Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
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berlintaxi said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Why are the toilets in DIY stores always in such dreadful condition. Bits missing, bits broken, stuff leaking. FFS, the stuff needed to fix it up to look presentable are on the damn shelves.
Where do you think plumbers source their parts?Funkycoldribena said:
There's been films and series about what the world would look like if Hitler had won the war but what would the world have looked like now if there had been no war?
Western Europe would have many Eastern European immigrants who had left their country for a better life - and France would be swinging to the far right. talksthetorque said:
Funkycoldribena said:
There's been films and series about what the world would look like if Hitler had won the war but what would the world have looked like now if there had been no war?
Western Europe would have many Eastern European immigrants who had left their country for a better life - and France would be swinging to the far right. talksthetorque said:
Funkycoldribena said:
There's been films and series about what the world would look like if Hitler had won the war but what would the world have looked like now if there had been no war?
Western Europe would have many Eastern European immigrants who had left their country for a better life - and France would be swinging to the far right. Cities would look a lot different as their historic centres would have survived, but whether the architects of the 60s would have destroyed them we don't know. There would also be a lot more Jews still alive along with more people in general.
To be fair, if there hadn't been Hitler there would probably have been another war at some other point, probably involving Russia trying to expand its influence to the west.
Rostfritt said:
The war did advance technology in many areas, so maybe we would be a bit behind, maybe no nuclear power as there would have been no nuclear weapon research. Also may have taken a long time to develop computers or jet engines. Society moved on in different ways too, women started doing a lot of jobs they couldn't have before, which spurred on a lot of women's liberation after the war.
I've often wondered what would have happened to fighter design. Would the notion of a fighter that was a monoplane with a retractable undercarriage but still had a propeller be regarded as a temporary expedient obsolete before it was fully developed and not really remembered because their brief heyday didn't coincide with a big war? Or would their heyday have stretched into the 1960s because jet development would have been slower?What is it about certain car paints that make them so much more expensive than other paints?
Watching Fast n Loud, they sent off a car for a '$30,000 paint job' which we then saw Mike, the usual paint guy, applying by mixing together various quantities of paint from his selection.
when usually, on say Wheeler Dealers, they respray a car for £4-5k.
I can't believe that it is all the cost of the labour, because they use Mike on FnL for all their paint work and it doesnt usually cost that much.
Watching Fast n Loud, they sent off a car for a '$30,000 paint job' which we then saw Mike, the usual paint guy, applying by mixing together various quantities of paint from his selection.
when usually, on say Wheeler Dealers, they respray a car for £4-5k.
I can't believe that it is all the cost of the labour, because they use Mike on FnL for all their paint work and it doesnt usually cost that much.
Shakermaker said:
What is it about certain car paints that make them so much more expensive than other paints?
Watching Fast n Loud, they sent off a car for a '$30,000 paint job' which we then saw Mike, the usual paint guy, applying by mixing together various quantities of paint from his selection.
when usually, on say Wheeler Dealers, they respray a car for £4-5k.
I can't believe that it is all the cost of the labour, because they use Mike on FnL for all their paint work and it doesnt usually cost that much.
There is a big labour difference between a decent respray and a show quality paint job. Fn'L is either a bit light on detail or perhaps Gas Monkey are a bit lacklustre - but if you watched 'American Hotrod' back in the 2000s you'd see how labour intensive it was - they'd usually start with a new body, but even that would have lots of filler added then sanded back till it was fractions of a mm think to make sure it was completely flat, then multiple layers of paint, sometimes different colours to produce certain looks and 'wet sanded' - as soon as the paint is dry they're at it with super fine sandpaper and water to remove any hint of 'orange peal' and then more coats of 'clear'. Watching Fast n Loud, they sent off a car for a '$30,000 paint job' which we then saw Mike, the usual paint guy, applying by mixing together various quantities of paint from his selection.
when usually, on say Wheeler Dealers, they respray a car for £4-5k.
I can't believe that it is all the cost of the labour, because they use Mike on FnL for all their paint work and it doesnt usually cost that much.
Also the paint is seriously expensive
http://www.houseofkolor.com/kolors/
Wheeler Dealers is more 'everyday' - production paint and little body work, I'm sure it's still good - same or slightly better than new, but it's not show quality.
Funkycoldribena said:
Dr Jekyll said:
I've often wondered what would have happened to fighter design. Would the notion of a fighter that was a monoplane with a retractable undercarriage but still had a propeller be regarded as a temporary expedient obsolete before it was fully developed and not really remembered because their brief heyday didn't coincide with a big war? Or would their heyday have stretched into the 1960s because jet development would have been slower?
Im guessing the latter.P-Jay said:
Shakermaker said:
What is it about certain car paints that make them so much more expensive than other paints?
Watching Fast n Loud, they sent off a car for a '$30,000 paint job' which we then saw Mike, the usual paint guy, applying by mixing together various quantities of paint from his selection.
when usually, on say Wheeler Dealers, they respray a car for £4-5k.
