Cyclists waste petrol

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Why do you have such complicated terms for your coins? Ours are just ca= lled by their value - 20p, 50p, etc.

And I don't think we've had coins made of anything anywhere near the coi= n's value for a long time. Although they did recently (without announci= ng it) change the 10p coin to one that was slightly thinner/thicker (I f= orget which) and a different metal to save money. This played havoc wit= h machines that take them.

It particularly annoys me as I have a coin counter that sorts the coins = and creates a "bank bag" (as in a particular amount - 20 x =A31 etc that= the bank likes paid in at once) of coins in each tube, simply by the to= tal thickness of the pile. With the new 10ps it gets it wrong each time= , so I just grumble at the bank teller when she says I've given her the = wrong amount. I can adjust it for the new coins, but a the moment we ha= ve some of each.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

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.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

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

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

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

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

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

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

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.

[rbowman]

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.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

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

[rbowman]

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 shit 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.

[Rod Speed]

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

You are.

[Rod Speed]

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

[rbowman]

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.

[Rod Speed]

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

[rbowman]

Ah, the washboard road technique...

[rbowman]

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

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

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.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

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 shit themselves.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

They're not the brightest of animals.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

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

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Yet all cars rust. After the warranty period though.

Ner ner ner ner ner!