@Jarry That's seriously depressing, especially as more and more are added everywhere.
Posts made by flwf
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RE: The UK is becoming a police state.
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RE: What movie caused your birth?
I doubt my parents saw The Green Berets, so maybe Rosemary's Baby? That's a scary thought.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Wow, been gone a few months and you almost doubled this thread... glad I'm not following it.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
I have my initials and my last name (@hotmail.com) as my email address, no numbers or anything, so I understand why you were impressed. I've had the same email address for 22 years.
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RE: The Official First World Problems Threadâ„¢
RaceProUK:
the boombox and neon clothes is 80sThose fads may have started in the 80s, but they were alive and well in the 90s.
Agree to disagree.
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RE: The Official First World Problems Threadâ„¢
tar:
What does "going all '90s" on someone entail?Big boombox on the shoulder blasting rap music, sideways baseball cap, neon clothes, yo' mama jokes ...
That would be all 80s...
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Found out today that they're going to be cramming a couple hundred more people into our building which will mean doubling up in offices... makes the cubicles seem like heaven in comparison, even with the "open space concept".
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RE: How to grind an entire corporation to a halt
@Intercourse said:
flwf:
Spam-free? Wang's inbox is email-free!I am not the OP. We have never had an outage, that I have noticed.
FTFY
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RE: How to grind an entire corporation to a halt
@Intercourse said:
I actually prefer it to anything else out there. I like the interface and it works perfectly well for our purposes. I also appreciate that their acquisition of Postini makes for an almost entirely spam-free inbox. I have no complaints.
Spam-free? Your inbox is email-free!
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RE: So I did a thing on Amazon...
Zecc:
What else does @sockbot do? And does it respond to other people too?at the moment, not much. it pretty much responds if you @summon it or rolls dice.
'm working on making him do more interesting things as well.
I thought it rolled socks...
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RE: But It Works For Me
Everyone who sits around me knows how much I love "but it works for me". I get to say, "It doesn't work for me, and it has to, so you have to fix it." I guess you don't get to say that?
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
I've always assumed "drive it like you stole it" meant "don't worry about any damage you may cause because you didn't pay for the car so you're not hurting yourself."
I think it's like the general rule: don't break more than one law at once.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
You should see a doctor to get that checked on.
Damn, I should be more careful... with my words.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
I can't decide if Jughandles are better or worse than a Michigan Left.
Yeah, we have them too, but mostly where it's not too populous. I think they're equally WTFy.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
The intersection was retrofitted to add a jughangle; the left turn lane was to be blocked with cones or barrels. I actually haven't been there since it happened so I don't know what the deal is; someone told me everyone's ignoring the jughandle, even though the cops will supposedly ticket you for not using it.
I live in New Jersey, so I get jughandles (and circles... gasp) and we constantly have drivers from other states turning left from the left lane, ignoring all of the no turn signs and the honking drivers that (usually) almost crash into them from behind.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
When I was in college, I had a mini-pickup that was a hand-me-down from my dad. I never changed the oil, because it changed itself while I drove. I used to joke that it got 400 miles to the gallon — of oil. It went on like that for years, until one time I forgot to top it up before driving home (200 miles) for a holiday.
Well, I guess I should have accounted for replacing the dripping oil... :)
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Yes. And you've probably never come across the term because you've probably never had the misfortune of having to drive in New Jersey, which is more or less the only place where they have such a stupid thing.
They tried to add one here in Dallas a year or two ago. I don't get out that way much but I believe people basically ignore it in favor of the left turn lane that's always been there.
A jughandle AND a left turn lane? That is a WTF.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Well, that's a nice answer. It's probably more the dirt and the dust mixing with water than any amount of dripping oil.
sigh
I quit.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Yes, but not due to the oil but due to the water. Water is a good lubricant all of itself (like any kind of fluid, actually). It's the reason why you have to be careful around swimming pools (and, no, that's not due to spilled suntan lotion).
The reasons why we use hydrocarbon / silicon oils for lubrication stem from two other properties of water:
a) It evaporates easily
b) It's corrosive under certain cirumstances.No.
Thank you @darkmatter for finding that for me... I was only getting answers.com crap in my search.,
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Correct. New York added a $6 fee a few years back specifically so the inspector would check if the gas cap is on tight. Dripping fluids won't fail you, unless it's gasoline.
If there's enough oil dripping to fail an inspection, your car isn't going to be running for long.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
I would be careful with your correlation-causation-relationship.
And I'll be careful driving when the rain first starts.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Equally nice are the people parking second row in a street where stopping (not merely parking) is absolutely forbidden. And they usually think that turning on the warning flashers makes it all good.
You should stay out of Philadelphia.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
How much oil do your cars leak? And the hydrocarbons of asphalt are that stable that you usually have hell of a time to get them moving; i.e. you need around 500 °C. And there are virtually no short hydrocarbons left in asphalt.
I've driven the stretch of road ijij is referring to and there are enough cars that travel that way that a tiny amount from each car would be enough. You can believe what you want about the stability of hydrocarbons, but I know that the roads are more slippery in the first hour of rain.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Asphalt contains some oil, but cars drip oil all of the time. The first hour or so of rain will be much more slippery than the later part of a rainy day because the oil hasn't washed off of the road yet.