I can't believe that it is all the cost of the labour, because they use Mike on FnL for all their paint work and it doesnt usually cost that much.
There is a big labour difference between a decent respray and a show quality paint job. Fn'L is either a bit light on detail or perhaps Gas Monkey are a bit lacklustre - but if you watched 'American Hotrod' back in the 2000s you'd see how labour intensive it was - they'd usually start with a new body, but even that would have lots of filler added then sanded back till it was fractions of a mm think to make sure it was completely flat, then multiple layers of paint, sometimes different colours to produce certain looks and 'wet sanded' - as soon as the paint is dry they're at it with super fine sandpaper and water to remove any hint of 'orange peal' and then more coats of 'clear'. Watching Fast n Loud, they sent off a car for a '$30,000 paint job' which we then saw Mike, the usual paint guy, applying by mixing together various quantities of paint from his selection.
when usually, on say Wheeler Dealers, they respray a car for £4-5k.
I can't believe that it is all the cost of the labour, because they use Mike on FnL for all their paint work and it doesnt usually cost that much.
Also the paint is seriously expensive
http://www.houseofkolor.com/kolors/
Wheeler Dealers is more 'everyday' - production paint and little body work, I'm sure it's still good - same or slightly better than new, but it's not show quality.
Shakermaker said:
P-Jay said:
Shakermaker said:
What is it about certain car paints that make them so much more expensive than other paints?
Watching Fast n Loud, they sent off a car for a '$30,000 paint job' which we then saw Mike, the usual paint guy, applying by mixing together various quantities of paint from his selection.
when usually, on say Wheeler Dealers, they respray a car for £4-5k.
I can't believe that it is all the cost of the labour, because they use Mike on FnL for all their paint work and it doesnt usually cost that much.
There is a big labour difference between a decent respray and a show quality paint job. Fn'L is either a bit light on detail or perhaps Gas Monkey are a bit lacklustre - but if you watched 'American Hotrod' back in the 2000s you'd see how labour intensive it was - they'd usually start with a new body, but even that would have lots of filler added then sanded back till it was fractions of a mm think to make sure it was completely flat, then multiple layers of paint, sometimes different colours to produce certain looks and 'wet sanded' - as soon as the paint is dry they're at it with super fine sandpaper and water to remove any hint of 'orange peal' and then more coats of 'clear'. Watching Fast n Loud, they sent off a car for a '$30,000 paint job' which we then saw Mike, the usual paint guy, applying by mixing together various quantities of paint from his selection.
when usually, on say Wheeler Dealers, they respray a car for £4-5k.
I can't believe that it is all the cost of the labour, because they use Mike on FnL for all their paint work and it doesnt usually cost that much.
Also the paint is seriously expensive
http://www.houseofkolor.com/kolors/
Wheeler Dealers is more 'everyday' - production paint and little body work, I'm sure it's still good - same or slightly better than new, but it's not show quality.
Misfit Garage still sub out their paint jobs - I don't pretend to understand why some cost $10k and why some cost $20k but they do. They always want 6-12 weeks to do it, so there's a lot of labour involved.
Shakermaker said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Why do car leasing deals have a deposit? Why not just 24/36/48 equal payments?
To make the deal sound more attractive, surely?"Wow, only £150 a month? I can afford that!" (with a deposit of £3000) sounds a lot better than "Wow, only £250 a month!" to many mpeople
All to keep that magical monthly figure as low as poss.
Nezquick said:
Here's a question for you:
If someone is born blind, do they dream? And if they do, what do they dream of and how?
I've had, and can remember, dreams which were only sound and sensation with no visuals - imagine that the tiny number of people who are born with absolutely no sight/light perception at all (pretty rare!) would have dreams with the same range of sensory input as they live their lives with. If someone is born blind, do they dream? And if they do, what do they dream of and how?
Ayahuasca said:
Is it right to leave 'uncontacted' tribes in their remote stone-age isolation, where they are not protected by modern healthcare, laws or morality, or should they be brought into the modern world?
I can be the lessor of two evils. Being suddenly exposed to 'the modern world' kills more people than it helps - Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians almost wiped at times.Even with modern sensibilities, without being exposed to even minor (to us) diseases means they can be devastating to them.
P-Jay said:
I can be the lessor of two evils. Being suddenly exposed to 'the modern world' kills more people than it helps - Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians almost wiped at times.
Even with modern sensibilities, without being exposed to even minor (to us) diseases means they can be devastating to them.
I think I'd rather have smallpox than facebook.Even with modern sensibilities, without being exposed to even minor (to us) diseases means they can be devastating to them.
Edited by br d on Friday 10th February 21:54
Ayahuasca said:
Is it right to leave 'uncontacted' tribes in their remote stone-age isolation, where they are not protected by modern healthcare, laws or morality, or should they be brought into the modern world?
Leaving them where they are protects them from modern healthcare. 10 minutes in a morning western hospital would see them exposed to many deadly bugs they currently do not encounter. Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff