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Blue railway signals?
On 15/12/2018 22:27, Kristy Ogilvie wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:59:55 -0000, Rod Speed wrote: "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 07:06:28 -0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 15/12/2018 01:00, Kristy Ogilvie wrote: Since when were Northern European men decent?* :-) Since they put on clothes to keep the ice and snow out? So we're born indecent?* That doesn't make sense whether you believe in god or evolution. Wrong with evolution. Huh?* If we needed clothes we'd be born with them on. Why didn't we (Europeans) regrow our fur when we moved north? even our Neanderthal cousins didn't. -- Max Demian |
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Blue railway signals?
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 22:38:44 -0000, Max Demian wrote:
On 15/12/2018 22:27, Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:59:55 -0000, Rod Speed wrote: "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 07:06:28 -0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 15/12/2018 01:00, Kristy Ogilvie wrote: Since when were Northern European men decent? :-) Since they put on clothes to keep the ice and snow out? So we're born indecent? That doesn't make sense whether you believe in god or evolution. Wrong with evolution. Huh? If we needed clothes we'd be born with them on. Why didn't we (Europeans) regrow our fur when we moved north? even our Neanderthal cousins didn't. Because we don't need it. Try walking outside naked (or in shorts if you think you might be arrested). |
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Troll-feeding Senile IDIOT Alert!
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 22:38:44 +0000, Max Demian, an especially stupid,
notorious, troll-feeding, senile idiot, blathered Why didn't we (Europeans) regrow our fur when we moved north? even our Neanderthal cousins didn't. Yep, you DEFINITELY have become as retarded as the troll that you keep sucking off, senile idiot! LOL |
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Blue railway signals?
"Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:54:44 -0000, Rod Speed wrote: "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 11:02:40 -0000, Rod Speed wrote: "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:55:55 -0000, Rod Speed wrote: "Fred Johnson" wrote in message news On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:43:41 -0000, Rod Speed wrote: "Fred Johnson" wrote in message news On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:12:50 -0000, Rod Speed wrote: "Fred Johnson" wrote in message news On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:03:57 -0000, Mike Humphrey wrote: Fred Johnson wrote: Can anybody else remember blue traffic lights on railways? Can't find any evidence on google. I'm sure whereas cars have red/amber/green, railways always had a 4th blue light. What does it mean and why has it disappeared from Google? Railway signals in modern times have always had red, yellow (not amber) I've never been fussy enough to even notice the difference between yellow, amber, orange. I could tell the difference if they were side by side, but I just think of a road traffic light as either yellow or orange. I couldn't even tell you what amber colour is compared to yellow and orange. I don't do things like "mauve", etc. Just purple, light purple, etc. and green. A four-aspect signal has two yellows - the sequence approaching a stop signal goes G, YY, Y, R. There can be a number of other indications as well as the main signal but these are almost invariably white. I assume this is to allow trains the longer stopping distance they require than road vehicles. There's a number of uses for blue and purple, but not appearing with the R/Y/G "traffic light" signals, at least in the UK. I might be thinking of non "traffic light" signals, or I might be thinking of a light which was off and was just seeing the blue lens which had a yellow light behind to make green. If you want to look at the full range of signs and signals, http://www.railsigns.uk/ has a very comprehensive guide. That's a lot for a driver to remember! At least with road signs the symbol is meaningful. I wonder why the red is at the bottom on rail lights and the top on traffic lights? Basically because when there are two ways of doing something, you can be sure someone will do it both ways. Like my bloody French car which has the wiper switch going down to increase speed. And with light and power switches in houses etc. Down should always be on The yanks feel otherwise. The yanks don't think at all. I said feel, not think, stupid. But you meant think, Nope. or should have done. Nope. Deciding on a switch mechanism involve thinking, not emotions. Wrong, as always. Most designers use their head to design, not their hearts. Plenty just keep doing what they have always done with stuff like switches. Otherwise you end up with Apple products. How odd that they are in fact vastly more secure than android phones. (except two or more way switches of course). And then some bugger shows up who decides to do them sideways so there is no confusion at all, and we end up with 4 different ways of doing it instead of just 2. Never seen a sideways lightswitch in a house. But you do see it with power switches. Not here. There is completely irrelevant. We are the centre of the world. The cesspit of the world, actually. True. But we still made you and the USA. Most countries were colonised by us, Only in your pathetic little drug crazed drunken psychotic fantasyland. Or in the history books. You need a new one. we have the 0 GMT point, Whoopy ****ing do. There must be a reason we have it. Yep, you thought of it first. And didn't with the metric system. we invented the language most people use, etc. Nope, it evolved. From here. Nope. They're similar to light switches, although more rugged as they switch a higher current. Anyway with