Originally posted by Bagpuss
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Are they of a similar octane to unleaded? Would be good to know in case the pumps run dry. -
even during the fuel crisis people did not notice the nossle is on a hose long enough to reach the far side of most cars. You still had people waiting in massive queues for a pump on the filler side
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That amazes me, how many people won't reach round, but sit in a queue...Originally posted by Bagpuss View Posteven during the fuel crisis people did not notice the nossle is on a hose long enough to reach the far side of most cars. You still had people waiting in massive queues for a pump on the filler sideComment
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FFS I'm going to start brewing my own biodiesel"Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon MuskComment
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Part of the explanation of rising prices is it's not so much petrol is rising in value as the pound sterling decreasing in value - something akin to the US dollar. Ergo, selling your labour for pounds sterling (or US dollars) is becoming increasingly foolish.Comment
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I tried it once in my car.That amazes me, how many people won't reach round, but sit in a queue...
I Yanked my hose all the way round the car, over the roof, down the other side, and I still couldn't reach the hole by 2 inches.
I had to mess around by backing up a bit, then going forward a bit more, so that the length of my hose would be a bit nearer to the hole.
I finally reached it (except I had to use my nozzle upside down and my hand ached all the time I was holding it). Has anyone ever worked out how to use the locking mechanism on the nozzle so it just gushes out without you having to squeeze your trigger ?
I then had some spillage when I pulled out, due to the upside-down angle plus I got a nice white shirt covered in muck from the black hose.
Seemed more hassle than it's worth.
More than happy to wait in a queue to avoid all that trouble again.
Besides, think of queuing as productive downtime. You can change the CD, fiddle with the dash (I found a new button last week that makes the headlights sort of go up and down), read the paper, chill out.)
If I've got to wait for the chap ahead of me to finish refueliing and then wander in the shop to get his lunch, paper and fags, then you can jolly well wait behind me as well. Neither of us are going anywhere are we ?Last edited by Board Game Geek; 26 September 2007, 23:17.Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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maybe it will help break the addiction to sitting in traffic jams all day then?Comment
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Long may that continue. I have two japanese cars with the filler on the left.Originally posted by Bagpuss View Posteven during the fuel crisis people did not notice the nossle is on a hose long enough to reach the far side of most cars. You still had people waiting in massive queues for a pump on the filler side
I've paid more than £1 per litre lots of times. What's everybody complaining about?Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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