Cyclists waste petrol

On 09/29/2018 12:53 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
It's a PLANT. A naturally occurring plant.

So is jimponweed. Want some?

On 09/29/2018 12:54 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
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On 09/25/2018 09:25 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
We just changed recently. Annoyingly they also changed one of
the
coins, so they're slightly bigger and no longer fit in any
machines
until they're all changed over at the shop's expense. Clueless
Royal
Mint, they do that every 5 years.

At least you don't have Loonies...

Who?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonie

We do in fact have both a gold colored $1 and $2 coins and they work
fine
except for the terminal stupidity that the $1 coin is bigger than
the
$2
coin.
And the 50c coin is bigger again, but is silver colored and not gold
colored.

And we don't have 1c and 2c coins anymore, the lowest value is 5c.

I misspoke. I was thinking of the toonie..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie

I don't know if it was just an urban legend but there was talk
that the
manufacturing process wasn't ironed out for the first runs and the
core
would fall out leaving you with a $2 washer.

I liked going to Canada. In the '90s the exchange rate was
unfavorable
to the Canadians and they used different colors for their paper money
with bears, penguins, or whatever in the designs. For $100 you got a
wad
of multicolored Canadian bills. It was like Monopoly money.

What screwed me up was liters for gasoline. Between the exchange rate
and trying to do liters to gallons in my head I always assumed I was
getting screwed at the pump where the former Imperial gallons seemed
like a bargain.

Our Aldi supermarkets, being a German company, like to make everything
metric, hence they sell litres of milk instead of the pints I get
everywhere else,

Ours are all metric, and that's the law.

I forgot something else annoying they do. Every other supermarket sells
10kg bags of cat litter. Yet Aldi sells 8 litre bags. LITRES? For a
powder? You gotta be kidding me.

Yeah, that is weird, but likely due to the rather odd way
they source stuff like that, presumably the cheapest
supplier they can find who happens to do it that weirdly.

Since it works out more expensive than Asda (they're slightly lighter
but the same price), they're not doing very well at sourcing the cheapest.

The dishwasher pellets are made in Luxembourg of all places.
God knows why its cheapest to move it all the way from there.

I could understand the UK ones coming from there, but shipping those all
the way to Australia?!

Why ship lamb here all the way from Australia or New Zealand? There's a
bunch of sheep just down the road.

In 'Small is Beautiful' iirc, Schumacher was upset when he saw two
lorries full of biscuits pass each other in opposite directions. I can't
recall the two British cities but I remember them as being about 100
miles apart.

We do that on a grand scale in the US. I've taken a load of carpets 2400
miles across the country only to load more carpets to take back to where
I came from. They all looked like carpets to me but I was getting paid
by the mile.

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On 09/27/2018 06:24 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
I listened to a few alternatives before I posted the original. I
hated
them all. Too strong an American accent and just didn't sound
right.

You're probably not ready for the guy who wrote the song then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMuQTN7Xo4w

Not bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F15thKUEECQ

That's the PHucker's theme song.

What have you got against cannabis?

Nothing, but it likely gives you lung cancer like tobacco does. Cant
be good for your lungs to breath any burning stuff in deliberately.

It's been proven to CURE cancer.

BULL****.

It's been proven to be much better for you than alcohol.

BULL****.

https://www.green-flower.com/article...ts-of-cannabis

Just because some fool claims something...

You wont be able to cite even a single peer reviewed medical journal that
produced any proper double blind trial that proves anything like that.

No, because that **** is censored by the government.

Even sillier than you usually manage, and that's saying something.

It's a PLANT. A naturally occurring plant.

Doesn't mean that it cures cancer, stupid.

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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On 09/25/2018 09:25 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
We just changed recently. Annoyingly they also changed one of
the
coins, so they're slightly bigger and no longer fit in any
machines
until they're all changed over at the shop's expense. Clueless
Royal
Mint, they do that every 5 years.

At least you don't have Loonies...

Who?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonie

We do in fact have both a gold colored $1 and $2 coins and they work
fine
except for the terminal stupidity that the $1 coin is bigger than
the
$2
coin.
And the 50c coin is bigger again, but is silver colored and not gold
colored.

And we don't have 1c and 2c coins anymore, the lowest value is 5c.

I misspoke. I was thinking of the toonie..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie

I don't know if it was just an urban legend but there was talk that
the
manufacturing process wasn't ironed out for the first runs and the
core
would fall out leaving you with a $2 washer.

I liked going to Canada. In the '90s the exchange rate was
unfavorable
to the Canadians and they used different colors for their paper money
with bears, penguins, or whatever in the designs. For $100 you got a
wad
of multicolored Canadian bills. It was like Monopoly money.

What screwed me up was liters for gasoline. Between the exchange rate
and trying to do liters to gallons in my head I always assumed I was
getting screwed at the pump where the former Imperial gallons seemed
like a bargain.

Our Aldi supermarkets, being a German company, like to make everything
metric, hence they sell litres of milk instead of the pints I get
everywhere else,

Ours are all metric, and that's the law.