automatic ones, there are no switches. There are in mine. A couple of mine have manual overrides, my bedroom for example is normally on a 15 second timer, so it goes off just after I get into bed, but sometimes I press the switch to leave it on if I'm doing something else in there. And don't go inserting rude things! Nothing rude about ****ing, wanking or even changing the sheets or untangling the blankets or cleaning up after you have ****ed the bed again. If you were closer I'd spank you for saying those things. Only in your pathetic little drug crazed drunken psychotic S&M fantasyland. What's crazy about wanting to inflict pain? But most of them are auto only. None of mine are. I don't see the point in manual override in most rooms. I didn't say manual. You said yours all have switches. No I didn't. What is a switch for but for manual override? There isnt even a single manual switch anywhere. I can always make them come on when it's light by covering the sensor momentarily. Me too. I'm surprised so few people have auto lights. Yeah, me too. Only one of mine isnt, and I was thinking the other day that I really should have that one auto too. Tricky tho for the main seat I compute from, I'd need one that auto turns it on when leaving the bedroom in the dark as I almost always do even in summer and another closer to keep it on while its dark. Not sure what you mean. I've only got more than one in this room, as it's a large room and I need them to see me coming in from different entrances, and also see me only moving slightly in front of the computer. And they arent cheap at $50. Tho 2 more is no big deal in the total cost. Mine were £10. I did use some £5 ones but they didn't last very long. Mine are all Hues. OTOH the other approach with leds is to just turn everything on auto at sunset and off at sunrise and I don't go to all that hassle. No hassle at all in fact much less hassle to have them do that completely auto by time of day varying by season. The PIRs I have (and I thought they all did) have light sensors. They won't switch on if it's light. Although they will stay on if it's light and motion continues to be detected, as they will receive light from their own lighting and won't know if it's got light or not. I did have to disable those in this room though, and fit a seperate one just for light, since when one turns on the lights, the others then think it's daylight and stop functioning. That's why I use the Hue system, much more control over what happens in the more complex situations and with combinations of movement sensors. And being able to change the light and movement sensitivity from the app to fine tune it without having to fart around with tiny knobs on the PIRs. No power to them at all either, so you can trivially put them anywhere and with a powerful magnet so you can just stick them on anything metal and only have to screw a metal thing on with a single screw when there is no metal where you want it, just a thick washer basically. just tell siri to turn them off off when in bed etc. I just set my bedroom one to have a very short delay, so I just get into bed and wait 20 seconds. Yeah, I can certainly program the movement sensor to do it like that. I positioned it so it can't see me rolling over in bed, but as soon as I stick my feet out to stand up, the light comes on. Yeah, I have the same thing. But I find the built in thermometer useful with the Hues. What has temperature to do with lighting? Nothing but with the fancy zibgee system they use to control lights anywhere in the house, once you have the electronics to do that there, it costs cents to include a temperature sensor that can be used for a fully integrated house system. And with whether hot and cold taps have the hot one on the right of the pair or the left. I can never remember which way round mine are, until I go to use one. Because when I use one in another house that's the other way round, I always get it wrong. Never had any other car that way round. Yeah, the frogs are much worse for that than most. They even speak backwards, putting the noun before the adjective. And some buggers even write backwards. Muslims. And some write upside down. Who? Well? Like I said, whenever there is more than one way to do it, you can be sure some will do it one way and some the other. Yes, there are always morons. And ******s like you. That would imply deliberately mis-designing your own product. Wrong, as always. I suggested only morons would choose the wrong way, Yes, you actually are that pathetic excuse for a troll. and you added ******s to that list. Irrelevant to your **** about mis design. |
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Blue railway signals?
"Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:59:55 -0000, Rod Speed wrote: "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 07:06:28 -0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 15/12/2018 01:00, Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:59:29 -0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 14/12/2018 18:22, Fred Johnson wrote: People with colour blindness shouldn't drive trains (or cars for that matter). And it's not very many, in fact I know of only one person who's colourblind. It matter for railways due to needing to determine the colour from a long distance, due to the long stopping distance of a train. It is fine for a colourblind person to drive a car, as the stopping distance is short enough for the driver to get close enough to determint the position of the light on traffic light. Up to eight percent of men of North European decent are red-green colour blind. Since when were Northern European men decent? :-) Since they put on clothes to keep the ice and snow out? So we're born indecent? That doesn't make sense whether you believe in god or evolution. Wrong with evolution. Huh? If we needed clothes we'd be born with them on. Must be why are born with cars around us, houses etc. |
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Blue railway signals?
