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Yes. Generally called spark plug wires in this country. They
may
be
a
thing of the past. My Toyota doesn't have any but I don't know
how
common that is.

It will, but they're concealed in one tube.

No concealment on the Toyota. It has Coil-on-Plug ignition.

https://troubleshootmyvehicle.com/to...nition-coils-1


Why do they tend to put the coils on the plugs now instead of
having
one
big coil?

The last car I inspected may have had that, I'm not sure, all I
know
is
there was a bar that clipped over all the plugs, with one thick
wire
leading to it.

It eliminates the moving parts of the distributor and the high
tension
wires. Even without the old mechanical points, that is still a
couple
of
areas of potential failure. The ECU is capable of delivering a
timed
pulse.

The trouble is when the ECU goes wrong all hell breaks loose.

It doesn't go wrong with the well designed ones.

My current (French - as in ****ty electrics) car failed the annual
safety
test because it was reporting a failure of the antilock brakes.
Luckily
I
use a garage where the mechanics have common sense. The computer
reported
a fault, but refused to specify what part was broken, so he just
passed
it
anyway.

Cars get bumped about, we can't build computers that can withstand
that.

Corse we can and do. No one I know has ever had any computer failure in
their car.

Everyone I know has.

Don't believe that. No one here has reported having one fail.

Well they all fail here, from every manufacturer.

Bull**** they do.

They do. ****ing engine management light on for no reason etc. What's wrong with a display that says "failed fuel pump" in English?

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I really ****ed off a horserider once. I was
driving
a very
old
Range
Rover automatic which had a conversion to LPG. It
very
often
misfired,
made loud bangs, and changed gear without warning.
I
managed
to
cause a
small explosion and a loud revving of the engine
just
as I
passed a
horserider coming the other way along a narrow
country
road.
The
horse
**** itself, and so did the rider.

I did better than that... I was coming down a
narrow
road
that
went
past
a dude ranch on my Harley. Coming the other was was
a
herd of
dudes
on
their docile refugees from a canning factory led by
a
genuine
wild
west
cowboy. ****head's horse had a nervous breakdown
while
the
guests'
nags
barely roused from their stupor.

it doesn't take much to set them off. I've worked
with
horses
enough
to
know most of them are a neurotic bundle of nerves.
If
the
horse
can't
handle public roads, trailer it to a nice quiet
horse
trail
someplace.

Indeed. Horses on roads were fine, before the
invention
of
the
motor
car.

They weren't actually, lots got killed by them
bolting
etc.

They're not the brightest of animals.

A common description around here is a cowboy is the
third
dumbest
critter riding the second dumbest and chasing the first
dumbest.

I would agree with that statement.

I wouldn't, sheep are a lot dumber than cattle.

I'd say they were equally stupid.

No, you can turn cattle out in the forest in the spring and
expect to
find most of them in the fall, minus the few that walk off
cliffs
etc.
Try that with sheep and the first thing they will do is
find
something
poisonous to eat. Then the survivors will find a fence line
to
pile
up
against and smother half of them. The remnant will then try
to
drown
themselves in a creek. The hardy few survivors will get
eaten
by the
bears, wolves, mountain lions, and coyotes.

We do have wild bighorn sheep that can fend for themselves
but
centuries
of breeding have dumbed down the domestic version.

Besides, sheep are an excuse for blue heelers.

Maybe they should let the stupid sheep all die off,

Trouble is that with the current bred sheep, that is all of
them.

then the next generation will be more sensible.

Fraid not when they are all dead.

Then give up on the species altogether.

But then I wouldn't be able to eat their legs roasted.

Much prefer that to any other meat except steaks.

Doesn't it all taste pretty much the same? "Tastes like
chicken".

Nope. Roast leg of lamb doesn't taste anything
like chicken. Neither does a steak or pork.

It all tastes like rotten food to me.

Yes, you actually are that stupid.

And much prefer their wool to synthetics too.

I don't. Cotton is much more comfortable.

It is for stuff like T shirts and shorts and jeans
but wool is much better for sox and jumpers.

I prefer cotton socks

More fool you.

and I don't wear jumpers.

More fool you.

I thought only girls wore jumpers.

Never heard that one before.

I think we have another translation problem.

Yes, you barbarians call them sweaters.

If you're sweating while wearing one, you shouldn't be wearing one.

Depends on how long you are sweating for. If its just for a short time
while doing something particularly energetic, and plan to stop doing
that and sit around after doing that, it makes more sense to leave it
on.

And risk dehydration,

No risk of that.

or have to drink extra fluids?

No need to do that either.

Do you somehow believe sweat doesn't use up body fluids?

