Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
Discussion
Vipers said:
Apart from being fekking annoying, why do immigration stamp passports on random pages, why not start at the top of page one, then then put the next stamp underneath that and so on.
If you had to stamp 5000 passports a day, finding the first open space on the first available page is going to take much more time and effort than just randomly opening any page and any spot and hitting it with the stamp.Impasse said:
Why do so many actors and comedians have strong Left leaning political views? Is there ever going to be a smug, self gratifying satire show based around Right of centre viewpoints?
Isn't that what Jeremy Kyle is? I think it's generally much harder to make right wing comedy. The best I can think of is when the left is criticising itself, like the right-on chap who was Malcolm Tucker's counterpoint in The Thick of It.Quite recently on a lot of long vehicles think lorries, trucks and recovery vans at the back of them I have seen two plastic things sticking out from the back of the vehicles, one to the left and one to the right - they all have a red light.
What are these? Are they parking sensors or do they tell the driver there is something beside the vehicle?
What are these? Are they parking sensors or do they tell the driver there is something beside the vehicle?
schmunk said:
You don't really know how conversation works, do you?quotemehappy said:
Quite recently on a lot of long vehicles think lorries, trucks and recovery vans at the back of them I have seen two plastic things sticking out from the back of the vehicles, one to the left and one to the right - they all have a red light.
What are these? Are they parking sensors or do they tell the driver there is something beside the vehicle?
What are these? Are they parking sensors or do they tell the driver there is something beside the vehicle?
They are marker lights. As simple as that.
All that jazz said:
quotemehappy said:
Quite recently on a lot of long vehicles think lorries, trucks and recovery vans at the back of them I have seen two plastic things sticking out from the back of the vehicles, one to the left and one to the right - they all have a red light.
What are these? Are they parking sensors or do they tell the driver there is something beside the vehicle?
What are these? Are they parking sensors or do they tell the driver there is something beside the vehicle?
They are marker lights. As simple as that.
They are rubber and generally get ripped off all the time. We have a small stock of them at work as we lose one every few months.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-X-LED-SIDE-RUBBER-ELBO...
singlecoil said:
schmunk said:
You don't really know how conversation works, do you?oceanview said:
Thinking about aftermarket suspension bushes- like Powerflex ,etc, if these are so beneficial to the feel/drive of the car, how come manufactures don't fit from the factory?
'NVH': Noise, vibration and harshness. 90% of people just want to drive somewhere in comfort and quietness.SilverSpur said:
Vipers said:
Apart from being fekking annoying, why do immigration stamp passports on random pages, why not start at the top of page one, then then put the next stamp underneath that and so on.
If you had to stamp 5000 passports a day, finding the first open space on the first available page is going to take much more time and effort than just randomly opening any page and any spot and hitting it with the stamp.V8FGO said:
DickyC said:
In the area of the Front Line during the First World War, where did the displaced French and Belgian civilians go?
http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/refugees_franceThere were around 160000 displaced Belgians in 1914-15 that came to the UK.
It didn't occur to me until I read somewhere about farmers going back on to their land as soon as it was won back from the Germans and sewing crops. But it must have been such a tiny proportion of the farmers who were able to do that I wondered what became of the rest of them.
Edited by DickyC on Sunday 3rd July 23:25
singlecoil said:
Why does cellophane etc not want to tear in the direction that you are trying to? I was trying to unwrap a multi-pack of tuna today and the stuff was tearing almost at a right angle to the force I was exerting.
My rusty understanding is that the stuff is VERY stretchy. Highly rip-resistant. Imagine a tug of war with a polythene bag, it would stretch for a long while before ripping.But once you have broken a chain in the polymer that makes the thing, you have a VERY targeted pressure on the next bond, adjacent to that first broken one.
So the rip will progress in-line with the direction of the chain of the polymer rather than in a nice ordinary line equidistant from your hands like paper.
That's why they have the huge number of teeth to cut it in the tubes of the stuff to give you a fighting chance of a line.
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