the world so much. Here in Spain - a metric country, we still buy pipe in inch or fractions thereof , diameter. Known as pulgadas. Car tyres are mostly in so many inches diameter. I still use mpg after all these years but admit I do also know how many km I do to a litre. This is mostly for conversation with Spaniards.
More obscure stuff like BSF are also to be found. Ditto strange nut sizes on machinery. It does make me smile.

When I'm Emperor of the entire world (coming quite soon  ) . . . .

Total metrication will imposed on pain of death or serious physical torture. Odd fractions of an inch are just bonkers, totally random fluid measurements (8 pints to the gallon etc), 1,760 yards to the mile. Who the f*** thought all these up? I have a theory that it was just to give kids something to learn parrot fashion at school.

I used to sell medical equipment (made in the USA). On some items the length was metric (cms. EG 70 cms) diameter was a decimal of an imperial (EG  .038 of an inch). It is said that a space shuttle blew up due to such confusion, not surpised.



 

   

[countrywoman]

Watched an American hot rod show the other week and they were stuck as they had no metric spanners , strange as GM and Chrysler and Ford have been metric for years!!
 Went to mums for Easter lunch yesterday, not traditional as we had roast duck with roast veg!! 

[Andy B]

Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday. 

Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday!   

Happy Easter! 

Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !!  and i wasn't even completely empty 

Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive.

£172.9.  I don't acyually know how big tank is    Volvo V70

15 ish gallons from memory

Gallons ? 
I know we stiil use MPG (god knows why), but . . . 

Be pleased you do. Britain ( and the Victorians) gave the world so much. Here in Spain - a metric country, we still buy pipe in inch or fractions thereof , diameter. Known as pulgadas. Car tyres are mostly in so many inches diameter. I still use mpg after all these years but admit I do also know how many km I do to a litre. This is mostly for conversation with Spaniards.
More obscure stuff like BSF are also to be found. Ditto strange nut sizes on machinery. It does make me smile.

When I'm Emperor of the entire world (coming quite soon  ) . . . .

Total metrication will imposed on pain of death or serious physical torture. Odd fractions of an inch are just bonkers, totally random fluid measurements, 1,760 yards to the mile. Who the f*** thought all these up? I have a theory that it was just to give kids something to learn parrot fashion at school.

I used to sell medical equipment (made in the USA). On some items the length was metric (cms. EG 70 cms) diameter was a decimal of an imperial (EG  .038 of an inch). It is said that a space shuttle blew up due to such confusion, not surpised.

You could say that Britain is slowly inching towards metrification ..... 


 (8 pints to the gallon etc) and why does America have 16fl oz in a pint & we have 20? 

[STEMO]

Because Americans hate, and I mean hate, to be told that they speak English, not American. So they alter spellings and change the names of things. Bonnet, Hood......Pavement, Sidewalk..etc.
Even when a word is spelled the same, i.e. Tuesday, they still pronounce it differently, Toosday.
They also don't want to think that they use our system of measurements, basically for the same reason.

Basically, they are insecure tossers