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Old 27-07-10, 07:05 PM   #11
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It`s a Tarriff set by the Government isn`t it ?
There is an upper limit of £29.65, but test centres can charge what they like up to that. An MOT certificate logged on the system only costs them something like £1.20, but you have to factor in their time doing the test as well.
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Old 27-07-10, 07:05 PM   #12
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I thought it was £29:65 ?
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Old 27-07-10, 07:06 PM   #13
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Silly english(ish) man who can't use punctuation!



£29.65
Englishish? I'm bloody Maltese.

The point is meant to be at half text height, so a dash is deemed acceptable.
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Old 27-07-10, 07:07 PM   #14
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I usually take a packet of Choccy Hobnobs along as well , it`s amazing how Choccy Hobnobs can make an MOT tester be slightly deafer than he usually is on Exhaust checks
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Old 27-07-10, 07:08 PM   #15
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maybe in Malta but your in britain and we is thick
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Old 27-07-10, 07:11 PM   #16
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Englishish? I'm bloody Maltese.

The point is meant to be at half text height, so a dash is deemed acceptable.
/derail please

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Old 27-07-10, 07:15 PM   #17
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maybe in Malta, but you're in britain and we is (are) thick.
So it would seem.
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Old 27-07-10, 07:18 PM   #18
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knew that would get you ... .... .... .... ... ... ... .. . .

i have an excuse though. i is thick
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Old 27-07-10, 07:18 PM   #19
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The point is meant to be at half text height, so a dash is deemed acceptable.
I thought a point at half hight meant a continuation of a pattern.

A decimal (we use a decimalised currency) always appears at the bottom...

Them daft Euro lot use different standards.

ps I pay nothing for my MoT because the AA kindly cover mine

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Old 27-07-10, 07:26 PM   #20
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I thought a point at half hight meant a continuation of a pattern.

A decimal (we use a decimalised currency) always appears at the bottom...

Them daft Euro lot use different standards.

ps I pay nothing for my MoT because the AA kindly cover mine
It would appear we are both correct to some extent. I just found this on tinternet

"In the nations of the British Empire, although the period could be used in typewritten material, the point (middle dot: ·), which can also be called an interpunct (often referred to as the decimal point) was preferred for the decimal separator in printing technologies that could accommodate it.[3] This had the advantage of reducing confusion in the countries that used the period to separate groups of digits and it was generally clearer in handwriting (particularly when writing on a dotted baseline as on many forms)."

As my family were brought up in the wonderful British Empire, it's no small wonder I was taught to use an interpunct, they also taught me to use it at junior school when we went decimal in the early 70s.
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