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Cugel the Clever posted:Worked for a lady a few years back who one day gathered up all the employees to regale upon us the importance of attaching "deer whistles" to our cars to not get hit by deer. She even handed the things out to everyone, explaining that she hasn't once been hit by a deer since she's had one. Bear patrol works 
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Goober Peas posted:They were sold As-seen-on-TV before that. And in JC Whitney before that. It's kinda fun to see things like that pop up in a new place every few years. My mom gave me a set a while back with that As-seen-on-TV branding, Lord knows where she got them. I didn't put them on, I figured they're either not going to work, or they'll spook a deer just chilling in a ditch to run right out into traffic just as much as they'd frighten them off. Fortunately, they had like a $6 price tag on them, so at least she's not out much for them.
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Jul 22, 2018 05:41
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Australia used to sell the ultrasonic shoo-roos/shuroo/generic "animal whistler". The cheapos were just a air/wind powered whistle but the pricier ones were battery powered ultrasonic sirens. They used to have a similar thing for your home to plug in and annoy mice, rats and pests back in the 80s/90s too.
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Jul 22, 2018 11:18
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Fo3 posted:They used to have a similar thing for your home to plug in and annoy mice, rats and pests back in the 80s/90s too. It's also used to discourage teenagers from hanging around in particular places.
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u brexit ukip it posted:It's also used to discourage teenagers from hanging around in particular places. Taco Bell did that back then 30 years ago. They'd just set their restaurants to like 50F to keep people from loitering. Deer whistles, Slick 50, and if IIRC the Vornado (was some vane device you threw into your intake to create more laminar airflow) were also great options. Any modern car now, trying to tack on deer whistles they would be perpendicular to the road.
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u brexit ukip it posted:It's also used to discourage teenagers from hanging around in particular places. That was called the "mosquito" and wasn't popular here because it affected the babies, toddlers and kids that parents were taking with them while shopping. Opera and classical music got a good playing though.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Deer whistles, Slick 50, and if IIRC the Vornado (was some vane device you threw into your intake to create more laminar airflow) were also great options. The Tornado Fuel Saver was a holy device that would give a man up to 15% improved performance alongside a tune-up on a neglected car.
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Ripoff posted:The Tornado Fuel Saver was a holy device that would give a man up to 15% improved performance alongside a tune-up on a neglected car. As an auto tech, I have seen more than a few of those. I used to have a pic of a random car that had purpose built magnets wrapped around many hoses and the air intake tube. If I can dig it out of my personal digital archives, I will post it.
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Flint Ironstag posted:As an auto tech, I have seen more than a few of those. I used to have a pic of a random car that had purpose built magnets wrapped around many hoses and the air intake tube. If I can dig it out of my personal digital archives, I will post it. There was a guy I knew in the late 60s who made a section of his fuel line a coil of copper pipe inside a tin can. He'd fill the can with ice before every 1/4 run. I suppose it made the fuel a little more dense, but dunno if it really made .001 seconds diff. 
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Jul 23, 2018 01:02
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dee eight posted:There was a guy I knew in the late 60s who made a section of his fuel line a coil of copper pipe inside a tin can. He'd fill the can with ice before every 1/4 run. I suppose it made the fuel a little more dense, but dunno if it really made .001 seconds diff. Drag racing, I presume? Drag racers throughout the decades have used ice to cool down intakes and intercoolers between runs. While that method seems to have low benefits, all racers have tried things to gain any, however tiny, edge. (Not me of course, Mr Tech Inspector. All my stuff is clean. Honest.) But, ice to cool the intake charge is one thing. Magnets wrapped around your radiator hoses seems a bit like snake oil sold to a sucker, to me.
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I have one of those magnet things, some nutjob gave it to me about 20 years ago. It's just magnets covered in epoxy. 
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Colostomy Bag posted:Slick 50 I'm not sure if that's a selling point. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Jul 23, 2018 |
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Flint Ironstag posted:Drag racing, I presume? Drag racers throughout the decades have used ice to cool down intakes and intercoolers between runs. While that method seems to have low benefits, all racers have tried things to gain any, however tiny, edge. (Not me of course, Mr Tech Inspector. All my stuff is clean. Honest.) Oh yeah the magnets thing is totally just that. Just something sold to people who have no idea what magnets are or do, just that they work by "invisible forces".
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dee eight posted:There was a guy I knew in the late 60s who made a section of his fuel line a coil of copper pipe inside a tin can. He'd fill the can with ice before every 1/4 run. I suppose it made the fuel a little more dense, but dunno if it really made .001 seconds diff. Should’ve done the math and showed him what time penalty for the added weight was. Probably evens things out.
