Yipeee! I´m not a Newbie anymore!

[unclehobart]

I get little creepy dejavu premonitions like that from time to time as well.

 

[outside looking in]

Damn spammers...

 

[Leslie]

unclehobart, do you really call it petrol? Who'da thunk it?

 

[Justintime]

i always call it petrol

 

[Leslie]

Well, I figured that, but did you think that *shhh, whisper "americans"* would call it petrol? I'dve thought it would've been gas. Hmm, live and learn

 

[unclehobart]

I'm the only yank talking to a pack of Canadians and English. I am just modifying my linguistics to suit the audience at hand. I can say 'gas' per normal ... but someone might think I was speaking of a burp or a methane emission.

 

[Justintime]

aye true! innit yo?
oi! geeza, whats you doin callern gas petrol aye? bollox mate, yous gotta stick ta ya tradition yo

 

[unclehobart]

Word up, brotha man.

..now pass me a fag.

 

[Justintime]

ok bruv, longs you gotsa light

 

[Leslie]

Thanks for dumbing it down for the masses, unc

 

[MitchSchaft]

what's petrol?

 

[unclehobart]

Petrol is that low octane gas that they dish out in lousy 1/4 gallon increments.

 

[outside looking in]

Isn't it more expensive than gasoline?

 

[MitchSchaft]

gas rules

 

[nodnod]

Gas is 75.9 cents a litre here (Nova Scotia, Canada). I guess americans don't now what a litre is though. A litre is ummmm... uhhhh... well there are 3.785 litres in a gallon

 

[MitchSchaft]

Gas is $1.30 right now. I'm not a newbie anymore

 

[nodnod]

1.30 a gallon? that would work out to 34.3 cents a litre which is still cheaper than here by about 12 cents american a litre.

 

[Jeffy79]

?( ?( X( 8) 8) nuke em, nuke em all . Lets take over the fields, .50 a gallon, but restrict travel X(

 

[Leslie]

here we're about 65c, fairly steady. I still have oil heat though so I'm deeply concerned now with the Middle East stuff

I stopped watching the news. How is Argentina doing now, unc?

 

[Gato_Solo]

Argentina is still a question mark. Venezuela, otoh, has their tinpot despot back after a 5 day hide-out he took. As a result, oil prices surged again, and, soon, the price of gasoline will rise again as well. Perhaps the US should start buying more oil from Mexico...