I forgot something else annoying they do. Every other supermarket sells
10kg bags of cat litter. Yet Aldi sells 8 litre bags. LITRES? For a
powder? You gotta be kidding me.

Yeah, that is weird, but likely due to the rather odd way
they source stuff like that, presumably the cheapest
supplier they can find who happens to do it that weirdly.

Since it works out more expensive than Asda (they're slightly lighter but
the same price),

Don't believe that.

they're not doing very well at sourcing the cheapest.

The dishwasher pellets are made in Luxembourg of all places.
God knows why its cheapest to move it all the way from there.

I could understand the UK ones coming from there, but shipping those all
the way to Australia?!

Yeah, that's what I meant. And its considerably cheaper than all the
alternatives when you buy the large boxes when they are special buys.

On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 22:10:32 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/29/2018 12:54 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:40:05 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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news On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:29:04 +0100, rbowman
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On 09/26/2018 07:05 AM, Rod Speed wrote:


"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On 09/25/2018 09:25 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
We just changed recently. Annoyingly they also changed one of
the
coins, so they're slightly bigger and no longer fit in any
machines
until they're all changed over at the shop's expense. Clueless
Royal
Mint, they do that every 5 years.

At least you don't have Loonies...

Who?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonie

We do in fact have both a gold colored $1 and $2 coins and they work
fine
except for the terminal stupidity that the $1 coin is bigger than
the
$2
coin.
And the 50c coin is bigger again, but is silver colored and not gold
colored.

And we don't have 1c and 2c coins anymore, the lowest value is 5c.

I misspoke. I was thinking of the toonie..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie

I don't know if it was just an urban legend but there was talk
that the
manufacturing process wasn't ironed out for the first runs and the
core
would fall out leaving you with a $2 washer.

I liked going to Canada. In the '90s the exchange rate was
unfavorable
to the Canadians and they used different colors for their paper money
with bears, penguins, or whatever in the designs. For $100 you got a
wad
of multicolored Canadian bills. It was like Monopoly money.

What screwed me up was liters for gasoline. Between the exchange rate
and trying to do liters to gallons in my head I always assumed I was
getting screwed at the pump where the former Imperial gallons seemed
like a bargain.

Our Aldi supermarkets, being a German company, like to make everything
metric, hence they sell litres of milk instead of the pints I get
everywhere else,

Ours are all metric, and that's the law.

I forgot something else annoying they do. Every other supermarket sells
10kg bags of cat litter. Yet Aldi sells 8 litre bags. LITRES? For a
powder? You gotta be kidding me.

Yeah, that is weird, but likely due to the rather odd way
they source stuff like that, presumably the cheapest
supplier they can find who happens to do it that weirdly.

Since it works out more expensive than Asda (they're slightly lighter
but the same price), they're not doing very well at sourcing the cheapest.

The dishwasher pellets are made in Luxembourg of all places.
God knows why its cheapest to move it all the way from there.

I could understand the UK ones coming from there, but shipping those all
the way to Australia?!

Why ship lamb here all the way from Australia or New Zealand? There's a
bunch of sheep just down the road.

In 'Small is Beautiful' iirc, Schumacher was upset when he saw two
lorries full of biscuits pass each other in opposite directions. I can't
recall the two British cities but I remember them as being about 100
miles apart.

We do that on a grand scale in the US. I've taken a load of carpets 2400
miles across the country only to load more carpets to take back to where
I came from. They all looked like carpets to me but I was getting paid
by the mile.

Cost to the customer should dictate ones further away will be less likely to be bought, so I guess they were different carpets.

On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 22:03:58 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/29/2018 12:53 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
It's a PLANT. A naturally occurring plant.

So is jimponweed. Want some?

The point is illegalising a naturally occurring thing is insane.

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:24:35 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/26/2018 12:47 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
You currently have no dollar coin?!

Effectively, no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar...(United_States)

I probably have one around here someplace. I thought I'd found it but it
turned out to be a token for the carousel.

We also have a two dollar bill. I've got one that I'm using as a
bookmark. They never took off either.

We do not have a three dollar bill, leading to the expression 'as queer
as a three dollar bill'.

There is a 50 cent coin, again rarely seen. It's redundant since you can
make any sum with 1, 5, 10, and 25.

We have 1,2,5,10,20,50,100,200 pence coins. They're all equally used. Why use two 25 cent coins when you can use a 50?

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:09:15 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/26/2018 10:55 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
I've seen places for rent at twice the cost of my mortgage, and the
house is half the size. That's a fourfold difference.

And I've seen the counter-example.

Maybe different in another country. In the UK landlords have so many ****ing hoops to jump through for electrical and fire safety, it costs them a fortune to rent out, plus of course half the tenants wreck the joint and run off.

Finally, if you live in an RV you get to keep it. And modify it. Lot
rent is quite a bit less than rental properties.

I take it RV means campervan? Those depreciate way faster than houses.

If you don't plan on selling it who cares? Besides, as you argued for
automobiles, buy them used after they depreciate.

