Stupid things non petrolheads say....

Stupid things non petrolheads say....

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CYMR0

3,940 posts

199 months

Tuesday 25th November 2014
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smithyithy said:
Silverbullet767 said:
According to the brake story I just made up, it's increased 4000% last year alone. Anyone overtaking anything, including parked cars instantly exploded in a fireball taking out the nearest child holding a puppy. I don't go out anymore. Far too dangerous.
Is their a completely literally accurate Facebook post I can share regarding this to let everyone know it's serious business?!
+5 for "is their."
-5 for correct use of an apostrophe.

thismonkeyhere

10,296 posts

230 months

Wednesday 26th November 2014
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Silverbullet767 said:
According to the brake story I just made up, it's increased 4000% last year alone. Anyone overtaking anything, including parked cars instantly exploded in a fireball taking out the nearest child holding a puppy. I don't go out anymore. Far too dangerous.
hehe

smithyithy

7,192 posts

117 months

Wednesday 26th November 2014
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CYMR0 said:
+5 for "is their."
-5 for correct use of an apostrophe.
I was 8 minutes from clocking off time, spelling and grammar can do one at that time of the day laugh

sebhaque

6,402 posts

180 months

Wednesday 26th November 2014
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"A 1999? That's so old!"
In reference to an F355. Said individual thinks all cars older than ~5 years are worthless. Turned their nose up at my then-seven year old 911 because it was older than their four year old base spec Golf diesel (last year).

Appreciate a few folks didn't understand my previous message regarding the Fiat 500. It's not exactly a rare car and at the price of the car (relatively high compared to the rest of the market), I'd rather my sister buy from someone who could justify the high price as opposed to someone who just selected a monetary figure and couldn't back up their claims of "enthusiast owned". As it turns out my sister decided to hang on to her old car and spend the money on a holiday anyway.

VladD

7,853 posts

264 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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smithyithy said:
CYMR0 said:
+5 for "is their."
-5 for correct use of an apostrophe.
I was 8 minutes from clocking off time. Spelling and grammar can do one at that time of the day. laugh
EFA biggrin

xRIEx

8,180 posts

147 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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VladD said:
smithyithy said:
CYMR0 said:
+5 for "is their."
-5 for correct use of an apostrophe.
I was 8 minutes from clocking off time; spelling and grammar can do one at that time of the day. laugh
EFA biggrin
Further EFA.

VladD

7,853 posts

264 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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xRIEx said:
VladD said:
smithyithy said:
CYMR0 said:
+5 for "is their."
-5 for correct use of an apostrophe.
I was 8 minutes from clocking off time; spelling and grammar can do one at that time of the day. laugh
EFA biggrin
Further EFA.
Technically it should be E.F.A., but that could be going too far.

xRIEx

8,180 posts

147 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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VladD said:
Technically it should be E.F.A., but that could be going too far.
Initialisms are acceptable without abbreviation marks, but we've already taken this far too far hehe

walm

10,609 posts

201 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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xRIEx said:
VladD said:
Technically it should be E.F.A., but that could be going too far.
Initialisms are acceptable without abbreviation marks, but we've already taken this far too far hehe
Well every day is a school day - I thought you had made up the word "initialism" but instead TIL the difference between an initialism and an acronym. Thanks!
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/th...

StottyEvo

6,860 posts

162 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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shoestring7 said:
over_the_hill said:
Tyre Tread said:
TommoAE86 said:
Hasn't this thread lived up to it's name? Seeing as all the non-petrolheads are now talking about food?

Today I had;

them: "but that car you're looking at says it has no ABS"
me: "it's an old car, it's unlikely to have it, it's not a problem"
them: "oh I'd always have a car with ABS, I couldn't do without it"
me: "are you always emergency braking then?"
them: "no, ABS means you stop quicker"
me: "I'm sorry, you're too stupid to continue this conversation"
Edited to be comprehensible.
It would be a complete waste of time because it always is but ask why/how ABS stops you quicker. Could be amusing to hear the replies but it will be along the lines of "they are better brakes"

It is amazing how many people do not know what ABS is or how it works.