"Max Demian" wrote in message o.uk... On 15/12/2018 22:27, Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:59:55 -0000, Rod Speed wrote: "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message news On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 07:06:28 -0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 15/12/2018 01:00, Kristy Ogilvie wrote: Since when were Northern European men decent? :-) Since they put on clothes to keep the ice and snow out? So we're born indecent? That doesn't make sense whether you believe in god or evolution. Wrong with evolution. Huh? If we needed clothes we'd be born with them on. Why didn't we (Europeans) regrow our fur when we moved north? Because you had enough of a clue to work out how to use animal skins and eventually to invent clothes. even our Neanderthal cousins didn't. They arent your cousins. And they died out and are only now seen playing rubgy football. |
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Blue railway signals?
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:48:04 +0000, Kristy Ogilvie wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:25:52 -0000, Johnny B Good wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:21:55 +0000, Fred Johnson wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:22:05 -0000, Max Demian wrote: ====snip==== Usually hot is on the left. Seems to be that way on all my sinks, but I'd say in other people's houses I see it the other way round in about 20% of cases. When I were a lad, the bathroom sink was definitely the other way round, can't remember the kitchen sink. Back in the day when *cold* running water was a luxury, the tap (fawcet) would be mounted on the RHS for ease of use by right handed people (the majority of the population - most left handers learn soon enough to become ambidextrous). The hot tap being a much later luxury add on had to make do with the only remaining space on the LHS. Thus was the convention of LHS hot/RHS cold tap placement born. The other way round is usually the result of lazy plumbing and pure chance. I must admit if I were to fit taps to a new sink, I'd either fit them to whichever pipe was closest, or randomly. I might make them the same as another sink in the house, but if I'm fitting all the sinks from scratch, I wouldn't bother looking up what the "standard" was. Don't most folk just operate the blue or red topped one as required? That's what I do. I will occasionally then think "that's odd, it's the other way round to my house", but I never turn the wrong one on. I can understand the standard of pushing down for on (down is always more, it's the way we write text), but left and right don't mean hot and cold to me. Mind you, something that annoys me are cooker controls. Electric cookers operate clockwise for hotter, like a volume control, but gas cookers operate anti-clockwise for hotter, like a tap. Why did electrics go the other way to gas/water? Is it because they used to tighten the thread to increase pressure for less resistance? Surely a rheostat could be wired either way round. Also phones and calculators/computers have the numbers the other way up. The computer makes sense, higher numbers further up, but the phone is upside down. "Standards". The nice thing about 'standards' is that there are so many to choose from. At one time, there was only one logical place on a sink to fit the one and only tap (fawcet) and that was to suit the majority who were right handed so it became *the* standard. When hot taps were added, the natural location was, therefore, on the LHS and thus, out of logical necessity, was the left hand hot tap with a right hand cold tap convention arrived at. Since there's already an existing (born out of logic) standard way round to fit hot and cold taps and you want to maintain consistency within your own home, it's just simply better that the layout you choose matches that used in the vast majority of cases elsewhere. Consistency is the key to an easier life, so, just 'go with the flow'. :-) -- Johnny B Good |
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Blue railway signals?
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:43:10 +0000, Kristy Ogilvie wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:36:14 -0000, Johnny B Good wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 10:33:25 +0000, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 01:07:11 GMT, "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 00:40:37 -0000, Rod Speed is a xposting troll. PDNFTT I think that acronym can be improved to "PDNFTFT!" :-) I've been banned from forums for less. I've used even stronger acronyms such as GIYF! The pling (or bang) completely changes the meaning (and more importantly, the tone) of the more usual GIYF :-) -- Johnny B Good |
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Blue railway signals?
On 15/12/2018 20:31, Terry Casey wrote:
the length of the rear half of the arm plus the spectacle glass holder behind it is overall much longer that the front half of the arm so, in the event of snow, the weight on the rear would still be greater than on the front. I think the appropriate response here is '********': http://vps.templar.co.uk/Odds%20and%...q%20signal.png -- "What do you think about Gay Marriage?" "I don't." "Don't what?" "Think about Gay Marriage." |
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Blue railway signals?
On 15/12/2018 19:25, Johnny B Good wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:21:55 +0000, Fred Johnson wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:22:05 -0000, Max Demian wrote: ====snip==== Usually hot is on the left. Seems to be that way on all my sinks, but I'd say in other people's houses I see it the other way round in about 20% of cases. When I were a lad, the bathroom sink was definitely the other way round, can't remember the kitchen sink. Back in the day when *cold* running water was a luxury, the tap (fawcet) would be mounted on the RHS for ease of use by right handed people (the majority of the population - most left handers learn soon enough to become ambidextrous). The hot tap being a much later luxury add on had to make do with the only remaining space on the LHS. Thus was the convention of LHS hot/RHS cold tap placement born. The other way round is usually the result of lazy plumbing and pure chance. Any evidence for that? Surely they would put the single tap in the middle for symmetry. Was there ever a time when hot taps were added as an extra to an existing cold water tap, rather than installing them together? Sounds like a neat, invented explanation. -- Max Demian |
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