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lowbrowman, Birdbrain's eternal senile whore!
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 21:34:06 -0600, lowbrowman, the endlessly driveling
senile idiot, blabbered again: Yet all cars rust. After the warranty period though. Only if you live in a swamp. Are you sure, senile? Senilely sure? BG |
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lowbrowman, Birdbrain's eternal senile whore!
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 21:16:23 -0600, lowbrowman, the endlessly driveling
senile idiot, blabbered again: FLUSH the never-ending senile drivel by the two resident seniles |
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Senile Ozzie Troll Alert!
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 13:25:50 +1000, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again: FLUSH another 100 lines of boring senile drivel -- Cursitor Doom about Rot Speed: "The man is a conspicuous and unashamed ignoramus." MID: |
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lowbrowman, Birdbrain's eternal senile whore!
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 20:49:03 -0600, lowbrowman, the endlessly driveling
senile idiot, blabbered again: 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. That was BEFORE the time mentally deficient losers like the three of you appeared on Usenet, senile lowbrowman! G |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On 10/3/18 11:44 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:31:33 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 10:01 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 02:47:15 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/10/2018 12:14 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: How many miles did you do in those 12 years?* What parts did you replace for servicing, predicting a failure might happen in the future?* I don't believe you didn't have to change any tyres, brakes, suspension parts, steering, hoses, etc. What the hell do you do to cars? Tires are expendable and don't count. I had to replace a brake hose and heater hose in my 32 year old pickup because a porpupine ate them. He also chewed at the upper radiator hose but it's still going strong, teeth marks and all. I ignore all speed limits and speedbumps and go as fast as I can without my car coming off the road. Ah, the washboard road technique... It's actually more comfortable to go over a speedbump fast than slow.* Fast hurts the suspension, slow hurts your back. It's also better to accelerate as you go over the bump, this lifts the front of the car up and lessens the jolt. It's also fun to overtake someone who goes slowly over bumps, when they see you bouncing past them they tend to **** themselves. It is much more comfortable to go over a speedbump on a bicycle. |
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lowbrowman, Birdbrain's eternal senile whore!
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 20:56:07 -0600, lowbrowman, the endlessly driveling
senile idiot, blabbered again: At one time I worked Oh, no! Another lengthy senile bull**** story! tsk |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On 10/02/2018 09:25 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
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. I watched one mule who had learned he could easily jump a barbed wire fence. He jumped in and out of the pasture several times like he was saying "Hey, guys, look, this is easy.". The rest weren't interested so he finally jumped back to join them. After all the hay was on that side of the fence. They also wore trails walking the perimeter looking for some place where the fence was down -- which meant I got to walk the perimeter with a spool of barbed wire, a stretcher, and a fencing tool periodically. The 25 Clydesdale team pulling the massive great wool wagon that you can see on the web site was pretty spectacular. Took a good hour to get them all harnessed up and connected to before dragging it around the main parade ground. They had the bullock team pulling another. Last year it was the biggest bullock team seen in the entire world this century which doesn't really prove all that much. When I lived in New Hampshire a big event at the fairs was pulling. The horse teams would come out with their fancy harnesses and prance around. Sometimes it was hard to get them hitched to the stone boat. After they were hitched, they'd pull it several feet, back up, and pull it further. The ox teams came out with their simple yokes and stood their placidly while they were hitched. Given the signal, they would pull the boat as far as they could with no drama. When they stopped, they were done. Again, no drama. They'd done all they could, no prancing and snorting. It wasn't a complete anachronism. People still were logging with teams. If you were selectively cutting a stand of timber for sustainability teams were much easier on the land. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On 10/02/2018 11:47 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
Ours are low enough so that trucks and vans can just drive of them, with a shallow curb so they don't even have to slow down to do that. The larger ones have a concrete apron for that purpose. The tiny ones were constructed without thinking that something like a moving van might need to navigate them. Many drivers haven't figured out how they work yet. We have many four way stops where people take turns in an orderly fashion. They tend to take roundabouts the same, stopping before entering even if the way is clear, which defeats the purpose. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
"rbowman" wrote in message ... On 10/02/2018 09:25 PM, Rod Speed wrote: 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. I watched one mule who had learned he could easily jump a barbed wire fence. He jumped in and out of the pasture several times like he was saying "Hey, guys, look, this is easy.". The rest weren't interested so he finally jumped back to join them. After all the hay was on that side of the fence. They also wore trails walking the perimeter looking for some place where the fence was down -- which meant I got to walk the perimeter with a spool of barbed wire, a stretcher, and a fencing tool periodically. The 25 Clydesdale team pulling the massive great wool wagon that you can see on the web site was pretty spectacular. Took a good hour to get them all harnessed up and connected to before dragging it around the main parade ground. They had the bullock team pulling another. Last year it was the biggest bullock team seen in the entire world this century which doesn't really prove all that much. When I lived in New Hampshire a big event at the fairs was pulling. The horse teams would come out with their fancy harnesses and prance around. Sometimes it was hard to get them hitched to the stone boat. After they were hitched, they'd pull it several feet, back up, and pull it further. The ox teams came out with their simple yokes and stood their placidly while they were hitched. Given the signal, they would pull the boat as far as they could with no drama. When they stopped, they were done. Again, no drama. They'd done all they could, no prancing and snorting. Ours were rather different. It was in fact the bullock team that saw at least one of them a bit stroppy and had to be whipped back into line at times. The horses in the 25 horse team were all Clydesdales and none of them were at all flighty. Even when there was a really ancient IC tractor pulling a line of Furphys which were making a hell of a screeching racket with their very primitive axels. I thought that might faze the 25 horse team but in fact they didn't turn a hair at it. https://www.furphyfoundry.com.au/ima...History/05.jpg It wasn't a complete anachronism. People still were logging with teams. If you were selectively cutting a stand of timber for sustainability teams were much easier on the land. That's never done here for some reason. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
rbowman wrote
Rod Speed wrote Ours are low enough so that trucks and vans can just drive over them, with a shallow curb so they don't even have to slow down to do that. The larger ones have a concrete apron for that purpose. The tiny ones were constructed without thinking that something like a moving van might need to navigate them. Ours are fine for that, those and semis can drive right over them as if they arent there. There is nothing but concrete in the middle. Can't actually find a street view of one, our street view is 8 years old now. Many drivers haven't figured out how they work yet. We have many four way stops where people take turns in an orderly fashion. We don't have any of those, one of the two roads at that intersection always has giveway signs on one of the roads. They tend to take roundabouts the same, stopping before entering even if the way is clear, which defeats the purpose. We don't see that at all, presumably because we don't have any intersections which don't have giveways on one road. |
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