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On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:52:40 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:11:11 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:06:11 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 03:46:57 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 10/02/2018 04:42 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:37:49 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 11:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Yes. Generally called spark plug wires in this country. They may be a thing of the past. My Toyota doesn't have any but I don't know how common that is. It will, but they're concealed in one tube. No concealment on the Toyota. It has Coil-on-Plug ignition. https://troubleshootmyvehicle.com/to...nition-coils-1 Why do they tend to put the coils on the plugs now instead of having one big coil? The last car I inspected may have had that, I'm not sure, all I know is there was a bar that clipped over all the plugs, with one thick wire leading to it. It eliminates the moving parts of the distributor and the high tension wires. Even without the old mechanical points, that is still a couple of areas of potential failure. The ECU is capable of delivering a timed pulse. The trouble is when the ECU goes wrong all hell breaks loose. It doesn't go wrong with the well designed ones. My current (French - as in ****ty electrics) car failed the annual safety test because it was reporting a failure of the antilock brakes. Luckily I use a garage where the mechanics have common sense. The computer reported a fault, but refused to specify what part was broken, so he just passed it anyway. Cars get bumped about, we can't build computers that can withstand that. Corse we can and do. No one I know has ever had any computer failure in their car. Everyone I know has. Don't believe that. No one here has reported having one fail. Well they all fail here, from every manufacturer. |
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:51:19 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:20:34 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 21:50:14 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:24:59 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:03:11 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:19:23 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 02:49:56 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/29/2018 03:46 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: We have 1,2,5,10,20,50,100,200 pence coins. They're all equally used. Why use two 25 cent coins when you can use a 50? No idea. Almost all the coin trays have 5 buckets but the fifth is most often used to hold paper clips, rubber bands, or other small items. One explanation is the half dollar was the last of the coins to contain silver and when the silver prices went up they were hoarded and fell out of circulation. By the time the composite coins came out people had gotten away from using them. Chicken or egg, but most vending machines and the pay phones didn't take them. The US did have 2 and 3 cent pieces in the 1800's. There was the naive thought that a coin's bullion value should match its face value so there was some jockeying around. The nickel won the popularity contest. The 20 cent piece didn't last long either. That was a political move by the silver miners to have the government buy more silver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech The US has solved that problem. None of the coinage has real worth although you can make sort of a low grade zamak out of pennies. Illegally, of course. Why do you have such complicated terms for your coins? Ours are just called by their value - 20p, 50p, etc. Pity about the sovereign, crown, half crown, groat, shilling, sixpence, quid etc. None of those are used anymore apart form "quid" which is simply a synonym for "pound". There are still slang terms for your decimal coins and notes. Which aren't used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slang_...United_Kingdom The only slang term in use for a denomination is "quid". Wrong, as always. Which words do you believe we use commonly? You didn't say commonly. You said arent used. As in I hear them less often than once a year. Then you need to get out more. No, I just live in a civilised area without silly regional accents. |
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:50:24 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:23:20 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 21:49:00 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:22:13 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 23:56:23 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 23:32:27 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 04:25:50 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "rbowman" wrote in message ... On 10/02/2018 04:55 PM, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:27:05 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 05:45:16 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/09/2018 01:08 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: I really ****ed off a horserider once. I was driving a very old Range Rover automatic which had a conversion to LPG. It very often misfired, made loud bangs, and changed gear without warning. I managed to cause a small explosion and a loud revving of the engine just as I passed a horserider coming the other way along a narrow country road. The horse **** itself, and so did the rider. I did better