In some circumstances non-ABS will stop you quicker e.g. lock-up in snow and the snow builds up like a chock in front of the wheel.
Modern ABS systems with ABD can stop cars faster than a good driver as they can hold each wheel individually to optimum slips levels.

SS7

Edited by shoestring7 on Thursday 6th November 13:03
I was just thinking that hehe

Last week I'd say ABS saved me (for the first time since I began driving) I had my foot as hard as possible on the brake and then had to take a corner with a stop sign at the end of it, whilst full on the brake the entire time. I'm pretty sure that if I didn't have ABS it could've been messy. Great invention!

xRIEx

8,180 posts

147 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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walm said:
TIL
ISWYDT wink


Glad you learned something; I always aim to educate and (more so) myself be educated thumbup

masermartin

1,629 posts

176 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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smithyithy said:
This is exactly what I'm noticing more these days. The 'too cool for the rules' attitude.

It's like in school again where kids would 'rebel' by having their shirt untucked, or a couple of buttons undone - 'I'm not tucking my shirt in, I ain't a loser'..

Clearly those people have got older but not matured past it, now they don't indicate on / off roundabouts, don't Mirror Signal Maneuver, all because they're too cool to follow the rules rolleyes
Trouble is, it's not "haha, look what I got away with at school today" any more, it's "haha, look how much of a complete dick I got away with being on the roads today".

Not having lights on bikes, not indicating going right at roundabouts (when going left it's annoying but going right makes me madfurious ), reversing up sliproads when they've gone the wrong way ...

Hooli

32,278 posts

199 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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blueg33 said:
Utterpiffle said:
thatdude said:
To add to this, a weekly shop of say, £150 for a normal family (4 people) comes to £600 per month, or 7,200 per year.

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Bloody hell, what do you buy?! We have budget of £50 per week for food (family of 3), very rarely spend all of it, and we eat very well...
Our weekly shop is £160. When 18 year old son went away for a month in the summer, the bill dropped by £50. We rarely buy stuff like steak and buy one bottle of wine per week, but Mrs can't have gluten. GF stuff is expensive. Also stuff like fairy non bio and dishwasher tablets are costly.
The bolded bit is your fault for having a mistress.

TA14

12,722 posts

257 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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Hooli said:
blueg33 said:
Our weekly shop is £160. When 18 year old son went away for a month in the summer, the bill dropped by £50. We rarely buy stuff like steak and buy one bottle of wine per week, but Mrs can't have gluten. GF stuff is expensive. Also stuff like fairy non bio and dishwasher tablets are costly.
The bolded bit is your fault for having a mistress.
Well spotted rofl

sebhaque

6,402 posts

180 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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Was listening to Radio 1 at about 9am, apparently Lewis Hamilton had been on earlier. The host was playing some quiz game but was discussing racing Lewis (on a game I expect) and the advice he had been given with the caller.

Host: "I was told to brake into the corner and accelerate out".
Caller: "What? That doesn't sound right. Why would you do that? He must be wrong."

Yes love, the 2014 F1 world champion is wrong about how to take a corner. She later said that she was engaged and the method of the proposal was not important, just "the price of the ring". I feel sorry for the poor bloke who proposed to her.

mikal83

5,340 posts

251 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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Thought Evans said he was on friday morning?

xRIEx

8,180 posts

147 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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mikal83 said:
Thought Evans said he was on friday morning?
Radio 1, not Radio 2.

I hope you know the difference between a number 1 and a number 2, you might be not be wiping when you should be. wink

blearyeyedboy

6,252 posts

178 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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Blearyeyedgirl asked me why our hire car had a volume switch for the horn. She was referring to the steering wheel mounted volume control.

In her defence, she's pretty switched on usually but had slept badly the night before. Coming from the simple controls of a Mk 5 Golf, she and I were pretty taken aback by the multitude of buttons in a new Vauxhall Astra. I suspect the Apollo rockets had fewer buttons in their cockpits; it's pretty cluttered in there.

ChemicalChaos

10,360 posts

159 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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Cylinder 8

45 posts

113 months

Sunday 7th December 2014
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ChemicalChaos said:
Oh dear.
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