Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]

[Wing Commander]

walm said:

I think it is like pressing the "door close" button in a lift or that button to activate a pelican crossing (after the first press).
Feels good to hammer away at it but doesn't achieve anything.

Why do they need to be activated anyway? Does the cashier check you aren't doing this?

Or are they waiting for the OK from ANPR?

All good questions!

Not doubting you, but would be good to also hear from anyone who has worked in a petrol station too. I need to know 100% that I am going through the petrol station at the fastest pace possible!

[V41LEY]

droopsnoot said:

Ayahuasca said:

Are there any 70s Top of the Pops shows that don't feature a sex offender?

Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds, Ed Stuart, Kid Jensen, John Peel, must be loads of others*. I don't know who was presenting last nights re-run, I haven't watched it yet.

I've noticed Operation Yewtree has killed TOTP2 !
No more 'now then now then, jingle jangle' !

[kowalski655]

When I have been waiting to pay,the bong in the kiosk seems to go off regularly till the guy behind the till sorts it,I imagine its so if they are off stacking shelves or having a pee,it keeps going till they do some bloody work!
I suspect its manually activated so they can check its all OK before dispensing,not having a 12 year old pumping fuel into a jerry can as I saw the other day,watched by his dad!

[stanthebiker]

kowalski655 said:

not having a 12 year old pumping fuel into a jerry can as I saw the other day,watched by his dad!

Heaven forbid!

[P-Jay]

Wing Commander said:

When you go to fill up your car at the petrol station, and you have to wait for the pump to be authorised.

Does the check out desk make a bing bong each time I pull the trigger to the fuel gun, or just keep repeating a bing bong after I pulled it the first time, or does it just bing bong when I first pull the gun off the pump rack thing.

Thanks

Worked in a Tesco petrol station for a short while in mid-90's it's probably changed since - the trigger does nothing unless the pump is active - when you lift the nozzle there was a bong and a light at the desk - they're meant to check a few things before they turn it on - the nozzle is in the filler or appropriate container, the customer isn't smoking, using a mobile or obviously drunk, retarded etc etc, but a busy station can have 20-30 pumps and pretty terrible visibility so most staff just hit the button without a second thought - different at night, the one I worked in was in a quiet little town and the store itself was tucked away in a quiet little brownfield area - still it seemed to be a mecca for mentalists and wrong 'uns - was pretty happy to lock the doors and open the hatch at 9pm.

Anyway, if you wanted to piss the staff off into turning the pump on quicker you could replace the nozzle a few times, but it used to cause havoc with the tills recording 'nil sales'.

All changed now, most 'pay at pump' pumps are open all night in an otherwise unmanned station - I guess they just rely on ANPR and CCTV to ensure the money is safe, as for stopping a suicidal lunatic from using the pump as some terrible, admittedly very short range, flame thrower not much use!

[TwigtheWonderkid]

droopsnoot said:

Ayahuasca said:

Are there any 70s Top of the Pops shows that don't feature a sex offender?

Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds, Ed Stuart, Kid Jensen, John Peel, must be loads of others*. I don't know who was presenting last nights re-run, I haven't watched it yet.

John Peel? You sure about that?

[kowalski655]

Some woman accused him of getting her up the duff at 15,and she had an abortion. She only said this after his death of course,but when I googled it(couldnt believe it either) he did ay he had a few groupies & didnt always ask for a birth certificate

[Willy Nilly]

When people die after contracting Ebola, is it De-hydration that kills them?

[deeen]

kowalski655 said:

When I have been waiting to pay,the bong in the kiosk seems to go off regularly till the guy behind the till sorts it,I imagine its so if they are off stacking shelves or having a pee,it keeps going till they do some bloody work!
I suspect its manually activated so they can check its all OK before dispensing,not having a 12 year old pumping fuel into a jerry can as I saw the other day,watched by his dad!

I did wonder if it gave them a chance to check if the car before had paid, also?

[shakotan]

Wing Commander said:

walm said:

Wing Commander said:

When you go to fill up your car at the petrol station, and you have to wait for the pump to be authorised.

Does the check out desk make a bing bong each time I pull the trigger to the fuel gun, or just keep repeating a bing bong after I pulled it the first time, or does it just bing bong when I first pull the gun off the pump rack thing.

Thanks

Gun off the rack, I think.
I just stand there holding it looking like a plum until the pump starts whirring.
I never bother pulling the trigger before that.

OK so I guess it actually does make sense that it triggers a bing bong when it comes off the rack, for those who do not press the trigger before it is ready to dispense.

Final question though - does lifting the gun set of repeated bing bongs, or does lifting it just light up the light on their monitor and give one bing bong? If so, does pressing the trigger do anything further?

I kinda want to know that if I put the gun in the filler neck and keep repeatedly pressing the trigger, I can wear down the check out person enough to activate my pump ASAP!

There are many different petrol pump control systems, so it depends on which one as to how the alarms work.

Every system will be activated by the nozzle leaving the rack, but there the similarity ends. Some just continually beep until authorised, some just utter a single chime then flash until authorised, but squeezing the trigger does nothing as it's not connected to anything electronic.

[tickious]

Which is cheaper to run, a gas or electric cooker?

[Spanglepants]

I could cry- doh !

walm said:

Spanglepants said:

When describing decades why are 'The Forties" spelt without the U.The other decades are spelt the same as the number (someones going to point out something very obvious now)

The Fiveties says hi.

[Pet Troll]

boyse7en said:

Ayahuasca said:

So the actual water in a boiling kettle will always be less than 100 degrees C?

The water in a kettle will reach 100 deg C and at that point the water will begin to turn into steam and evaporate off. Therefore the water cannot achieve a temperature of greater than 100deg (at atmospheric pressure).

The only reason a kettle would not reach 100 deg would be if the thermostatic switch was set too low.

Depending on altitude water boils at different temperatures.

I think for roughly every thousand feet above sea level boiling point is a degree lower.

So presumably boiling a kettle in holland would take longer than in switzerland

[droopsnoot]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

droopsnoot said:

Ayahuasca said:

Are there any 70s Top of the Pops shows that don't feature a sex offender?

Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds, Ed Stuart, Kid Jensen, John Peel, must be loads of others*. I don't know who was presenting last nights re-run, I haven't watched it yet.

John Peel? You sure about that?

Er, er, OK, perhaps not. I knew he'd done some early ones, but obviously a bit later than I thought.

(I was about to add a crack about which part of my assertion you were questioning, just like in my original comment I was going to add a crack about "at time of posting", but it doesn't seem right somehow.)

[krunchkin]

Peel definitely shuffled off at the right time to preserve his legacy

[RobinBanks]

krunchkin said:

Peel definitely shuffled off at the right time to preserve his legacy

If there are things out there it doesn't stop people coming forward.

Savile had been dead for some time when the allegations started and snowballed. The fact that it hasn't happened to Peel suggests to me he probably didn't do anything.

[kowalski655]

errr...see my post above

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216453/Jo...

[Patch1875]

On a plane why do they dim the lights when taking off and landing at night?

[BristolRich]

Patch1875 said:

On a plane why do they dim the lights when taking off and landing at night?

Interior lights are supposed to approximate outside conditions so your eyes can rapidly adjust in case of an emergency.

[GTIR]

BristolRich said:

Patch1875 said:

On a plane why do they dim the lights when taking off and landing at night?

Interior lights are supposed to approximate outside conditions so your eyes can rapidly adjust in case of an emergency.

That's partly why I walk around at night with one eye shut so I can tackle any ninjas or special forces that want to extinguish my life with extreme prejudice.