than that... I was coming down a narrow road that went past a dude ranch on my Harley. Coming the other was was a herd of dudes on their docile refugees from a canning factory led by a genuine wild west cowboy. ****head's horse had a nervous breakdown while the guests' nags barely roused from their stupor. it doesn't take much to set them off. I've worked with horses enough to know most of them are a neurotic bundle of nerves. If the horse can't handle public roads, trailer it to a nice quiet horse trail someplace. Indeed. Horses on roads were fine, before the invention of the motor car. They weren't actually, lots got killed by them bolting etc. They're not the brightest of animals. They're actually quite a bit smarter than most, just a neurotic bundle of nerves. They basically evolved that way because they are prey to stuff like lions and tigers etc. At one time I worked on a Forest Service ranch that was the winter home for about 250 head of saddle and pack stock, both mules and horses. I preferred the mules. The only problem is a mule is smart enough to look out for number one while you can coax a horse into doing stupid things. otoh, most mules aren't afraid of a length of rope laying in the trail, running water, tree branches blowing in the wind, llamas, bicycles, elk, deer, shadows, or whatever else will trigger a horse. I've just been to this one again and was again reminded that quite a few of them were kept where they were wanted to be when not actually doing anything by just a line of white plastic cord keeping them from wandering around. That's surprising, I always see temporary electric fence. Not sure that would work very well with Clydesdales, they have very hairy legs. They operate at about 6000V, I guess it can spark through the fur. I doubt it. We did some field trials back in the late 60s and did use an electric fence to keep the sheep in the trial blocks. One of us used to have his dog with him all the time. The fence didn't stop the dog. Until one day after heavy rain, the dog tried to go thru the fence yet again. He never tried it again after that. So how come it gets through the much thicker wool of the sheep? It doesn't, it works on their noses and legs. Don't Clydesdales have noses? They don't get anywhere near an electric fence. Those horses are massive, the heads are well above humans. https://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/...ok_at_the.html Build a higher fence. No point when a single line of white plastic about 2mm thick works fine. Normally run about human waist height. Vastly cheaper and much easier to run out with temporary fences like at that field day. How can it work when not electric, but fails when it is? I didn't say that electric fails, but the thin wire used for temporary electric fences isnt as visible as the white plastic. Why are the animals so monumentally stupid as to not go through plain plastic? |
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:02:22 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 21:08:23 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 04:05:26 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 10/03/2018 04:45 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 23:38:38 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 03:49:03 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 10/02/2018 04:44 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:27:05 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 05:45:16 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/09/2018 01:08 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: I really ****ed off a horserider once. I was driving a very old Range Rover automatic which had a conversion to LPG. It very often misfired, made loud bangs, and changed gear without warning. I managed to cause a small explosion and a loud revving of the engine just as I passed a horserider coming the other way along a narrow country road. The horse **** itself, and so did the rider. I did better than that... I was coming down a narrow road that went past a dude ranch on my Harley. Coming the other was was a herd of dudes on their docile refugees from a canning factory led by a genuine wild west cowboy. ****head's horse had a nervous breakdown while the guests' nags barely roused from their stupor. it doesn't take much to set them off. I've worked with horses enough to know most of them are a neurotic bundle of nerves. If the horse can't handle public roads, trailer it to a nice quiet horse trail someplace. Indeed. Horses on roads were fine, before the invention of the motor car. They weren't actually, lots got killed by them bolting etc. They're not the brightest of animals. A common description around here is a cowboy is the third dumbest critter riding the second dumbest and chasing the first dumbest. I would agree with that statement. I wouldn't, sheep are a lot dumber than cattle. I'd say they were equally stupid. No, you can turn cattle out in the forest in the spring and expect to find most of them in the fall, minus the few that walk off cliffs etc. Try that with sheep and the first thing they will do is find something poisonous to eat. Then the survivors will find a fence line to pile up against and smother half of them. The remnant will then try to drown themselves in a creek. The hardy few survivors will get eaten by the bears, wolves, mountain lions, and coyotes. We do have wild bighorn sheep that can fend for themselves but centuries of breeding have dumbed down the domestic version. Besides, sheep are an excuse for blue heelers. Maybe they should let the stupid sheep all die off, Trouble is that with the current bred sheep, that is all of them. then the next generation will be more sensible. Fraid not when they are all dead. Then give up on the species altogether. But then I wouldn't be able to eat their legs roasted. Much prefer that to any other meat except steaks. Doesn't it all taste pretty much the same? "Tastes like chicken". Nope. Roast leg of lamb doesn't taste anything like chicken. Neither does a steak or pork. And much prefer their wool to synthetics too. I don't. Cotton is much more comfortable. It is for stuff like T shirts and shorts and jeans but wool is much better for sox and jumpers. |
