Continuing Rant Thread - Get it Off Ya Chest here

[Kingy]

Phones, tv , computers, ipods pads wateva etc all useless **** time wasters really. Families go out for dinner to a restaurant to get on there phones and facebook or whatever. Beats me.

 

[spog]

Caller I D perhaps ?

 

[Camo6]

Q. Why is the time simultaneously displayed as both 12 and 24 hr clock on AHB (next to recent posts etc) ?

A. To expose the pedants.


Q. Currently it is 08.25 (ish) PM.... if you display the PM you don't need that first zero. Who's footing the bill for that unnecessary zero ?

A. I suspect pro membership is all for naught.


Q. Cam... thoughts ?

A. Occasionally.

 

[Tahoose]

Having alot of spare time in my working day allows me to study and further my position in my job( that lasted as far as I could progress).

My phone, small enough to fit in my pocket enabled me to learn how to brew, how to set up a draught beer system. How to drill stainless steel, wire up stc1000s and countless other things.

God I love the Internet, and my phone for that matter.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Why is the time simultaneously displayed as both 12 and 24 hr clock on AHB (next to recent posts etc) ?

Thats one thing I have not noticed up until now. You just ****** up my night. I had my OCD under control untill now

Currently it is 08.25 (ish) PM.... if you display the PM you don't need that first zero. Who's footing the bill for that unnecessary zero ?

Not me, thats for sure


Cam... thoughts ?

Thats a tough one.

Cam profile can drastically affect performance and characteristics of an engine

Big duration cams, say over 320-330* are very good for things like racing & drag cars where they are pulling 7-8000 rpm

If you want a motor that will have some real boogie, then look at something with about 260-290*

A nice street cruiser would go well with about 240-250*

My 750 Monster ( The last of the carb models.) has a cam duration of in 11/70 (261* ) ex 50/30 (260*)

But it is a short stroke motor so behaves a bit different to something like a 350 or 351 which have a much longer bore/stroke ratio

Short strokes tend to rev harder

There a lot of factors that come into Cam suggestions

You need to know how much your inlet system can flow, many people put to big a cam in a motor and turn it into a dog

Your best bet is to under cam your engine, you would be surprised that a smaller cam will actually be a better and more usable motor...

Personally..the old 30/70 grind works well in most motors with decent carbs, manifold & exhaust

 

[Blind Dog]

Why is the time simultaneously displayed as both 12 and 24 hr clock on AHB (next to recent posts etc) ?

Thats one thing I have not noticed up until now. You just ****** up my night. I had my OCD under control untill now

You mean CDO?

 

[Dave70]

And whilst you've reminded me (kind of) WTF write 1000 but 10,000? Seems to be an Aussie peculiarity

And also a prog metal / wiki peculiarity.

 

[mje1980]

Phones, tv , computers, ipods pads wateva etc all useless **** time wasters really. Families go out for dinner to a restaurant to get on there phones and facebook or whatever. Beats me.

I was at a restaurant a while ago and the table next to me was a family of 5. Youngest child maybe 10. All 5 of them sat in silence on their phones, for easily 10-15 mins while waiting for their food. Stunned

 

[TheWiggman]

The comma in numbers thing is not an Australian thing but predominantly a US thing, which of course many youth of today would immediately push to be a United States of Australian thing. It is also standard notation with finance, they will ALWAYS use it to separate all multiples of 1000. Except 1000 for keyboard warriors, as is tradition. The US like to make things easier by standardising everything (I mean standardize) to remove exceptions. With exceptions like 'surprise'.
For the boring amongst us in SI units, which is the norm, thousands are separated by a half-space rather than a comma. This does make it easier to read and makes us feel less like accountants which for me is a great thing (the latter more so than the former).
On the matter of commas, in most of non-English speaking Europe they use full stops to denote commas in numerical notation and vice versa. So when reading a number like 1024.4 it will be written 1.024,4. Can be as fun as it sounds when reading translated German drawings and manuals.

 

[Dave70]

Why do Americans persist with persist with archaic imperial measurement if they like to make things easier?
Every time I have convert a recipe it feels like a backhanded slap in my metric face.

I concede pouring a 40oz to your fallen hommies has a cooler ring to it than pouring a 1.33kg. But thats it.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Dunno....but 6 inches sounds more impressive than 13cm

 

[Bridges]

6 inches equals 15.24 centimetres when I measure it. Gotta make every centimetre count!

 

[Lincoln2]

That's girth obviously.

 

[sponge]

If only..

We can't all be Ron Jeremy

 

[mckenry]

Why do Americans persist with persist with archaic imperial measurement if they like to make things easier?
Every time I have convert a recipe it feels like a backhanded slap in my metric face.

I concede pouring a 40oz to your fallen hommies has a cooler ring to it than pouring a 1.33kg. But thats it.

Shouldnt it be litres we're comparing? I reckon "Pouring a litre for fallen mates" is cooler.

 

[Danwood]

Why is the time simultaneously displayed as both 12 and 24 hr clock on AHB (next to recent posts etc) ?

Currently it is 08.25 (ish) PM.... if you display the PM you don't need that first zero. Who's footing the bill for that unnecessary zero ?

Cam... thoughts ?

Well, that escalated quickly.

 

[Dave70]

Dunno....but 6 inches sounds more impressive than 13cm

You just need to French it up a but. A 113 grammer with cheese? No way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYSt8K8VP6k

6 inches equals 15.24 centimetres when I measure it. Gotta make every centimetre count!

Yep. Thats why I generally round it off to the nearest three inches (7.62cm..)

{edit - 113, not 454 grams in a quarter of a pound..no wonder my drug dealing business went broke.}

 

[michaeld16]

Dunno....but 6 inches sounds more impressive than 13cm

300mm is less intimidating for her than 12 inches

 

[wide eyed and legless]

What is more annoying is employing both the imperial and metric system in the same sentence, 'He stood about 6' 10" and weighed in at 140 kg' I have noticed this system being used many times. Or saying 152 mm or 6 inches in the old measurement why do we even have to refer to the 'old measurement'.

 

[Camo6]

Worse again when the US decide to build their cars with both imperial and metric fasteners so you're constantly changing tools or scraping knuckles. Not to mention the Ford wiring diagrams we used to be issued where component locations were labelled drivers and passenger side and contained a combination of LH and RH drive information. Seriously, just call it LHS or RHS!