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nalah

11-19-2002, 04:44 PM

a bit confusing....
whats the difference? apart from the obvious guys. LOL
i know that gallons is more than imperial gallons...

which one do you use in canada and the US.

Ivan

11-19-2002, 06:31 PM

Hi Pascale, Imperial Gallons are more than us Gallons.
Imperial gallons is 4.5 litres while us is 4. I think. In Canada and US they use us gall HTH

11-19-2002, 08:14 PM

We don't use Liters in the US so it doesn't come out even. A gallon is four quarts and 3.78 Liters.

IMP gal: 1
U.S. gal: 1.2
LITERS: 4.54

Rod

11-20-2002, 06:06 AM

1 imperial gallon = 4.454 liters

nalah

11-20-2002, 06:41 AM

thanks guys...
i just want to get used to this gallon thingy....
as most of you use it - unlike us modern dudes here in oz..we use metric. ;D

11-20-2002, 07:55 AM

I wouldn't mind if we were metric too. I just wish we were all the same.

Francisco_Borrero

11-20-2002, 01:31 PM

The real world uses gallons, centimeters and kilograms.
It is the british and their former colonies including americans, who use those other measurements, and can't even agree on which ones to use !!

Ivan

11-20-2002, 01:55 PM

Hi Rod, I knew it was something like that but I wan't going to go look fot the right convesion so I rounded it off. TY.
I use gallons, inches, feet,miles, pounds ounces etc.... Sodding cms are confusing!

Smokey

11-20-2002, 03:15 PM

morning Pascale;
1000mm x 500mm x 700mm/350kg/350L/30.3C/very happy discus.

eh !!

nalah

11-20-2002, 04:22 PM

G'day Smokey - can always reply on you for a laugh..LOL

fransico - disagree... as gal. is imperial..the others are metric. most of europe and here,we use litres,not gal.
as for england - they are a bit behind,wouldn't you say... i mean,they still have a queen...that speaks for itself...LOL

Ivan

11-20-2002, 08:57 PM

Now now Pascale, calm down, no need for those remarks. Which queen where you on about incidently? lol
So how big is it then smokey haha, rotflmao

Smokey

11-20-2002, 09:38 PM

Good one Pascale.
the brits are a bit antiquated. tea and crumpets. ha I say ha.. beer and pretsals. eh !
Ivan.. the answer is there.
Ah, the Americans - their gallon is only 3.785 liters,
Imperial gallon is 4.54609 liters

I thinks the Boston Tea party got out of hand !!!1

Brrrr
smokey

nalah

11-21-2002, 03:32 AM

sorry Ivan - i forgot to be more specific... you do have quite a few queens over there,don't you.LOL.

truth of the matter is that whether its gallons or litres...if i bring anymore into the house,I'm going to get the crap beaten out of me...LOL ;D

Rod

11-21-2002, 05:39 AM

OK , so we have all these different answers to the imperial gallons issue. I must admit to not actually looking it up when i answered before, so i checked my dictionary and it defines imperial gallons as 4.54609 liters.......boy was i way out!! Been useing 4.454 for ages ::)

I love the metric system, everything works in units of 10's so easy to use.