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Fo3 posted:Australia used to sell the ultrasonic shoo-roos/shuroo/generic "animal whistler". The cheapos were just a air/wind powered whistle but the pricier ones were battery powered ultrasonic sirens. They used to have a similar thing for your home to plug in and annoy mice, rats and pests back in the 80s/90s too. I had a mate ages ago who worked maintenance for a big shipping company with giant warehouses which would get loving infested with rats on the regular. The company didn't really care about rats, even they can't to much to a shipping container. But rats mean snakes and having your people harassed by death adders and tiger snakes is bad for business. Not too bloody good for the staff either. So the company paid him to go out and buy dozens of those "repellents" and hook them up in a fish tank with rats from a pet store and watch the rats' reactions. He even built a bunch from parts himself. They never gave a poo poo about any of them. Which shouldn't be surprising, they're rats. They piss on themselves and eat electrical wiring for fun. They live in sewers and in the worst places imaginable. If they were bothered by noise someone would have figured that out decades ago and every building would be fitted with giant high frequency speakers.
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I wish everyone on the road had brakes this good.
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Jul 23, 2018 13:58
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Why would I need to strap 'er to the trailer? She's good 'n' heavy - not going anywhere.
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New dash cam Australia up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emj53D8R2CM&t=34s
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Jul 24, 2018 01:44
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ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
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Going to need a bigger tow truck.
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Fo3 posted:Someone is pimping that in a bmw forum right now, it's called xcelplus now. They claim it's not like the bad slick 50 from the 90s, it's the real old slick 50 from back in the MLM days pre 1984. You have got to be kidding.
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I don't know, that looks like s successful boat launch to me.
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Jul 24, 2018 03:13
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Sometimes when I'm out kayaking on the lake I'll just hang out around dinner time near one of the busy boat launches to see how badly people can gently caress up backing up 20' and launching a small boat. It's amazingly good fun.
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Why can't I stop laughing at this? Basic physics should not supply this level of mirth.
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It's a really good gif and Australians are really good at saying cusses and people driving dump trucks with the bed set to DUMP are the best. Quality page people
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Phanatic posted:ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED I've seen less damage after an EF4 hit my area.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgeBYCts2_k
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welp <unzips>
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buttcrackmenace posted:welp Wow cool reddit joke, all my 5s
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I knew where this was going as soon as I saw the first frame. I wouldn't be able to resist the urge to do that if I had the chance.
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PT6A posted:Isn't 0.4 basically an "you are likely to die" level of intoxication? How do you even operate a car at that point? Not if you're a pro. patient I saw last shift had a BAL of 473, ~1-2 hrs after EMS picked her up. Another dude was in 380s-390s and honestly didn't even really appear terrible intoxicated. re: DUIs, I've heard from my conversations with many LEOs in the ER that lots of drunk drivers will rack up 2-3 charges before they ever actually see a judge for the initial offense. Even though the cops can take their license, they still can get behind the wheel. The whole thing is kind of enraging because I've seen a lot of human hamburger and it's hosed up and not cool. Here in Denver the drivers are loving miserable too so I take it personally. I've been rear ended 3x in the 3 years I've lived here, most recently culminating in the total loss of my old RAV4. Not cool. Kommienzuspadt fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jul 25, 2018 |
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Could you start euthanising the DUIs that come in? As a sort of prophylactic measure. Thanks in advance
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Kommienzuspadt posted:I've seen a lot of human hamburger Dunno which is better, this or meat crayon.
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Grakkus posted:Could you start euthanising the DUIs that come in? As a sort of prophylactic measure. Thanks in advance Or just start doing appendectomies to keep them out of commission for a while. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638389/
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The GPS nav you share the road with: gently caress how turn by turn instructions handle roundabouts. "In 400 meters at the roundabout, take the second exit." 10 seconds later, "at the roundabout take the second exit" Exit roundabout, "in 400 meters at the roundabout, take the second exit." I like roundabouts for actual driving and traffic flow but they can gently caress off for this. If you're driving through a town it's nonstop roundabout instructions.
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xzzy posted:The GPS nav you share the road with: gently caress how turn by turn instructions handle roundabouts. This, but add in merging from one highway to another. In 800 feet take the I-495 exit. Take the I-495 exit. In 800 feet merge onto I-495. Merge onto I-495. Follow I-495 for 13 miles. Do the majority of people really need the directions in between Take the exit and Follow the new road for X miles? I guess my beef is that I listen to mostly talk radio through my phone which also supplies my directions and 5 interruptions within a minute for the one or two odd times it happens during a trip is too much interruption for me.
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Gets even better if you have street names enabled.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Gets even better if you have street names enabled. How not to cycle.. and in a few cases, how not to drive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PQwMcWg0rE
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