Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2
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Ex-wife's tyre was looking flat (slow leak) so she rings me and asks what to do.
I tell her to pump it up to about 35psi (footpump in boot).
She calls back later saying she's had trouble cos the scale only goes up to 7,
so she did it up to 4 cos that's nearest to 35.
She didnt look at the other scale.
Happily bouncing along on tyres at 60psi
I tell her to pump it up to about 35psi (footpump in boot).
She calls back later saying she's had trouble cos the scale only goes up to 7,
so she did it up to 4 cos that's nearest to 35.
She didnt look at the other scale.
Happily bouncing along on tyres at 60psi
cootuk said:
Ex-wife's tyre was looking flat (slow leak) so she rings me and asks what to do.
I tell her to pump it up to about 35psi (footpump in boot).
She calls back later saying she's had trouble cos the scale only goes up to 7,
so she did it up to 4 cos that's nearest to 35.
She didnt look at the other scale.
Happily bouncing along on tyres at 60psi
That's just reminded me. I was sat waiting at a petrol station to check my tyre pressures watching some woman with a Corsa do just one wheel (oddly). When she left and I pulled forward, I noticed that the digital display read a reasonable 28 or something - until I noticed it was set to read in BAR, not PSI! I tell her to pump it up to about 35psi (footpump in boot).
She calls back later saying she's had trouble cos the scale only goes up to 7,
so she did it up to 4 cos that's nearest to 35.
She didnt look at the other scale.
Happily bouncing along on tyres at 60psi
Having written that, I've just looked up what 28 BAR is in PSI and it's just over 400 - I can't believe that forecourt machines inflate to that pressure can they? Maybe it was the other way around and she'd intended to set it to BAR and used PSI - leaving her 2PSI in her tyres - but then it'd have been flat and surely she'd have noticed.
I'm going to have to see what BAR reading they go up to now, she'd definitely got the wrong scale because it was at some ridiculous pressure.
Ari said:
That's just reminded me. I was sat waiting at a petrol station to check my tyre pressures watching some woman with a Corsa do just one wheel (oddly). When she left and I pulled forward, I noticed that the digital display read a reasonable 28 or something - until I noticed it was set to read in BAR, not PSI!
Having written that, I've just looked up what 28 BAR is in PSI and it's just over 400 - I can't believe that forecourt machines inflate to that pressure can they? Maybe it was the other way around and she'd intended to set it to BAR and used PSI - leaving her 2PSI in her tyres - but then it'd have been flat and surely she'd have noticed.
I'm going to have to see what BAR reading they go up to now, she'd definitely got the wrong scale because it was at some ridiculous pressure.
I am fairly confident the tyre would have failed long before 28 Bar.Having written that, I've just looked up what 28 BAR is in PSI and it's just over 400 - I can't believe that forecourt machines inflate to that pressure can they? Maybe it was the other way around and she'd intended to set it to BAR and used PSI - leaving her 2PSI in her tyres - but then it'd have been flat and surely she'd have noticed.
I'm going to have to see what BAR reading they go up to now, she'd definitely got the wrong scale because it was at some ridiculous pressure.
Ari said:
That's just reminded me. I was sat waiting at a petrol station to check my tyre pressures watching some woman with a Corsa do just one wheel (oddly). When she left and I pulled forward, I noticed that the digital display read a reasonable 28 or something - until I noticed it was set to read in BAR, not PSI!
Having written that, I've just looked up what 28 BAR is in PSI and it's just over 400 - I can't believe that forecourt machines inflate to that pressure can they? Maybe it was the other way around and she'd intended to set it to BAR and used PSI - leaving her 2PSI in her tyres - but then it'd have been flat and surely she'd have noticed.
I'm going to have to see what BAR reading they go up to now, she'd definitely got the wrong scale because it was at some ridiculous pressure.
2.8 bar is 40psi or thereabouts, maybe you misread?Having written that, I've just looked up what 28 BAR is in PSI and it's just over 400 - I can't believe that forecourt machines inflate to that pressure can they? Maybe it was the other way around and she'd intended to set it to BAR and used PSI - leaving her 2PSI in her tyres - but then it'd have been flat and surely she'd have noticed.
I'm going to have to see what BAR reading they go up to now, she'd definitely got the wrong scale because it was at some ridiculous pressure.
We were watching a repeat of the Top Gear Patagonia Special. (see clip)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJYNggux4-A
Mrs said " Well I wouldn't want to be stuck out there eating beaver either".
How I kept a straight face I'll never know.
Ari said:
That's just reminded me. I was sat waiting at a petrol station to check my tyre pressures watching some woman with a Corsa do just one wheel (oddly). When she left and I pulled forward, I noticed that the digital display read a reasonable 28 or something - until I noticed it was set to read in BAR, not PSI!
Having written that, I've just looked up what 28 BAR is in PSI and it's just over 400 - I can't believe that forecourt machines inflate to that pressure can they? Maybe it was the other way around and she'd intended to set it to BAR and used PSI - leaving her 2PSI in her tyres - but then it'd have been flat and surely she'd have noticed.
I'm going to have to see what BAR reading they go up to now, she'd definitely got the wrong scale because it was at some ridiculous pressure.
I was filling up my sister's car tyres for her just before Xmas, and a young lass in front of me in a Fiat 500 filled her tyres up to the maximum pressure printed in her sidewalls.Having written that, I've just looked up what 28 BAR is in PSI and it's just over 400 - I can't believe that forecourt machines inflate to that pressure can they? Maybe it was the other way around and she'd intended to set it to BAR and used PSI - leaving her 2PSI in her tyres - but then it'd have been flat and surely she'd have noticed.
I'm going to have to see what BAR reading they go up to now, she'd definitely got the wrong scale because it was at some ridiculous pressure.
Billsnemesis said:
Paul_M3 said:
What's classic about that? 
Evenings are always the same length. It is the amount of daylight that varies (unless you are moving close to the speed of light).I'm sure many people probably consider evening to end when the sun sets, which would make 'longer evenings' a perfectly valid description. It's certainly commonly used.
Even the telegraph has used it in headlines (albeit in the opposite way): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/financialservices/insur...
Edited by Paul_M3 on Thursday 4th February 19:07
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