No. I'd take it off and tie it around my waist while working.

More fool you.

I prefer not to overheat.

Sweating for a short while isnt overheating.

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On 09/09/2018 01:08 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
I really ****ed off a horserider once. I was driving a very
old
Range
Rover automatic which had a conversion to LPG. It very
often
misfired,
made loud bangs, and changed gear without warning. I
managed
to
cause a
small explosion and a loud revving of the engine just as I
passed a
horserider coming the other way along a narrow country road.
The
horse
**** itself, and so did the rider.

I did better than that... I was coming down a narrow road
that
went
past
a dude ranch on my Harley. Coming the other was was a herd of
dudes
on
their docile refugees from a canning factory led by a genuine
wild
west
cowboy. ****head's horse had a nervous breakdown while the
guests'
nags
barely roused from their stupor.

it doesn't take much to set them off. I've worked with horses
enough
to
know most of them are a neurotic bundle of nerves. If the
horse
can't
handle public roads, trailer it to a nice quiet horse trail
someplace.

Indeed. Horses on roads were fine, before the invention of
the
motor
car.

They weren't actually, lots got killed by them bolting etc.

They're not the brightest of animals.

A common description around here is a cowboy is the third dumbest
critter riding the second dumbest and chasing the first dumbest.

I would agree with that statement.

I wouldn't, sheep are a lot dumber than cattle.

I'd say they were equally stupid.

No, you can turn cattle out in the forest in the spring and expect to
find most of them in the fall, minus the few that walk off cliffs
etc.
Try that with sheep and the first thing they will do is find
something
poisonous to eat. Then the survivors will find a fence line to pile
up
against and smother half of them. The remnant will then try to drown
themselves in a creek. The hardy few survivors will get eaten by the
bears, wolves, mountain lions, and coyotes.

We do have wild bighorn sheep that can fend for themselves but
centuries
of breeding have dumbed down the domestic version.

Besides, sheep are an excuse for blue heelers.

Maybe they should let the stupid sheep all die off, then the next
generation will be more sensible.

There wouldn't be a next generation. Goats have 60 chromosomes, sheep
have 54. The extra six control the formation of a working brain.

Then why does the animal exist?

For the same reason the dodo did.

But that died off. Sheep didn't.

Because we decided that it would be useful to
breed sheep so we could eat their legs and chops
and so we could make clothes from their wool.

So what is the reason the dodo existed?

There doesn't have to be a reason with evolution.

What is the reason mosquitoes or crocodiles existed ?

Shouldn't it have died out before humans began farming them?

Nope, not even with the dodo.

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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.

The problem doesn't exist here,

Wrong, as always.
https://www.google.com/search?q=atm+skimming+uk

you're doing something wrong.

Nope.

Never happened to me or anyone I know,

Never happened to me or anyone I know either.

I guess it's not that common here. Either that or you're overly
paranoid.

Or I have enough of a clue to have noticed the tourists caught
doing
it.

But if it's never happened to you or anyone you know, then it
isn't
widespread enough to worry about.

Even sillier than you usually manage.

What's silly about it? You've just admitted it's uncommon, yet your
worry
about it.

I don't worry about it. I use self checkouts because I am much
more likely to be able to walk up to one and use it and don't
have to queue while some clown fumbles around at the ATM.

You said "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****"

The last is just a bonus, not something I worry about.

No queues for ATMs here.

Because slum dwellers don't have any money.

Even the poor folk just use debit cards.

Plenty of them use cash too. Those are the ones
that pound on the ATM when it wont give them
the cash they would like it to give them.

Hardly any drug dealers take debit cards.

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

Presumably. They were all 12' rolls so I never saw the
working
side.
Furniture was the same deal. There still are furniture
factories
in
the
south eastern US while most of the furniture I loaded on
the
west
coast
was from Asia.

Other products weren't so easy to rationalize. I don't know
about
the
UK
but the Sunday papers (when people still read the Sunday
papers)
have
a
lot of colorful advertising brochures and other crap that
most
people
strip out and use to wrap garbage. I picked up a lot of
those
in
Boulder
CO to take to Baltimore MD, which is about 1600 miles.
Nobody
on
the
east coast can print useless stuff?

The whole scheme depends on cheap transportation / cheap
fuel.
Keep
those container ships and trucks rolling!

If your government put as much fuel tax on it as ours did,
that
wouldn't
be happening.

It happens in Britain and the EU too.

Britain isn't big enough to travel very far.

But the EU is.

Most stuff I buy is made in the UK.

Don't believe that with the food.

It is, probably mainly because of our ****ed up government
introducing
"local foods" advertising for the treehuggers to save transporting
things.
All the supermarkets seem to be proud to show off that their food
is
locally grown.