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:48:40 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:26:17 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 21:52:42 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:20:02 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:05:25 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 23:06:34 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:24:35 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/26/2018 12:47 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: You currently have no dollar coin?! Effectively, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar...(United_States) I probably have one around here someplace. I thought I'd found it but it turned out to be a token for the carousel. We also have a two dollar bill. I've got one that I'm using as a bookmark. They never took off either. We do not have a three dollar bill, leading to the expression 'as queer as a three dollar bill'. There is a 50 cent coin, again rarely seen. It's redundant since you can make any sum with 1, 5, 10, and 25. We have 1,2,5,10,20,50,100,200 pence coins. They're all equally used. Why use two 25 cent coins when you can use a 50? Because that's what you happen to have, stupid. Doesn't make the 50 redundant. We use 50s all the time, in fact I'd say all coins are used equally. You'd be wrong about that last. Incorrect, in my line of work I receive coins all the time, and get equal numbers of all of them. Don't believe that last. It's true. Nope. Well I do. Don't believe that. You can refuse to believe if you wish, but I often get people giving me five 20p coins instead of a £1 coin, to get rid of them, So by definition, you get more 20p coins than £1 coins. No, because that happens probably about five times less often. presumably as the last few times they went to a shop they just took a £20 note with them, so they always come home with change. |
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:47:03 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:27:22 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 21:52:15 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:21:29 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:04:27 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:11:04 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 03:13:46 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/29/2018 03:48 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Finally, if you live in an RV you get to keep it. And modify it. Lot rent is quite a bit less than rental properties. I take it RV means campervan? Those depreciate way faster than houses. If you don't plan on selling it who cares? Besides, as you argued for automobiles, buy them used after they depreciate. Still a lot of repairs to do, like rust, and the engine of course. Aluminum doesn't rust. RV's also include trailers so there is no engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_vehicle My brother had a motorhome but he towed a Toyota yacht tender behind it. That's a very common practice so you have a vehicle smaller than a bus to drive around. With the trailer, you can drop the trailer and you have the tow vehicle for driving around. There are quite a few full-time RVers in the US. Some are retirees, others are younger and find employment as they go. https://www.outsideonline.com/185778...re-you-park-it When I hit the road it was in a pickup similar to the 3rd photo, rather than a van or some of the pickups with larger camper shells. It was inconspicuous and could go anyplace. I wandered around the western US for a year, going to Arizona for the winter months, and then spent a year as a Forest Service volunteer. It's an interesting life; you learn to travel light and improvise. I don't understand why they're still using steel on any vehicle, Because its much cheaper than the alternatives and isnt hard to treat so it doesn't rust. Yet all cars rust. After the warranty period though. No rust on my Getz and it's a long way out of warranty now. But you live in a huge desert compared to the soggy island I'm stuck on. You'll find no rust on the 12 year old Getzs you find there too. I have rust on my 16 year old Renault. Because its just another frog steaming turd with wheels. Although to be fair it's not significant. Why did it take them until now to work out how to stop steel rusting? It didn't, they previously chose not to bother. Cars used to rust after 5 years. My 69 beetle didn't. Neither did the 73 Golf. My 98 Golf rusted to the point that it wasn't worth repairing for the annual safety test. That was about 5 years ago. Bet you wont find any Getz like that there. **** all Getzs here. Irrelevant to whether they are rusty or not. I've probably seen one every few months, so I can't check. They're mainly i10, i20, i30. |
