Wing mirrors on cars

Dec 31, 2017 732 Replies

Ah, chip seal:

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Wonderful stuff. In this area they skip the rolling part and let normal traffic pack the gravel. Then in a week or two they come back and sweep up the piles of excess gravel. Sometimes.

Would that be the utterly useless like

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or something that sounds vaguely edible like:

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I've never had it but I think in the US it's the first version, obviously invented by women with too much time on their hands.

Like plum pudding? My mother made a variation of it for Christmas but she believed in truth in advertising and referred to it as 'suet pudding'. After going through a couple of helpings a guest asked her for the recipe. When she started with 'A couple pounds of beef suet' he turned green and excused himself.

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The second link has a better photo of the vehicle. I don't know if anyone has gotten naked but pedaling around town from microbrewery to microbrewery on a warm summer evening can get a little rowdy.

"We won't go there" is as big a lie as "no comment".

My current car has a 50 litre tank and takes about a minute to fill. How many litres did your SUV take? Why are you so impatient? Why don't they make the pump run faster?

I wonder how many windscreens are chipped by flying stones.

Neither of those makes me want to eat.

I've never owned a SUV and my current car has a 42 liter tank. The smaller SUVs are twice that with some like the Ford Expedition EL going out to 135 liters.

By law the pumps can't exceed 38 liters per minute although most seem to run quite a bit slower.

A lot. In the warmer months chip repair operations even set up in parking lots and DIY kits are popular. The chip sealed roads are worse than those that are completely unpaved. It may be the binder makes it easier for the gravel to cling to the tire long enough to get hurled through the air.

Why don't you plonk me instead of everyone who replies to me? You really are the thickest person in this group.

I wonder how straight it travels by the end of the day?

135 litres, 38 a minute, so only a few minutes. Wait till you get electric cars....

The driver does not drink, just the people pedaling.

There is also a mobile brick oven pizza operation that was pedal powered. It still has vestigial pedals but I think they tow it around now. Moving a large brick oven shaped like a clove of garlic around town with four people pedaling didn't work out well.

The pizza is pretty good but the crusts look like one of those late night drunken endeavors to create a pizza where it winds up looking like a map of the UK.

I'm not holding my breath. With the low population density and long distances between towns this state isn't likely to be among the early adopters.

The silliest drunken thing I heard about was someone who had computer problems. The game wasn't running properly, and he determined it was the motherboard at fault. He removed it, ran it through a cycle in the dishwasher to clean out any problems, then dried it in the microwave. Apparently it refused to boot at all after that.

With the current stupidly long charging times they're useless everywhere at the moment. I can recharge AA batteries in 8 minutes with adequate cooling (and Uniross make a commercially available 15 minute charger), so there's no reason they can't do the same with cars.

You'd like my gingerbread house

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I've heard that can work with keyboards...

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