Pity about the stats that show that much of the food
consumed on that soggy little frigid island is imported.

I guess I only notice the silly stuff with the British flag on the
wrapper.

Likely that's just packed in Britain, not grown there.

It claims it is, so unless they're lying....

The stats show that either your slum is very different
the rest of the country or you are mistaken.

https://sustainability.asda.com/local-sourcing

"We’re committed to working with local suppliers. This means we can
support local communities while bringing you fresh and tasty products.
Asda takes pride in providing good quality food for our customers. And
we
want to make sure that putting a healthy, great tasting meal on your
family table doesn’t cost the earth. Our goal is to search out the best
local products we can find for you. More local produce means we’re
supporting more local businesses, and with fewer miles travelled."

Pity about the stats on where most the food you lot consume comes from.

That's why I said "I guess I only notice the silly stuff with the British
flag on the wrapper". Probably just some con by the government to please
the morons.

More likely just some con by the food manufacturers
to get bigots to buy their imported food.

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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.

Aluminum doesn't rust. RV's also include trailers so there
is
no
engine

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

My brother had a motorhome but he towed a Toyota yacht
tender
behind
it.
That's a very common practice so you have a vehicle smaller
than
a
bus
to drive around. With the trailer, you can drop the trailer
and
you
have
the tow vehicle for driving around.

There are quite a few full-time RVers in the US. Some are
retirees,
others are younger and find employment as they go.

https://www.outsideonline.com/185778...re-you-park-it

When I hit the road it was in a pickup similar to the 3rd
photo,
rather
than a van or some of the pickups with larger camper
shells.
It
was
inconspicuous and could go anyplace. I wandered around the
western
US
for a year, going to Arizona for the winter months, and
then
spent
a
year as a Forest Service volunteer. It's an interesting
life;
you
learn
to travel light and improvise.

I don't understand why they're still using steel on any
vehicle,

Because its much cheaper than the alternatives
and isnt hard to treat so it doesn't rust.

Yet all cars rust. After the warranty period though.

No rust on my Getz and it's a long way out of warranty now.

But you live in a huge desert compared to the soggy island I'm
stuck
on.

You'll find no rust on the 12 year old Getzs you find there too.

I have rust on my 16 year old Renault.

Because its just another frog steaming turd with wheels.

Although to be fair it's not significant. Why did it take them
until
now
to work out how to stop steel rusting?

It didn't, they previously chose not to bother.

Cars used to rust after 5 years.

My 69 beetle didn't. Neither did the 73 Golf.

My 98 Golf rusted to the point that it wasn't worth repairing for
the
annual safety test. That was about 5 years ago.

Bet you wont find any Getz like that there.

**** all Getzs here.

Irrelevant to whether they are rusty or not.

I've probably seen one every few months, so I can't check. They're
mainly
i10, i20, i30.

Bet none of those are rusty either.

Dunno, most cars round here are no more than 5 or 6 years old.

Bet the Hyundais that are older than that arent rusty.

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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?

Because that's what you happen to have, stupid.

Doesn't make the 50 redundant. We use 50s all the time, in
fact
I'd
say
all coins are used equally.

You'd be wrong about that last.

Incorrect, in my line of work I receive coins all the time, and
get
equal
numbers of all of them.

Don't believe that last.

It's true.

Nope.

Well I do.

Don't believe that.

You can refuse to believe if you wish, but I often get people giving
me
five 20p coins instead of a £1 coin, to get rid of them,

So by definition, you get more 20p coins than £1 coins.

No, because that happens probably about five times less often.

Bet its actually a lot less than five times less often.

Funny how I end up with so many 20 coins.

So your claim that you get equal numbers of all denominations is a lie.

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On 09/29/2018 03:46 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

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?

No idea. Almost all the coin trays have 5 buckets but the
fifth
is
most
often used to hold paper clips, rubber bands, or other
small
items.

One explanation is the half dollar was the last of the
coins
to
contain
silver and when the silver prices went up they were hoarded
and
fell
out
of circulation. By the time the composite coins came out
people
had
gotten away from using them.

Chicken or egg, but most vending machines and the pay
phones
didn't
take
them.

The US did have 2 and 3 cent pieces in the 1800's. There
was
the
naive
thought that a coin's bullion value should match its face
value
so
there
was some jockeying around. The nickel won the popularity
contest.

The 20 cent piece didn't last long either. That was a
political
move
by
the silver miners to have the government buy more silver.

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

The US has solved that problem. None of the coinage has
real
worth
although you can make sort of a low grade zamak out of
pennies.
Illegally, of course.

