Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]

[Willy Nilly]

Number plates:

I know that the first 2 letters are an area code, the second 2 are age related, so the 3rd 3, are the random or consecutive? Is you have AB66CDE, would the next vehicle registered at that office be AB66CDF?

[kowalski655]

Willy Nilly said:

Number plates:

I know that the first 2 letters are an area code, the second 2 are age related, so the 3rd 3, are the random or consecutive? Is you have AB66CDE, would the next vehicle registered at that office be AB66CDF?

I believe so, that's why dealers will often have cars with consecutive, or near consecutive plates at new plate time

[Rostfritt]

kowalski655 said:

Willy Nilly said:

Number plates:

I know that the first 2 letters are an area code, the second 2 are age related, so the 3rd 3, are the random or consecutive? Is you have AB66CDE, would the next vehicle registered at that office be AB66CDF?

I believe so, that's why dealers will often have cars with consecutive, or near consecutive plates at new plate time

I have seen fleet cars like this, so I would assume so. I have noticed that my Dad's car has a plate that has the last two letters quite close, which means they were registered in the same area shortly after. They are completely different cars though.

Another question. Why did I see a 66 plate car driving around in August?

[MissChief]

The Ryder Cup. Players get no appearance money, but sponsors and TV pay a fortune to show it. Where does those hundreds of millions go?

[Jimmyarm]

Takeaways.

We live in one of about 15 houses on a long main road. Putting the postcode in takes you to about the middle of the road.

Dominos/pizzahut know exactly where the house is but every other takeaway need directions.

What do dominos etc use that is much more accurate ?

[talksthetorque]

1. They bother to put your house number in
2. You are Powerfully built and they remember from last night.

[snotrag]

Rostfritt said:

kowalski655 said:

Willy Nilly said:

Number plates:

I know that the first 2 letters are an area code, the second 2 are age related, so the 3rd 3, are the random or consecutive? Is you have AB66CDE, would the next vehicle registered at that office be AB66CDF?

I believe so, that's why dealers will often have cars with consecutive, or near consecutive plates at new plate time

I have seen fleet cars like this, so I would assume so. I have noticed that my Dad's car has a plate that has the last two letters quite close, which means they were registered in the same area shortly after. They are completely different cars though.

Another question. Why did I see a 66 plate car driving around in August?

Yep. I work for a low volume vehicle manufacturer. When a customer buys a batch of vehicles they are registered XX66AAA, XX66AAB, XX66AAC, etc, In the order in which they were IVA'd and registered.

[Pacman1978]

I've always wondered if a footballer who receives a fine by the F.A. has to pay up? Can he stick two fingers up to them? Would it be docked from his pay? Can they be paid by instalment? What consequences would he face for non payment?

:-)

[Shakermaker]

Pacman1978 said:

I've always wondered if a footballer who receives a fine by the F.A. has to pay up? Can he stick two fingers up to them? Would it be docked from his pay? Can they be paid by instalment? What consequences would he face for non payment?

:-)

In the extreme, they could be banned from playing if they don't pay their fines.

[Pacman1978]

Shakermaker said:

In the extreme, they could be banned from playing if they don't pay their fines.

So the fines aren't deducted automatically then? Who benefits from monies raised?

[Dr Jekyll]

If you come across someone who has dropped down dead, do you call the ambulance just to say 'yup, he's gone' or the police? How do you decide someone is beyond help without some clue like a missing head?

[SpeckledJim]

Dr Jekyll said:

If you come across someone who has dropped down dead, do you call the ambulance just to say 'yup, he's gone' or the police? How do you decide someone is beyond help without some clue like a missing head?

If it is me you find, I would like the ambulance please. Just in case.

[Dr Jekyll]

SpeckledJim said:

Dr Jekyll said:

If you come across someone who has dropped down dead, do you call the ambulance just to say 'yup, he's gone' or the police? How do you decide someone is beyond help without some clue like a missing head?

If it is me you find, I would like the ambulance please. Just in case.

I'd probably call the ambulance to be on the safe side for anyone healthier than the Piltdown man, but I would still feel a bit guilty about wasting their time if someone had gone cold or stiff for example.

[northwest monkey]

Dr Jekyll said:

If you come across someone who has dropped down dead, do you call the ambulance just to say 'yup, he's gone' or the police? How do you decide someone is beyond help without some clue like a missing head?

My Father in Law died a couple of years ago at home (he had cancer and COPD) and when he passed away I phoned his doctor to let her know. She came round a few hours later to confirm, and then another doctor went to the chapel of rest place the day after (to double check?) and I seem to remember he issued the death certificate. He'd already signed a DNR form so there was no need to call anyone else.

[FlyingMeeces]

Dr Jekyll said:

If you come across someone who has dropped down dead, do you call the ambulance just to say 'yup, he's gone' or the police? How do you decide someone is beyond help without some clue like a missing head?

Ambulance, absolutely. Not least because some extremely dead looking people turn out either to not be dead, or to have the capacity to be an organ donor and save a load of lives.

Paramedics can 'pronounce life extinct' but unless the person is actually going runny or something, they'll give resuscitation a bloody good try. (This is also why it's so desperately important to have a current DNAR document actually physically with a terminally ill person at all times. Having it but leaving it at home renders it useless. There are various plans possible for what-if scenarios for people with fragile health, progressive conditions etc too eg using ventilator to help them over a chest infection is fine but if heart actually stops let it stay stopped…)

[s p a c e m a n]

Idle thought because I've just had a new electricity meter installed. The fitter informs me that it gets the time from the atomic radio clock signal thing to stop people tampering with it, can't you just make something that transmits a different time to it or would the piece of equipment needed cost a fortune?

[Dr Jekyll]

Why is that newspaper photographers taking pictures of people in hospital always want the patient to have their thumbs up? Who first decided on this convention? What would happen if the patient refused on the grounds of cliché avoidance?

[SilverSpur]

Dr Jekyll said:

Why is that newspaper photographers taking pictures of people in hospital always want the patient to have their thumbs up? Who first decided on this convention? What would happen if the patient refused on the grounds of cliché avoidance?

If you had just had a 10 inch long pink vibrator removed from your tradesmans entrance you'd be giving a thumbs-up....

[StevieBee]

Jimmyarm said:

Takeaways.

We live in one of about 15 houses on a long main road. Putting the postcode in takes you to about the middle of the road.

Dominos/pizzahut know exactly where the house is but every other takeaway need directions.

What do dominos etc use that is much more accurate ?

There are various databases that contain information including the name of residents (drawn from the electoral register). Commercial access to these databases is quite expensive so out of reach of your typical kebab house but well within the grasps of the international chains.

[SpeckledJim]

Shakermaker said:

Pacman1978 said:

I've always wondered if a footballer who receives a fine by the F.A. has to pay up? Can he stick two fingers up to them? Would it be docked from his pay? Can they be paid by instalment? What consequences would he face for non payment?

:-)

In the extreme, they could be banned from playing if they don't pay their fines.

But if push comes to shove, if the player is good enough, the club will pay it on their behalf.