wow your parents suck..poor you! :( and that sucks that you have to walk 18 miles everyday...in cold weather :( FYL

1) It's snowing some places, so "winter weather" is not an unreasonable thing to say. 2) £60 is over 100 USD. Not necessarily that easy to come by, especially if... 3) OP may be a young kid with limited options. 4) Your parents totally suck. You could buy a pretty cheap bike and ride to school. And if you don't have the money, shovel snow (if there's snow) or do some silly jobs until you can afford a cheap solution.

Sad ive walked 8 kms in -30C you whinny bitch come to canada and face a real winter you basterd lolz

Your parents are asswipes and probably crackheads. MASSIVE parent FAIL.

@ capeicaz - actually smarty pants, France was the first country to officially adopt the metric system. they got the information they needed for it from England. it was from a guy you may have heard of - Benjamin Franklin. I dont know if you're up on your history, but is pretty much the original American. he may not be responsible for the original idea, but he is responsible for it's application. since he denounced his English heritage and became American, that makes +1 for America and 0 for you.

if you think that most of Benjamin Franklins work involved electricity then you don't know much about him. I site my source as wikipedia (if major news corporations can then so can I) and the basis of the metric system has been around since the dark ages, those are just people who have worked on the standards it uses. not to mention that the first modern publishing of the system was from a Finnish man, who you didn't mention.

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YLS because you have shitty parents

1. I did not say that the people whose names I've mentioned were the inventors - the verb I used was "promoted". Of course that the basis of this system had been around long before and it took centuries for it to be perfected and to become cohesive (a sine qua non condition for any system). However, I am glad that it was you who stated that the information had been around since "the Dark Ages" .The US started to form at the ending of that period, so it is quite impossible for any American to have had anything to do with the development of the metric system - it just seems hard to believe that anyone who is part of a nation that is trying to evolve and to obtain its independence gives a s*** about helping out with a project that would only benefit another country. 2. I did not say that most of Benjamin Franklin's work was about electricity - I did, however, say that his discoveries and inventions are mostly related to electricity. I do know that he was a politician, a diplomat and so on, but I did not mention anything about these activities simply because I considered them irrelevant in a discussion about physics. What I was trying to say is that most of his research (scientific research!!!) revolved around electricity - whereas the metric system is used for measurements in other branches of physics (such as mechanics or thermodynamics). Therefore, I believe that the French politicians of the time would have probably asked for the opinions of scientists who specialized in those particular branches of physics. 3. The fact that you are using wikipedia as a reference is a clear indicator of your shallow knowledge of the subject so it's obviously pointless for me to carry on with this debate. P.S. The verb is "cite", not "site" and when using the genitive you are supposed to put an apostrophe between the noun and the "s". Dude, if someone like me, for whom English is not the first language, can spot 2 grammar errors in 2 paragraphs of yours ..............:o :o :o

Maybe they're not arguing about money, but actually just playing a mean trick on you. They don't care about the money, they're using it as an excuse to make you walk 18 miles a day, (don't you people walk kilometers anyway?) because they hate you. You're probably the reason they got divorced.

You forgot the part where it's uphill both ways. But really, pay for your own bus pass or you know, buy a bike and quit complaining.

Steal the dough. They deserve that if they're making you piggy in the middle.