Why do you have such complicated terms for your coins? Ours
are
just
called by their value - 20p, 50p, etc.

Pity about the sovereign, crown, half crown, groat, shilling,
sixpence,
quid
etc.

None of those are used anymore apart form "quid" which is
simply
a
synonym
for "pound".

There are still slang terms for your decimal coins and notes.

Which aren't used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slang_...United_Kingdom

The only slang term in use for a denomination is "quid".

Wrong, as always.

Which words do you believe we use commonly?

You didn't say commonly. You said arent used.

As in I hear them less often than once a year.

Then you need to get out more.

No, I just live in a civilised area without silly regional accents.

In scotland ? Yeah, right.

You get strong accents in cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh, and also in
the middle of nowhere like the Highlands, but not in the middle.

Wrong with that last and you're shifting the goalposts, again, with your
strong.

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On 10/02/2018 04:42 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:37:49 +0100, rbowman
wrote:

On 09/30/2018 11:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Yes. Generally called spark plug wires in this country. They
may
be
a
thing of the past. My Toyota doesn't have any but I don't
know
how
common that is.

It will, but they're concealed in one tube.

No concealment on the Toyota. It has Coil-on-Plug ignition.

https://troubleshootmyvehicle.com/to...nition-coils-1


Why do they tend to put the coils on the plugs now instead of
having
one
big coil?

The last car I inspected may have had that, I'm not sure, all I
know
is
there was a bar that clipped over all the plugs, with one thick
wire
leading to it.

It eliminates the moving parts of the distributor and the high
tension
wires. Even without the old mechanical points, that is still a
couple
of
areas of potential failure. The ECU is capable of delivering a
timed
pulse.

The trouble is when the ECU goes wrong all hell breaks loose.

It doesn't go wrong with the well designed ones.

My current (French - as in ****ty electrics) car failed the annual
safety
test because it was reporting a failure of the antilock brakes.
Luckily
I
use a garage where the mechanics have common sense. The computer
reported
a fault, but refused to specify what part was broken, so he just
passed
it
anyway.

Cars get bumped about, we can't build computers that can withstand
that.

Corse we can and do. No one I know has ever had any computer failure
in
their car.

Everyone I know has.

Don't believe that. No one here has reported having one fail.

Well they all fail here, from every manufacturer.

Bull**** they do.

They do.

Bull**** they do with your stupid ALL.

****ing engine management light on for no reason etc.

Never happened to mine.

What's wrong with a display that says "failed fuel pump" in English?

Because most don't have a ****ing clue what a fuel
pump is. If you want a proper code that tell you what
has failed you get an OBD2 thing and it tells you that.

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On 10/02/2018 04:42 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:37:49 +0100, rbowman
wrote:

On 09/30/2018 11:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Yes. Generally called spark plug wires in this country. They
may
be
a
thing of the past. My Toyota doesn't have any but I don't
know
how
common that is.

It will, but they're concealed in one tube.

No concealment on the Toyota. It has Coil-on-Plug ignition.

https://troubleshootmyvehicle.com/to...nition-coils-1


Why do they tend to put the coils on the plugs now instead of
having
one
big coil?

The last car I inspected may have had that, I'm not sure, all I
know
is
there was a bar that clipped over all the plugs, with one thick
wire
leading to it.

It eliminates the moving parts of the distributor and the high
tension
wires. Even without the old mechanical points, that is still a
couple
of
areas of potential failure. The ECU is capable of delivering a
timed
pulse.

The trouble is when the ECU goes wrong all hell breaks loose.

It doesn't go wrong with the well designed ones.

My current (French - as in ****ty electrics) car failed the annual
safety
test because it was reporting a failure of the antilock brakes.
Luckily
I
use a garage where the mechanics have common sense. The computer
reported
a fault, but refused to specify what part was broken, so he just
passed
it
anyway.

Cars get bumped about, we can't build computers that can withstand
that.

Corse we can and do. No one I know has ever had any computer failure
in
their car.

Everyone I know has.

Don't believe that. No one here has reported having one fail.

Well they all fail here, from every manufacturer.

Bull**** they do.

They do.

Bull**** they do with your stupid ALL.

They do once they're about 10 years old.

****ing engine management light on for no reason etc.

Never happened to mine.

Maybe it's the soggy island syndrome.

What's wrong with a display that says "failed fuel pump" in English?

Because most don't have a ****ing clue what a fuel
pump is. If you want a proper code that tell you what
has failed you get an OBD2 thing and it tells you that.

They must have a clue as they can pass that information to the OBD2 thing. So why not just tell the driver? Why should the driver have to go to a garage to find out what's wrong? It's like washing machines that say "error F4" - why not "please replace intake valve"?