Filling Station: Please Discharge all Static Before Entering
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HGV up to 40 tons (old uk weight)
BUT UK SWITCHED TO THE METRIC SYSTEM all the British people I know can never shut up about it!
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I seem to have a recollection that a (vehicle) truck has a very specific meaning. I think it is an open backed LGV
Over here it's a term as vague as lorry. They're often used interchangeably.
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40 tons (old uk weight)
I have absolutely no idea what that is in tonnes, kg, or Triganic Pu's. But then I don't need to :p
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To be fair, you have been wearing the outside in a lot lately.
In Sweden we still have the little catch at the back of the handle so yih don't have to hold on all the time. I've never heard of fire accidents because of this. We do, however, also have an extra cuff on the nossle that collectsp petrol fumes from the tank and recycles them.
It's been years since I last refuelled in Germany, Belgium, or the Netherlands, but I remember the petrol stations being the same as here, so I am really not getting alot of this discussion.
... There is one petrol station I know of that have removed the catch, but that was because idiots drove off with the hose still attaced.
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Heavy Goods Vehicle
TIL. I always thought it was "High Gross (Weight) Vehicle", which would make more sense.
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I guess it's because passenger and goods vehicles get classified separately. If it ain't that then fuck knows.
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We do, however, also have an extra cuff on the nossle that collectsp petrol fumes from the tank and recycles them.
They have these in some US states as well, but auto manufactures have designed systems (ORVR) to collect the vapors from tanks making these unnecessary.
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To be fair, you have been wearing the outside in a lot lately.
In Sweden we still have the little catch at the back of the handle so yih don't have to hold on all the time. I've never heard of fire accidents because of this. We do, however, also have an extra cuff on the nossle that collectsp petrol fumes from the tank and recycles them.
It's been years since I last refuelled in Germany, ■■■■■■■, or the Netherlands, but I remember the petrol stations being the same as here, so I am really not getting alot of this discussion.
... There is one petrol station I know of that have removed the catch, but that was because idiots drove off with the hose still attaced.
WARNING::HIGH_@ACCALIA_INCIDENT_OCCURANCE
Or did you submit by mobile :)
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Yep. Don't know the correct UL modelling terminology, but
Class vehicle() { public mobileCarrier = true; public carrierContains = null; snip.... } Class Passengers extends Vehicle() { /** PSV */ public carrierContains = "people"; snip... } Class Goods extends Vehicle() { /** HGV / LGV PSV */ public carrierContains = "goods"; snip... } Class Private extends Vehicle() { / ** PLG - Anything that is not Passenger or Goods. Typically cars and vans */ public carrierContains = "people"; if (((rand(epoch.time()) / 2 ) == (int(rand(epoch.time())) / 2)) { carrierContains = "goods"; } snip... }
All vehicles are derived from these three "classes"
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Don't know the correct UL modelling terminology, but
Well you could have just written it normally
Also, you have HGV/LGV under Passengers?
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Opps, I thought I'd fixed that - must have done control-z once too often.
Of course, I blame the editor widget
Edit done, thanks.
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like 29 static triggered fires in ~17e9 fill ups
This was a very long argument about something much less likely to happen than getting into a fatal car wreck on the way to the gas station. I'd be upset if I had anything better to do at work.
When you have a million to one chance of something happening and that involves risk of harm to people. It is not insignificant and disproportion effort (including propaganda) will be employed to prevent it
If you're in the "one is too many camp" (see above) you may as well just write us off as evil shitlords who want people to die in gasoline fires and get it over with.
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If you're in the "one is too many camp" (see above) you may as well just write us off as evil shitlords who want people to die in gasoline fires and get it over with.
tl;dr: I am an evil shitlord. Fuel pump trigger latches aren't really dangerous.
If people are worried about something like this, they need something better to do with their time. Here's the only video I can find of a static ignited gas fire:
It looks like that woman didn't suffer any serious injury, and she even made the extremely idiotic move of pulling the nozzle from her vehicle instead of running for the emergency shutoff switch. Also note that the "napalm pump" mentioned at the beginning of the thread didn't happen.
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The "camp" I am in, is for me to disclose or not (and sometimes the camp changes depending on .... things).
Unfortunately, benign, democratic governments have to be seen (at least) to be in the "one is too many camp" and, unfortunately, governments make the rules that creates the society that demands(an) action because one is too many
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Okay, okay, guess we can stop beating a dead urchin.
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I don't speak your booga-booga language, but my vehicle has a 20 gallon tank and it take a few minutes. Never timed it though, but it is too damned long to stand outside when it is >100F or <0F. Right now we are usually around 75-80F and I will stay outside until it is done.
And I don't speak your measurements-based-on-various-body-parts-such-as-a-child-might-use unit system.