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:46:29 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:28:48 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 21:42:09 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:25:59 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:02:06 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:20:34 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 02:11:54 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/29/2018 03:41 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Cost to the customer should dictate ones further away will be less likely to be bought, so I guess they were different carpets. Presumably. They were all 12' rolls so I never saw the working side. Furniture was the same deal. There still are furniture factories in the south eastern US while most of the furniture I loaded on the west coast was from Asia. Other products weren't so easy to rationalize. I don't know about the UK but the Sunday papers (when people still read the Sunday papers) have a lot of colorful advertising brochures and other crap that most people strip out and use to wrap garbage. I picked up a lot of those in Boulder CO to take to Baltimore MD, which is about 1600 miles. Nobody on the east coast can print useless stuff? The whole scheme depends on cheap transportation / cheap fuel. Keep those container ships and trucks rolling! If your government put as much fuel tax on it as ours did, that wouldn't be happening. It happens in Britain and the EU too. Britain isn't big enough to travel very far. But the EU is. Most stuff I buy is made in the UK. Don't believe that with the food. It is, probably mainly because of our ****ed up government introducing "local foods" advertising for the treehuggers to save transporting things. All the supermarkets seem to be proud to show off that their food is locally grown. Pity about the stats that show that much of the food consumed on that soggy little frigid island is imported. I guess I only notice the silly stuff with the British flag on the wrapper. Likely that's just packed in Britain, not grown there. It claims it is, so unless they're lying.... The stats show that either your slum is very different the rest of the country or you are mistaken. https://sustainability.asda.com/local-sourcing "We’re committed to working with local suppliers. This means we can support local communities while bringing you fresh and tasty products. Asda takes pride in providing good quality food for our customers. And we want to make sure that putting a healthy, great tasting meal on your family table doesn’t cost the earth. Our goal is to search out the best local products we can find for you. More local produce means we’re supporting more local businesses, and with fewer miles travelled." |
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:45:18 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:25:47 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 21:53:49 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:19:19 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:07:37 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 22:59:20 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:04:31 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "rbowman" wrote in message ... On 09/26/2018 09:02 PM, Rod Speed wrote: One of the chain self checkouts used to just dispense $20s here and I used that for that reason instead of an ATM but they have changed those now and they don't let you specify what you want, it works that out for you so you can still get $20s by specifying you want $40, but you get $50s if you say you want $50 or $100 etc. That chain has now closed their store in my town now so I have to use the other self checkouts. I'll have to pay more attention the next time. I think you can specify a number but the selection menu is in $20 increments. The max on the menu is $200, or sometimes $100 at the smaller kiosks in markets. I've got the feeling if you said you wanted $57 the machine would make impolite remarks. Maybe not, since the self service checkouts can make change with smaller bills. I never thought about it. I just grab $200 and go. Yeah, I'm about to try them all now because I have always preferred to have $20 notes for the garage/yard sales. $50s can be a real hassle, particularly given that we show up at the garage/yard sales before anyone else and hardly any ensure that they have lots of change. I prefer to use the self checkouts rather than ATMs just because you don't normally have to queue for the self checkouts and there is no chance of a skimmer on the self checkout. You must have a lot of criminals over there. Most of those skimming ATMs are tourists. The problem doesn't exist here, Wrong, as always. https://www.google.com/search?q=atm+skimming+uk you're doing something wrong. Nope. Never happened to me or anyone I know, Never happened to me or anyone I know either. I guess it's not that common here. Either that or you're overly paranoid. Or I have enough of a clue to have noticed the tourists caught doing it. But if it's never happened to you or anyone you know, then it isn't widespread enough to worry about. Even sillier than you usually manage. What's silly about it? You've just admitted it's uncommon, yet your worry about it. I don't worry about it. I use self checkouts because I am much more likely to be able to walk up to one and use it and don't have to queue while some clown fumbles around at the ATM. You said "I prefer to use the self checkouts rather than ATMs just because you don't normally have to queue for the self checkouts and ****there is no chance of a skimmer on the self checkout****" The last is just a bonus, not something I worry about. No queues for ATMs here. |
