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Post by silverdragon on Feb 12, 2014 8:02:21 GMT
You can keep him.
(Bear Grills)
Just what is he grilling this week?... oh look, its a rat that has been dead for a week or two.....
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Feb 12, 2014 12:10:01 GMT
I was hoping he might fall into the fire...would make for great TV.
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Post by the light works on Feb 12, 2014 12:31:54 GMT
man vs wild? am I evil if I cheer for wild?
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Feb 12, 2014 12:35:23 GMT
Now that you mention it, that show would benefit from a scoreboard...
Man 0
Wild 17
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 14, 2014 8:12:29 GMT
"Selfish" people....
News repost, "We aint had any sand bags here, we have got about a foot before it reaches our garden gate, and the authorities will only give you sandbags if its at your front door"...
Yes, thats because they are busy supplying sand bags to those houses in IMMEDIATE threat of flooding... they will get to you in turn, just because you have decided to go looking doesnt mean you have the right to jump to the front of the queue....
We have great sympathy for you, but can we get to the most urgent cases first please...?...
And when I say "We", I am contracted in to drive trucks of "sand" at the moment.
I am doing it at Minimum wage because the sand is being supplied "Free" from many places, transport forms are doing as much as they can at cost, so minimum wage is my contribution, as it just about covers my own expenses and keeps some food on the table here....
If I can do a day or two at regular rates elsewhere, I may be able to reduce my costs?...
There is a queue of drivers offering their days off and as much help as they can give...
Our National Farmers Union is looking for pledges.
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Post by freegan on Feb 14, 2014 9:26:46 GMT
I am doing it at Minimum wage because the sand is being supplied "Free" from many places, transport forms are doing as much as they can at cost, so minimum wage is my contribution, as it just about covers my own expenses and keeps some food on the table here.... If I can do a day or two at regular rates elsewhere, I may be able to reduce my costs?... There is a queue of drivers offering their days off and as much help as they can give... Our National Farmers Union is looking for pledges. Is this why Cameron can glibly say that money is no object? ... Because he expects everything supplied cheap or free? Seems like a plan of 'studied indifference' to infrastructure maintenance can yield savings. Wonder whose pockets get fullest from this debacle.  |
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Post by the light works on Feb 14, 2014 11:55:43 GMT
"Selfish" people.... News repost, "We aint had any sand bags here, we have got about a foot before it reaches our garden gate, and the authorities will only give you sandbags if its at your front door"... Yes, thats because they are busy supplying sand bags to those houses in IMMEDIATE threat of flooding... they will get to you in turn, just because you have decided to go looking doesnt mean you have the right to jump to the front of the queue.... We have great sympathy for you, but can we get to the most urgent cases first please...?... And when I say "We", I am contracted in to drive trucks of "sand" at the moment. I am doing it at Minimum wage because the sand is being supplied "Free" from many places, transport forms are doing as much as they can at cost, so minimum wage is my contribution, as it just about covers my own expenses and keeps some food on the table here.... If I can do a day or two at regular rates elsewhere, I may be able to reduce my costs?... There is a queue of drivers offering their days off and as much help as they can give... Our National Farmers Union is looking for pledges. as in they have a Gendarme in the hardware store forbidding you to pick up bags if you are not in the approved "flooding NOW" area? or, as I suspect, as in the aid workers are not showing up at their doorstep with bags filled with sand and placing them across the threshold while the complainers sit on the sofa and watch TV? |
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 15, 2014 9:43:12 GMT
There is a shortage of Sandbags.
No one suspected storms this bad, there just isnt any stockpile of sand bags left, as soon as we can get bags and sand together, they are needed somewhere....
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Post by the light works on Feb 15, 2014 12:36:57 GMT
There is a shortage of Sandbags. No one suspected storms this bad, there just isnt any stockpile of sand bags left, as soon as we can get bags and sand together, they are needed somewhere.... Ah, their stress is a little more understandable, then. here, we have enough places where people can get bags and sand on their own that even in flooding conditions, people who are willing to take the initiative can acquire them - but still people complain because the gummint doesn't do it for them. (sometimes the same ones who were earlier complaining about the nanny state) have you seen on youtube the kid who invented the self filling sandbag? it uses a mixture of salt and a hydrogel so you just drop the bag in the water and it absorbs enough to fill the bag. add velcro to hold them together, and you have a wall of sandbags without the sand. I'm a bit concerned about the fact that they don't have much more mass than the water; but for still water and doorways, they seem like a good system. |
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Post by the light works on Feb 15, 2014 12:40:15 GMT
I am going to declare the people in question "newophiles" these are the people who declare that anything new must be the best thing since sliced broccoli; and we all must jump on the bandwagon and adopt it because it will save us all.
a case to demonstrate - someone made a suggestion somewhere that since the Smart Fortwo was such a wonderful economical car (almost as good on gas mileage as the BMW Mini) that it should be the only kind of car sold, and nobody should be allowed to own a bigger car.
feel free to consider the problems if, say, you have three children too young to drive.
