I’m old enough to remember when the prices went above £1 a litre, all the garages having to get their signs updated so they could have four digits on the price. Some of them using wheelie bin stickers or handwritten "1"s as a stop gap.

Wonder what they’ll do this time around, the ones that didn’t think far enough ahead to have a full seven-segment display fitted?

  • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Having moved to the US recently and encountering the insane distances people drive here.

    I do wonder why (other than the downwards mobility of a decayed empire) everyone in the UK isn’t using EVs, unless you’re doing donuts on a roundabout on your way beat up staff over a ham sandwich, an EV can get you from Birmingham to anywhere south of Glasgow on a single charge.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I remembered when this happened in Australia. they just ended up painting a section the pole the same colour as the rest of the number.