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How do you safely deflate them? Driving over a spike strip?
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This obviously calls for a LASER.
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May 8, 2014 18:00
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FatCow posted:I'm not entirely sure my city is aware of how much mechanical energy is being stored in that building. The equivalent of forty‐two kilograms of TNT.
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Jul 25, 2014 06:25
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Cartoon posted:tl;dr You'd have to be in an advanced state of paranoia to think that this was critical structural damage. That’s a bit strong. The Skagit river bridge collapsed under similar circumstances. What was a critical member in that bridge is not in this one.
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Aug 6, 2014 01:14
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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:Hope your car takes regular! It does now.
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Sep 1, 2014 22:18
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Yeah, you’re not supposed to look at the screen exclusively. You’re supposed to glance at it to see if there’s anything in your blind spot. Complaining that it shouldn’t exist is like complaining that mirrors shouldn’t exist because people will use them instead of turning their heads.
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Sep 10, 2014 04:54
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Seat Safety Switch posted:More of a horrible craftsmanship failure, but It’s the welding equivalent of “If you can’t tie a knot, tie a lot.”
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Dec 11, 2014 17:02
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Beach Bum posted:What IS that thing? It used to be a crane on the bulk carrier Seapace.
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Dec 15, 2014 12:53
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Munin posted:Didn't a guy doing a safety demonstration hurl himself off a building a few years back when the safety glass he was demonstrating the solidity of failed? You’re probably thinking of Gary Hoy, a Toronto lawyer.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:47
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Wasabi the J posted:Was that Canada? Mike Holmes is gonna have a field day with this code violation... As a matter of fact it was.
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Dec 16, 2014 22:37
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I wonder how well the Fiat Multipla would have sold in the U.S..
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The PT Cruiser’s tiny rear window is no accident. Chrysler’s consultant, anthropologist Clotaire Rapaille, told them that large windows make people feel exposed and vulnerable. That wouldn’t do, so the PT Cruiser got a window the size of a peephole. This is presented in marketing circles as a success story. e: citation Platystemon fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Feb 6, 2015 |
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Feb 6, 2015 19:58
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8ender posted:I saw a lot of VAG cars from their super lovely period in the late nineties down there and I have no idea what magic they're using to keep those cars running longer and more reliably than they do in North America Fugitive Nazis.
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Feb 24, 2015 11:12
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some texas redneck posted:Done that. The city won't take them. Some manufacturers accept them via mail. The NRC used to require this, apparently it no longer does.
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SouthsideSaint posted:How do you know all those laborers are ex race car drivers. Its rude of you to assume. How rude of you to assume they’re race car drivers. They’re clearly air racers.
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May 6, 2015 16:45
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What are the advantages of frameless windows? Aside from their obvious use on convertibles.
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Jun 2, 2015 16:51
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Did someone say “flames”?
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Jun 29, 2015 19:55
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Question: does the oval speedometer actually point to speeds properly or does it just rotate linearly with speed like a circular one would? It looks to me like the numbers have consistent angular spacing, so the needle can turn the same as it would on a circular speedometer.
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Aug 2, 2015 04:43
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Number 1 Sexy Dad posted:But a wind sock tells direction and speed. A vane only shows direction. How is a weather vane better than a wind sock? This is important The weather vane has an anemometer attached. Problem solved.
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Aug 3, 2015 01:05
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sirbeefalot posted:I guess you'd balance that by eye, or...? Just pour some BBs inside. It’ll balance itself.
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Aug 8, 2015 05:16
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I think SCUBA tanks win. Their pressure is nearly as high (240 bar, 3500 psi), but they’re comparatively huge.
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Godholio posted:Edit: For me, at the end of the day it's about a 2-second habit that cuts off any chance - no matter how remote - that someday I could have problems. By the time I die I'll have wasted more of my life trying to figure out if I'm really about to sneeze or not than I will have by setting/releasing the parking brake. Have a foot‐operated brake; waste no time at all by releasing/setting the brake at the same time you fasten/unfasten your seatbelt.
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torpedan posted:I can't be the only one who sees a spider on the rag? Right? From the awful architecture thread:  
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Which actually occurred in new mexico while they were at Los Alamos if I am remembering correctly. On the way to the hospital for the final time he got three flat tires, and one on the way back. Los Alamos–Albuquerque is a trip of about 100 miles, and I’ve wondered if there was some factor explaining all those flats (substandard materials due to war rationing?) or it it was just coincidence.
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Nov 18, 2015 04:18
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Mercury Ballistic posted:There is a sea story of a bunch of stowaways who were killed when the chain departing the chain locker they were hiding shredded them. Sea story though so ... Chains lockers are terrible places to stow away for a subtler reason. There’s a lot of steel rusting in a confined space, so much that it can dangerously deplete the oxygen concentration in the air. You won’t feel stuffy because there’s no CO2 build‐up. You’ll just pass out and die.
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Nov 25, 2015 02:48
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sharkytm posted:That is an amazing poster. I'm a fan of "Makes the sperm unable to find the egg"... No bueno. “Mouse pheremone” is coincidentally the name of my new band. I also like “armpits (when 3‐methylated)”. Don’t we all know that smell.
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Dec 6, 2015 14:37
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Seat Safety Switch posted:People do that here all the time. They use red tuck tape. Amazon carries multiple brands of adhesive‐backed red vinyl for “emergency” tail light repair.
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Godholio posted:Goddamn, that is the ugliest dash I've ever seen. It’s got nothing on the Multipla’s (just as ugly on the outside if you’re not familiar with it):  kastein posted:Depends. It's actually still legal to use asbestos in some products, as far as I know*. No sane company does since it's terrible publicity. IIRC a court struck down most of the ban in the early ’90s so the only thing stopping asbestos 2: electric boogaloo is  .
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Jan 6, 2016 00:29
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How is the Lamborghini not dead as of the end of this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWedR5R3OW8
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Jan 7, 2016 17:33
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I converted the video to GIF. You can embed webm/gfy now. 
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http://i.imgur.com/HUAsypy.gifv Bad cat
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 The unit switch on the boiling/freezing point is a masterstroke.
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This is my favourite Lowe quote, from Things I Won’t Work With: Chalcogen Polyazides.quote:Ranking my equipment in terms of its shrapneliferousness is not something that’s ever occurred to me, I have to say. It’s safe to assume that any procedure which involves considering which parts of the apparatus I’d prefer to have flying past me will not get much business in my lab, no matter how dashing I might look in a leather suit.
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 But all the other cars were parked there. It looked so safe. (Ice, not tide.)
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Throatwarbler posted:120 accidents and 30 injuries from people running over themselves because their Chrysler gearshift is too confusing. In this particular case, the interface is poorly designed. At the same time, the drivers’ failure is why we can’t have nice things, like EVs that don’t “creep” like a 19‐goddamn‐40 Hydra‐Matic®.
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Boat posted:Toyota figured it out, A button they put way too close to the air vent in some models. I accidentally hit it the other night while travelling down the highway and trying to adjust the vent. All it does while moving is put it in neutral, though.
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netwerk23 posted:Couldn't we simplify it to a lever with three states - middle for park, forward for go and backwards for reverse? I doubt most people care/need 1 or 2 or Lo or whatever. You could make the gear handle a tiny car to visually represent it, push the car forward and it goes forward. Pull it to the middle to stop and park it. Pull it back to reverse. Seems easy. Neutral is a legal requirement. Low is rarely necessary, but when it is you really want to have it.
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