Cyclists waste petrol

Round here they put them in the stupidest of places, for example 10 yard= s from a junction, where nobody could possibly be speeding anyway.

And apparently they cost =A310,000 each to install including paperwork.

I ignore all speed limits and speedbumps and go as fast as I can without my car coming off the road.

Can't they make them white? Why do they have to change between green, blue, yellow, orange, etc as you change the angle?

Indeed. Horses on roads were fine, before the invention of the motor car.

Not enough to overtake, but enough to change speed easily without annoying the engine. I can put my foot to the floor in top gear at 30mph, and it'll go up to 40 in a few seconds. Fine for town driving where there's usually some old codger or a woman (!) behind the wheel in front of me anyway.

It will, but they're concealed in one tube.

They are waiting to see how Ford makes out. One major difference is the F150 and SUVs based on the chassis still use a conventional steel frame. It doesn't matter what the body is made of.

Over here in nanny state Europe, those wouldn't be allowed on the road as they aren't nice to pedestrians when the f*****ts walk in front of you.

Said the person with bobs, tanners, quids, sovs, tuppence, nuggets, and beer tokens...

There is a whole market for 'junk silver' in the US. Those are pre-1965 coins with no particular numismatic value that did have silver in their composition. The theory is if the s*it hits the fan they will have exchange value as opposed to the post '65 coins that are intrinsically worthless.

About 10 years ago I sorted coins and put them into coin wrappers. When I took them to the bank I stood their while the teller dumped them out of the wrappers and took the pile to the back room to sort.

The supermarket has a coin sorter that I use when I accumulate a couple of buckets of coins. There is a charge if you want cash back but none if you get a gift card. There are several varieties of gift cards, but I go with Amazon. For that you don't get a physical card, just a code number that adds the balance to your Amazon account. The sorter works quite well and only spits out Canadian coins. Sometimes it will reject a US coin but generally takes it if you run it through again.

Because its much cheaper than the alternatives and isnt hard to treat so it doesn't rust.

You are.

Pity about the sovereign, crown, half crown, groat, shilling, sixpence, quid etc.

We have various 'traffic calming' schemes like roundabouts and bulbouts but speed bumps would really piss off the snowplow crews to say nothing of the cops.

Even some of the semi-private areas are getting rid of them. I hit one of the damn things on my bicycle. The sun was in my eyes and I didn't see it coming so I taco'd my front wheel and did a face plant. I was not happy.

They weren't actually, lots got killed by them bolting etc.

Ah, the washboard road technique...

No concealment on the Toyota. It has Coil-on-Plug ignition.

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'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 s*it themselves.

They're not the brightest of animals.

None of those are used anymore apart form "quid" which is simply a synonym for "pound".

Yet all cars rust. After the warranty period though.

Ner ner ner ner ner!