On 2020-05-18 19:01, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:

> This is one of the significant differences between Europeans and
> Americans
> or Australians... Europeans think 100 miles (150km) is a long distance.

It is, because what's really being counted is not the distance, but the
painful number of pubs bypassed along the way. ;-)

Alan

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Bicycles are the most efficient machine yet invented for turning energy
into motion. Indeed, the bicycle has been accurately described as a kind
of green car, which can run on tap water and tea cakes and, moreover,
has a built-in gym.

Lord Taverne, UK House of Lords, in Nov 2015 debate