Still a lot of repairs to do, like rust, and the engine of course.

Living in a tent isn't bad. I lived in my pickup for much of 1988 and
1989. Technically I suppose I was homeless but it was my choice. Home
was anyplace in the US where I parked it.

I need space for belongings.

When I left NH if it didn't fit in the pickup I didn't need it. Right
now I've been stationary too long and the **** is accumulating. MP3s and
Kindles are great inventions; electrons take up a lot less room than
books, tapes, and CDs.

Almost every time I've thrown something away I've wanted it 6 months later.

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On 09/26/2018 07:05 AM, Rod Speed wrote:


"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On 09/25/2018 09:25 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
We just changed recently. Annoyingly they also changed one of
the
coins, so they're slightly bigger and no longer fit in any
machines
until they're all changed over at the shop's expense. Clueless
Royal
Mint, they do that every 5 years.

At least you don't have Loonies...

Who?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonie

We do in fact have both a gold colored $1 and $2 coins and they work
fine
except for the terminal stupidity that the $1 coin is bigger than
the
$2
coin.
And the 50c coin is bigger again, but is silver colored and not gold
colored.

And we don't have 1c and 2c coins anymore, the lowest value is 5c.

I misspoke. I was thinking of the toonie..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie

I don't know if it was just an urban legend but there was talk that
the
manufacturing process wasn't ironed out for the first runs and the
core
would fall out leaving you with a $2 washer.

I liked going to Canada. In the '90s the exchange rate was
unfavorable
to the Canadians and they used different colors for their paper money
with bears, penguins, or whatever in the designs. For $100 you got a
wad
of multicolored Canadian bills. It was like Monopoly money.

What screwed me up was liters for gasoline. Between the exchange rate
and trying to do liters to gallons in my head I always assumed I was
getting screwed at the pump where the former Imperial gallons seemed
like a bargain.

Our Aldi supermarkets, being a German company, like to make everything
metric, hence they sell litres of milk instead of the pints I get
everywhere else,

Ours are all metric, and that's the law.

Do your lawmakers have nothing more sensible to do?

They do them all.

What? I asked why your lawmakers don't do more sensible things, other
than making everything metric, which nobody gives a **** about.

it makes price comparisons annoyingly difficult. They also do weird
**** like putting the prices above the shelf instead of on it, I'm
always looking at the price for the wrong thing.

They don't do that here.

In every supermarket but Aldi here, the price is on the shelf which the
item is sitting on. In Aldi however, it's on the shelf above, or for
the
top shelf, way above it on a vertical bit.

Like I said, Aldi does it the same way all the other supermarkets do it
here.

They do however have a nice tactic of speeding things up by letting
you
just put one of everything on the conveyor belt, then telling them how
many you have left in the trolley. Sometimes I guess you might feel
the
need to er.... tell them the wrong number :-)

Ours counts them even when you tell them.

Try filling your trolley to the brim, they can't see them all then :-)

I did that at one time, they required them to
all be on the belt so they could count them.

They did that to me a few times, then stopped again, it was slowing down
the queue. It seems they'd rather take the risk of some cheats than have
everyone take longer to get through the checkout and employ more staff.

Our old silver dollars were large. The latest attempts to float out a
dollar coin have been barely distinguishable from a quarter (25 cent
piece). They never have taken off.

You currently have no dollar coin?!

Yes they do. But for some reason most don't use it presumably because
they didn't crap all the paper $1 notes when they introduced it. Its
now
not even minted for general currency use, just for collectors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar...(United_States)

$1 US is worth even less than £1. Our £1 notes fell to bits through
overuse, I dread to think what theirs look like.

That comes down to how soon they pulp them, not how much use they get.

But they can only pulp them when they are handed in to a bank.

Commercial operations do that all the time. Do you seriously believe
that they stuff the money they take under the mattress ?

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On 09/26/2018 09:02 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
One of the chain self checkouts used to just
dispense $20s here and I used that for that
reason instead of an ATM but they have
changed those now and they don't let you
specify what you want, it works that out
for you so you can still get $20s by specifying
you want $40, but you get $50s if you say
you want $50 or $100 etc. That chain has
now closed their store in my town now so
I have to use the other self checkouts.

I'll have to pay more attention the next time. I think you can specify a
number but the selection menu is in $20 increments. The max on the menu
is
$200, or sometimes $100 at the smaller kiosks in markets.

I've got the feeling if you said you wanted $57 the machine would make
impolite remarks. Maybe not, since the self service checkouts can make
change with smaller bills. I never thought about it. I just grab $200
and
go.

Yeah, I'm about to try them all now because I have always
preferred to have $20 notes for the garage/yard sales. $50s
can be a real hassle, particularly given that we show up
at the garage/yard sales before anyone else and hardly
any ensure that they have lots of change. I prefer to use
the self checkouts rather than ATMs just because you
don't normally have to queue for the self checkouts
and there is no chance of a skimmer on the self checkout.

You must have a lot of criminals over there.

Most of those skimming ATMs are tourists.