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Jun 2016
11:06am, 3 Jun 2016
848 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
(TRO - did you write that down? 😳)
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Jun 2016
11:10am, 3 Jun 2016
3,787 posts
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Doctor K
The horn or rather the "audible warning instrument" should be used to warn other road users of your presence -and not as a means of anger or protest. They haven't grasped that in New York or Rome yet though.
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Jun 2016
11:11am, 3 Jun 2016
12,100 posts
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Wriggling Snake
sorry, something has been bothering me for an hour or so, there is a mistake back a couple of pages, linking litres (voulme) (3 dimensions) and squared metres, which is area, 2 dimentions.
It should be litres and cubic metres.....
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Jun 2016
11:16am, 3 Jun 2016
7,414 posts
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Badger
I think you've misunderstood the conversation. Neither Chris nor I equated litres with area.
We were talking about how you can describe rainfall as the number of litres of water that fall on an area of ground of one square metre (so that's volume divided by area, giving a value with dimensions length) or as the depth of water in mm gathered in a raingauge (which again has dimensions length); the two numbers are equal in value and dimension.
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Jun 2016
11:20am, 3 Jun 2016
11,811 posts
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Dvorak
Me, attempting bike maintenance. Currently, changing a gear inner. I've had to come in to see if there are pictures showing if the knobbly bit is meant to slot in anywhere. (Still, I found out more about the cable adjuster when it fell off.)
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Jun 2016
11:22am, 3 Jun 2016
7,415 posts
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Badger
[Good luck. Last time I changed a gear cable I ended up having to hacksaw the old twist grip off the bike and replace it with a new one, because the clown who'd installed it had tightened the bolt so hard it bent the internal frame of the changer and the new cable wouldn't go in.]
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Jun 2016
11:33am, 3 Jun 2016
14,227 posts
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The Teaboy
I agree in general with horn use. However, when some dozy muppet changes lanes without signalling or using mirrors on a roundabout and cuts right across my nose so I have to almost emergency stop to avoid a collision, then what other recourse does one have than a blast on the horn.
And if you leave promptly, you still meet donks on the road. Just those who also left 5 minutes earlier. For the record, I may not even be one of the faster drivers. I just think we all need to co-exist. And I let faster drivers past me. IT'S NOT FCUKING DIFFICULT
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Jun 2016
1:39pm, 3 Jun 2016
5,652 posts
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paul the builder
The *worst* driving offence (IMHO) is the one where someone is sitting parked on the hard shoulder of a motorway, and then you see the indicator come on (uh-oh). They sit, and wait for a gap in the 60mph+ traffic. They spot one, or what they think is close enough AND THEN THEY JUST PULL OUT ON TO A FECKING MOTORWAY.
Use the hard shoulder to accelerate up to 60mph, like you're supposed to. Then merge.
Bloody lethal.
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Jun 2016
3:45pm, 3 Jun 2016
171 posts
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FergusG
Waiting needlessly at roundabouts for people who don't indicate that they're going to exit before they'd otherwise cross my path.
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Jun 2016
4:04pm, 3 Jun 2016
9,902 posts
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Carpathius
+1.
People who exit roundabouts while still signalling right.
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