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Post by wvengineer on Feb 15, 2014 13:28:15 GMT
There is one thing that the Smart ForTwo is good for. That is the car I would buy a teenager who has to have a car. It is rather cheap to purchase, cheap to put gas in, cheap to insure, it is so small they won't be taking more than one friend at any given time, it's 0-60 time is so slow (>16 sec) that they won't be racing anyone in it. Perfect car for a teenager. For a family car, hell no.
I know several people who have the mentality that if a car says hybrid, then it therefore must be the best car out there and they only thing that anyone should drive. Ignore the fact that their hybrid Tahoe get poorer mileage than the Subaru Outback I had and for the price of their Prius, I can get a lightly used midsize car and spend less total on the car including gas and insurance over the life of the car.
I know a Prius owner and a VW Jetta TDI owner where I work, and the TDI regularly gets better mileage than the hybrdi, and the TDI is SOOOO much more fun to drive.
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Post by the light works on Feb 15, 2014 14:02:45 GMT
There is one thing that the Smart ForTwo is good for. That is the car I would buy a teenager who has to have a car. It is rather cheap to purchase, cheap to put gas in, cheap to insure, it is so small they won't be taking more than one friend at any given time, it's 0-60 time is so slow (>16 sec) that they won't be racing anyone in it. Perfect car for a teenager. For a family car, hell no. I know several people who have the mentality that if a car says hybrid, then it therefore must be the best car out there and they only thing that anyone should drive. Ignore the fact that their hybrid Tahoe get poorer mileage than the Subaru Outback I had and for the price of their Prius, I can get a lightly used midsize car and spend less total on the car including gas and insurance over the life of the car. I know a Prius owner and a VW Jetta TDI owner where I work, and the TDI regularly gets better mileage than the hybrdi, and the TDI is SOOOO much more fun to drive. our station secretary drives a Smart and she loves it. it is bright red, fits nicely through traffic, and if there are no spaces at the supermarket, she can park it in her purse. and if they need to go somewhere out of town they can drive the Caprice classic they have for that purpose. the point being that every car has a design function. the Smart takes the secretary to and from work at speeds not exceeding 35 MPH. the Prius hits peak efficiency in traffic jams, and my brother's one ton extended bed crew cab pickup carries his three girls AND their schoolwork. (kidding, I am including the oldest's robotics club hardware in the schoolwork category) and with all due respect to Jeremy Clarkson, the Lincoln Continental Mark V does an excellent job of showing off how much money a person can spend on a mobile recliner; which is essentially what a 1970s era American luxury car is designed to do. |
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Post by OziRiS on Feb 16, 2014 1:51:43 GMT
There is one thing that the Smart ForTwo is good for. That is the car I would buy a teenager who has to have a car. It is rather cheap to purchase, cheap to put gas in, cheap to insure, it is so small they won't be taking more than one friend at any given time, it's 0-60 time is so slow (>16 sec) that they won't be racing anyone in it. Perfect car for a teenager. For a family car, hell no. Have you ever seen teenagers drving around in a Smart? There may not be seats for more than two people, but if they're going to a party or whatever, they'll find the room! I've seen 5 teenagers stuffed into one of those a few years back. One guy in the driver's seat, one in the trunk - if you can call it a trunk - and no less than 3 in the passenger's seat (one guy with two petite girls sitting on top of each other on his lap). Same thing goes for two-seater sports cars. Two guys are out on the town, they meet a couple of girls and decide to take them somewhere and the next thing you know it's like a clown car in there. |
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Post by OziRiS on Feb 16, 2014 2:05:25 GMT
I am going to declare the people in question "newophiles" these are the people who declare that anything new must be the best thing since sliced broccoli; and we all must jump on the bandwagon and adopt it because it will save us all. I hate those people! New is good if it fulfills an actual need and does it better than whatever did the job before it was invented and introduced, but new just for the sake of new? I'll never get that! I agree that we need a word for those people, but "newophile" just sounds a little too much like "neophile", which, according to our good friend Wikipedia is not as much someone who has a love for anything new as it's someone with a distaste or downright loathing of tradition, repetition, and routine. Loving everything that's new doesn't necessarily mean hating everything that's not. How about "newoholics" as an alternative? |
