Continental europe having problems with 50Hz

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Maybe people are targeting you for some reason. Try to be nicer.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Shows how much you know. Both vehicles stolen and not recovered near here were new and very expensive.

[dennis]

And take the tools to get to the intake and past the filter.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Every car I've had the filter just unclips with your fingers.

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I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plum= bers, and a bartender.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Fire your police chief.

[Chris Green]

In France they actually have a little sign asking you to lay bottles down on the belt.

[Roger Hayter]

Actually it is kinda funny to put milk or bottles of vodka upright then laugh when the supermarket has to replace them for free.

I expect they sometimes wish the mentally subnormal had minders to tell them to put glass bottles on their sides.

[Roger Hayter]

In the UK we don't generally need to point it out.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

So they roll into the next person's food. Why not just make the motor work properly? This is the 21st century.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

They have that in one here, Aldi I think. I ignore it. If they can't design their conveyor properly, that's their problem. Lying them down makes them take up three times the space. A soft start controller would cost f*ck all.

[Roger Hayter]

Peeler

[Bob Eager]

And in the UK.

[Steve Walker]

The trouble is that if you are shopping for a party and have a number of bottles, plus food, laying the bottles down means that the belt ends up full and you can't fit all of your shopping on, yet you need to be at the other end packing things away!

SteveW

[Dave Plowman (News)]

If you pack things tight on the belt, the bottles won't fall over.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Bad design. The supermarket is in the wrong, they can't even fit a soft start to their motor. Fuck them. Stand everything up and let it fall down, if you haven't paid for it yet it's their problem.

[Steve Walker]

I know. That's why I ignore the signs to lay the bottles flat :)

SteveW

[Roger Hayter]

Peeler

I shall wear the badge with pride. Do you think you might be obsessed?

[Chris J Dixon]

I can't give you chapter and verse, but I think you are about right there.

If you want to delve a little deeper into the whole subject, this can be a good starting point.

Chris

[Johnny B Good]

Aha! An excellent reason to bow to the inevitable then. :-)

[NY]

What were the reasons for the UK having its own grid, with a *DC* connection to mainland Europe? Was it just that the UK wasn't part of Europe at the time, or was there another more technical, less political reason?