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@Maciejasjmj said:
Okay, okay, guess we can stop beating a dead urchin.
But can we burn said urchin?
Did he just suggest....
...... NO!
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You've been reading too much Dickens - I don't think they mean this kind of urchin....
.... but perhaps the spiny kind.
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You've been reading too much Dickens - I don't think they mean this kind of urchin....
.... but perhaps the spiny kind.
Filed under: presented without comment
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Paging @CarrieVS for clarification purposes?
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i think @RaceProUK would be more likely to understand this exchange...
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... I know I don't.
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And I don't speak your measurements-based-on-various-body-parts-such-as-a-child-might-use unit system.
Your arbitrary everything-must-be-base-ten-system-because-I'm-more-robot-than-human is just not worth it.
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You've been reading too much Dickens - I don't think they mean this kind of urchin....
.... but perhaps the spiny kind.
Does it matter which kind when the implication is the same?
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Your arbitrary everything-must-be-base-ten-system-because-I'm-more-robot-than-human is just not worth it.
But you're counting and doing math in the decimal (base ten) system, or? It's just as arbitrary. The Dozenal Society has some excellent reasons to switch to duodecimal. Or you could always think and work in hexadecimal, or even Pi-base - that'd make all your geometry a snap.
Point is, all measuring systems are arbitrary, but I like the one that fits nicely into my "internal" base system. I don't need different factors of conversion for mass, length, volume,... That's just another possibility for error.
Edit: It was not my intention to disparage the imperial system or promote the metric, but I didn't like the tone of "I don't speak your booga-booga language,..."
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So where's your decimal hours?
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So where's your decimal hours?
Yea, I meant to add a statement to the effect of "Time is the exception here and I don't really like that, but what can you do?"
I decided it was too obvious and didn't need to be mentioned.
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Does it matter which kind when the implication is the same?
I know I'm probably in the minority for this place, but setting fire to innocent street children...
probably by dressing in them wool clothing, rubbing them francticaly with balloons and hurling them at spewing gas pumps...
... seems wronger than overcooking sea creatures. Just me, tho.
Filed under: wasn't that a new game on Steam?
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I know I'm probably in the minority for this place, but setting fire to innocent street children...
... seems wronger than overcooking sea creatures. Just me, tho.
It's dead. Does it really matter?
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... seems wronger than overcooking sea creatures.
As long as you're not suggesting...eating...the sea creatures. Yuck.
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It's dead. Does it really matter?
Again, I cling to tradtion.... even dead innocent street children probably shouldn't be burned up willy-nilly.
Think of the children... think....
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As long as you're not suggesting...eating...the sea creatures. Yuck.
Probably a bit more meat on a on a street urchin anyway.
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Probably a bit more meat on a on a street urchin anyway.
Surely the opposite is true... what with you lot raising the land urchins - they're mostly gruel-raised, yes?
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I reckon your average street urchin is larger than your average sea urchin.
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True. 1-for-1 land urchins are larger than their sea cousins...
But the sea-borne-and-raised ones are meat-ier
Amazing that you have this prejudice in favor of consuming the helpless - they're not all the sons and daughters of Irish drunkards, you know.
A small minority had parents who were teetotalers.
lets see how quickly you come back from that one!
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It's easier.
Only in the short term - less nutrition, plus you're sacrificing all that healthy exercise you could be getting...
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You're forcing me to put more thought into this than I'd intended
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Ditto... it's weird defending the weak - normally I'm too busy deforesting, strip-mining and speculating in the Yuan. ;)
(Did the .jpg come through?)
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I didn't like the tone of "I don't speak your booga-booga language,..."
I read this as:
I didn't like the tone of humor
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@abarker said:
@Maciejasjmj said:
Okay, okay, guess we can stop beating a dead urchin.
But can we burn said urchin?
...... NO!So I take it you are opposed to cremation?
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@accalia said:
@abarker said:
@Maciejasjmj said:
Okay, okay, guess we can stop beating a dead urchin.
But can we burn said urchin?
...... NO!So I take it you are opposed to cremation?
Cremation, no. Immolation, yes!
/me puts the appropriate authorities on speed dial just in case
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Cremation, no. Immolation, yes!
/me puts the appropriate authorities on speed dial just in case
Okay, okay, guess we can stop beating a dead urchin.
Umm, the specified scenario kind of makes immolation a non-starter. Especially if you presume that the urchin in question is of the sea, and not the street, variety.
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@accalia said:
Cremation, no. Immolation, yes!
/me puts the appropriate authorities on speed dial just in case
Okay, okay, guess we can stop beating a dead urchin.
Umm, the specified scenario kind of makes immolation a non-starter. Especially if you presume that the urchin in question is of the sea, and not the street, variety.
/me looks suspiciously at @abarker
could just be mostly dead. mostly dead is not all dead.