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Post by freegan on Feb 16, 2014 2:49:00 GMT
I am going to declare the people in question "newophiles" these are the people who declare that anything new must be the best thing since sliced broccoli; and we all must jump on the bandwagon and adopt it because it will save us all. I hate those people! New is good if it fulfills an actual need and does it better than whatever did the job before it was invented and introduced, but new just for the sake of new? I'll never get that! I agree that we need a word for those people, but "newophile" just sounds a little too much like "neophile", which, according to our good friend Wikipedia is not as much someone who has a love for anything new as it's someone with a distaste or downright loathing of tradition, repetition, and routine. Loving everything that's new doesn't necessarily mean hating everything that's not. Not according to Chambers which simply defines it as "someone who loves novelty and new things; someone who is obsessive about keeping up to date with fashion, trends, etc" What about those products that satisfy a desire (as opposed to a need) that was not apparent before the product was marketed? Should we call their early, eager adopters "Walkmanites"? |
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Post by the light works on Feb 16, 2014 14:23:30 GMT
I like all the terms - and after all, multiple terms for the same thing is the American way.
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 17, 2014 8:48:57 GMT
I am going to declare the people in question "newophiles" these are the people who declare that anything new must be the best thing since sliced broccoli; and we all must jump on the bandwagon and adopt it because it will save us all. a case to demonstrate - someone made a suggestion somewhere that since the Smart Fortwo was such a wonderful economical car (almost as good on gas mileage as the BMW Mini) that it should be the only kind of car sold, and nobody should be allowed to own a bigger car. feel free to consider the problems if, say, you have three children too young to drive. I say get that person to watch the footage from the Fifth Gear crash test of the smart. Its still on yo-tube somewhere?... the full length version, where VBH declares the driver would be DEAD..... Any decent "Larger" vehicle, the driver would walk away. For me, the not-so-smart should be in here on its own right, as a vehicle that is a death trap In ANY traffic above 20mph. |
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 17, 2014 8:54:36 GMT
On the subject of Micro cars.
Those that take their half-a-car and hide it in a car park between two larger vehicles so far in that it effectively looks like an empty space.
I am sure they do it on purpose and then go and hide and laugh at people they have "Fooled"....
I think fool on them for driving such a joke of a handbag on wheels.
I have seen retribution.....
Some helpful person dumped a load of empty shopping trolleys in the front of that micro car so other drivers could see the space was full.
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Post by the light works on Feb 17, 2014 14:27:04 GMT
I am going to declare the people in question "newophiles" these are the people who declare that anything new must be the best thing since sliced broccoli; and we all must jump on the bandwagon and adopt it because it will save us all. a case to demonstrate - someone made a suggestion somewhere that since the Smart Fortwo was such a wonderful economical car (almost as good on gas mileage as the BMW Mini) that it should be the only kind of car sold, and nobody should be allowed to own a bigger car. feel free to consider the problems if, say, you have three children too young to drive. I say get that person to watch the footage from the Fifth Gear crash test of the smart. Its still on yo-tube somewhere?... the full length version, where VBH declares the driver would be DEAD..... Any decent "Larger" vehicle, the driver would walk away. For me, the not-so-smart should be in here on its own right, as a vehicle that is a death trap In ANY traffic above 20mph. and what did they crash it into to come to that conclusion? we have people of that mentality they dive the Chevy Suburban or the Ford even-bigger-than-a-suburban. "look how big my truck is. if I get in a collision I'll just walk away." so one fo them drove over the hood of a honda car - broke the front axle off the suburban, and yep - off to the hospital in an ambulance. |
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Post by kharnynb on Feb 18, 2014 21:23:48 GMT
Can i drop off jamie "i'm from essex" oliver here?
His 15 minutes meals were already a joke without a full prep team, but his "cheap" food series is taking the p*ss....
Cheap food when you buy 26 pound/kg salmon from the fishmonger instead of the supermarket......
Ps. you are not a chef, you never graduated from any chef college, you can't even fry a burger without ramming a spatula on top of it.. you tw*t
{Watch the language please - CM}
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