Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: occam <occam@nowhere.nix>
Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: OT: Converting miles/km
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:30:54 +0200
Lines: 42
Message-ID: <llav1tF8jkfU1@mid.individual.net>
References: <slrnvepbvk.tfc.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
 <8a49d912-d0bf-3ca1-6f10-2639a7e8eddc@email.de>
 <vcjhnd$12ln8$1@dont-email.me> <vcjjfc$12q47$1@dont-email.me>
 <PHjHO.77890$Xx4a.53847@fx11.ams1> <vcls37$1gu4a$1@dont-email.me>
 <vcm8gu$1ir8o$1@dont-email.me> <ll81ukFpljpU1@mid.individual.net>
 <875xqpdouq.fsf@parhasard.net> <vcn5p4$1n4ql$1@dont-email.me>
 <j2suejdqu7d0btfgnb3qtue7hue4q8apij@4ax.com>
 <MPG.415a1e1992d74ab983@news.individual.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: individual.net NBA9juUiIFozbrRzXQ7cUAc4/Tly6kZwlMGi6O7PKhqDuw7MFP
Cancel-Lock: sha1:E9JKTw8p8N47KVc6tmXoklN1NCQ= sha256:88rtyU1WCvRlKAhl2XHGTzQUIeNElmJJYIS1lZyuouc=
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Content-Language: en-GB
In-Reply-To: <MPG.415a1e1992d74ab983@news.individual.net>
Bytes: 3082

On 22/09/2024 14:29, Janet wrote:
> In article <j2suejdqu7d0btfgnb3qtue7hue4q8apij@4ax.com>, 
> rich.ulrich@comcast.net says...
>>
>> On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 21:11:31 +0200, Silvano
>> <Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it> wrote:
>>
>>> Aidan Kehoe hat am 21.09.2024 um 17:10 geschrieben:
>>>>  > On 21/09/2024 12:52, Silvano wrote:
>>>>  > > Japan was already wiser 40 years ago, but the more appropriate name is
>>>>  > > probably "speed limit warnings".
>>>>  > > A friend gave me a ride there when an alarm sound went off.
>>>>  > > - What does this noise mean?
>>>>  > > - I was driving at over 100 km/h (the speed limit on their highways at
>>>>  > > that time). We have a warning system on all our cars.
>>>>  > > - What about all those cars overtaking us? Do they produce the same noise?
>>>>  > > - Yes.
>>>>  > 
>>>>  > This sound warning is optional on my car (i.e. can be disabled). The
>>>>  > visual warning (on the GPS display) however, is not. 
>>>
>> >From what I saw at that time, Japan was ridiculously underdeveloped on
>>> some items (washing machines, squat toilets - well, they moved on in
>>> these 40 years and we should learn a lot from them about modern toilets,
>>> see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan>), but it was much
>>> better than Continental Europe on other items (bullet trains, fax etc.).
>>> But even they did not have GPS displays 40 years ago.
>>>
>>
>> I found that article on toilets in Japan to be interesting.  I once 
>> read a whole book about bathrooms, so it could be that I am easily
>> amused. 
> 
>   On my bucket-list;  test-driving a Japanese-style 
> washlet toilet.
> 
>  Must be the whole shebang with voice activated commands, 
> warm water bum wash and hot air dryer.
> 

Have you started learning Japanese for the voice activation part?  One
wrong intonation, and the seat may incinerate your privates.