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 23:07:10 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:02:22 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 21:08:23 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 04:05:26 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 10/03/2018 04:45 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 23:38:38 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 03:49:03 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 10/02/2018 04:44 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:27:05 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 05:45:16 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/09/2018 01:08 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: I really ****ed off a horserider once. I was driving a very old Range Rover automatic which had a conversion to LPG. It very often misfired, made loud bangs, and changed gear without warning. I managed to cause a small explosion and a loud revving of the engine just as I passed a horserider coming the other way along a narrow country road. The horse **** itself, and so did the rider. I did better than that... I was coming down a narrow road that went past a dude ranch on my Harley. Coming the other was was a herd of dudes on their docile refugees from a canning factory led by a genuine wild west cowboy. ****head's horse had a nervous breakdown while the guests' nags barely roused from their stupor. it doesn't take much to set them off. I've worked with horses enough to know most of them are a neurotic bundle of nerves. If the horse can't handle public roads, trailer it to a nice quiet horse trail someplace. Indeed. Horses on roads were fine, before the invention of the motor car. They weren't actually, lots got killed by them bolting etc. They're not the brightest of animals. A common description around here is a cowboy is the third dumbest critter riding the second dumbest and chasing the first dumbest. I would agree with that statement. I wouldn't, sheep are a lot dumber than cattle. I'd say they were equally stupid. No, you can turn cattle out in the forest in the spring and expect to find most of them in the fall, minus the few that walk off cliffs etc. Try that with sheep and the first thing they will do is find something poisonous to eat. Then the survivors will find a fence line to pile up against and smother half of them. The remnant will then try to drown themselves in a creek. The hardy few survivors will get eaten by the bears, wolves, mountain lions, and coyotes. We do have wild bighorn sheep that can fend for themselves but centuries of breeding have dumbed down the domestic version. Besides, sheep are an excuse for blue heelers. Maybe they should let the stupid sheep all die off, Trouble is that with the current bred sheep, that is all of them. then the next generation will be more sensible. Fraid not when they are all dead. Then give up on the species altogether. But then I wouldn't be able to eat their legs roasted. Much prefer that to any other meat except steaks. Doesn't it all taste pretty much the same? "Tastes like chicken". Nope. Roast leg of lamb doesn't taste anything like chicken. Neither does a steak or pork. It all tastes like rotten food to me. And much prefer their wool to synthetics too. I don't. Cotton is much more comfortable. It is for stuff like T shirts and shorts and jeans but wool is much better for sox and jumpers. I prefer cotton socks and I don't wear jumpers. |
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:52:40 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:11:11 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:06:11 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 03:46:57 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 10/02/2018 04:42 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:37:49 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 11:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Yes. Generally called spark plug wires in this country. They may be a thing of the past. My Toyota doesn't have any but I don't know how common that is. It will, but they're concealed in one tube. No concealment on the Toyota. It has Coil-on-Plug ignition. https://troubleshootmyvehicle.com/to...nition-coils-1 Why do they tend to put the coils on the plugs now instead of having one big coil? The last car I inspected may have had that, I'm not sure, all I know is there was a bar that clipped over all the plugs, with one thick wire leading to it. It eliminates the moving parts of the distributor and the high tension wires. Even without the old mechanical points, that is still a couple of areas of potential failure. The ECU is capable of delivering a timed pulse. The trouble is when the ECU goes wrong all hell breaks loose. It doesn't go wrong with the well designed ones. My current (French - as in ****ty electrics) car failed the annual safety test because it was reporting a failure of the antilock brakes. Luckily I use a garage where the mechanics have common sense. The computer reported a fault, but refused to specify what part was broken, so he just passed it anyway. Cars get bumped about, we can't build computers that can withstand that. Corse we can and do. No one I know has ever had any computer failure in their car. Everyone I know has. Don't believe that. No one here has reported having one fail. Well they all fail here, from every manufacturer. Bull**** they do. |
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