On 18/08/2013 05:48, harryagain wrote:
"SteveW" wrote in message
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On 13/08/2013 18:11, harryagain wrote:
"Matty F" wrote in message
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I'd just like to make the point that any electric car that does not have
an alternative means of propulsion once the battery is flat, is
particularly stupid and so were the designers. Unless of course it has a
range of many hundreds of miles.

I never drive "many hundreds of miles."

I have had a couple of times where I have received a call to say a
relative has died and they are being buried the next morning - on the West
coast of Ireland! Too late to get a flight that night; the first flight
the next morning too late for us to get there. Jump in the car, drive
2-1/2 hours, catch a ferry, drive 4-1/2 hours and once, get there with 15
minutes to spare! No way with an electric car.

SteveW

Muslims?
Only muslims bury the next day.
Or they didn't really want your presence.
What's all this pre-occupation with death anyway?

It's also the Christian norm in Ireland. Someone dies in the morning,
there is a service (the Removal) in the evening and they are buried the
next morning. If they die in the afternoon, the Removal is the evening
of the next day, the burial is the day after.

The whole system is set up for it. Priests, undertakers, caterers, etc.
all ready at very short notice. Deaths are announced on the radio - as
announcements in the paper are abviously too slow.

SteveW