Things that don't deserve their own thread

[Jock42]

Slovak police caught a guy speeding on an e-scooter at 118 km/h (68 km/h over the speed limit) - genuine apparently and posted on their Facebook. In theory they should be speed limited but the trick is buying a legal one and modifying the firmware that blocks the speed under a limit. There are dubious shops that do this quickly

I'm not sure that's a good idea. I've seen someone faceplant on one of these fairly innocuously and even at low speed it was quite messy.

Well as long as they have an organ donor card, it's all good.

There was a youngster hit by some bellend on one here recently. Didn't get the job but sounded nasty enough when I spoke to the crew after.

[GogLais]

It’s electric, the motor provides braking when you come off the throttle. Still a very dumb idea.

Why do you think electric cars still have disc brakes?

Wot? The electric motor provides braking IN ADDITION to the wheel brakes. More than a combustion engine is capable of.

IC engine braking exists.

[GogLais]

Why do you think electric cars still have disc brakes?

Wot? The electric motor provides braking IN ADDITION to the wheel brakes. More than a combustion engine is capable of.

Yep, bellow a good explanation of “one pedal braking “,

One-pedal driving is possible due to the regenerative braking systems in electrified cars. When a PHEV or EV brakes, the electric motor acts as a generator, converting kinetic energy from the vehicle's forward motion into electricity. This electricity recharges the battery while the vehicle is braking. During this regenerative phase, the magnetic resistance of the electric motor increases and creates a braking force. This added friction in the drivetrain slows the vehicle down. One-pedal driving allows a driver to bring a vehicle to a full stop without using the brake pedal.

https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-g ... es-it-work

So maintaining a steady speed downhill will charge the battery then. It’s almost like perpetual motion.

[Biffer]

Some of Edinburgh Zoo's meerkats are being removed.

They're being taken to a new, specially built enclosure at the Edinburgh children's hospital. It's a joint initiative between the Zoo and the Hospital to give kids who are there long term an opportunity to experience nature and learn about the animals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-66163669

[Dinsdale Piranha]

Why do you think electric cars still have disc brakes?

Wot? The electric motor provides braking IN ADDITION to the wheel brakes. More than a combustion engine is capable of.

IC engine braking exists.

But if you want to use it to charge the battery you need an extra electric motor. EVs already have that so it's a no-brainer to implement. IIRC a friend had an IC car with regenerative braking some years ago and it was really quite shit.

[GogLais]

Wot? The electric motor provides braking IN ADDITION to the wheel brakes. More than a combustion engine is capable of.

IC engine braking exists.

But if you want to use it to charge the battery you need an extra electric motor. EVs already have that so it's a no-brainer to implement. IIRC a friend had an IC car with regenerative braking some years ago and it was really quite shit.

I was simply pointing out that IC engines are capable of engine braking. I run a simple petrol car at the moment, which is fine for my 7k or so miles a year. I get it that hybrids are a bit more efficient but the idea of lugging around all the bits you need for two separate means of propulsion grates on me.

[Dinsdale Piranha]

IC engine braking exists.

But if you want to use it to charge the battery you need an extra electric motor. EVs already have that so it's a no-brainer to implement. IIRC a friend had an IC car with regenerative braking some years ago and it was really quite shit.

I was simply pointing out that IC engines are capable of engine braking. I run a simple petrol car at the moment, which is fine for my 7k or so miles a year. I get it that hybrids are a bit more efficient but the idea of lugging around all the bits you need for two separate means of propulsion grates on me.

I engine brake all the time due to the rather shite brakes on my 1954 Beetle

[average joe]

You guys are complicating matters here. I wasn't commenting on whether EV's or ICE's are better. The point is that regenerative braking alone is not sufficient enough to bring to a stop something traveling at those speeds. This is why EV's still have disc brakes as well as regenerative braking.

Brakes are not only used to bring you to a stop over a clear straight distance. Sometimes you need to stop/decelerate quickly.

What happens when miss Paolicelli's little yorkie decides to just cross the road in front of him?

[Niegs]

[Uncle fester]

Check the first response. You'll need sound for both.

[Kiwias]

[Hal Jordan]

Took the kids into London to the Natural History Museum, we're all knackered and pizza has been ordered.

I had forgotten just how many appallingly young and vital people there are wandering about the capital city. I feel old, tired and ready for a paper bag over my head to save anyone from having to gaze upon the ravages of age.

[Sandstorm]

Took the kids into London to the Natural History Museum, we're all knackered and pizza has been ordered.

I had forgotten just how many appallingly young and vital people there are wandering about the capital city. I feel old, tired and ready for a paper bag over my head to save anyone from having to gaze upon the ravages of age.

[GogLais]

I had forgotten just how many appallingly young and vital people there are wandering about the capital city. I feel old, tired and ready for a paper bag over my head to save anyone from having to gaze upon the ravages of age.

Sounds like race day in Chester today.

[Happyhooker]

I was walking around Kensington yesterday and was appalled by the ravaged state of some of the tourists.

[TB63]

I'd happily be ravaged by some of those tourists..

[Raggs]

I blame NPR. Hurt my back at the gym yesterday, so now using my sit/stand desk in stand mode in the first time for a while (bad habits formed from a previous leg injury!). Never got around to getting the extra supports for my monitor though, so it's a bit wobbly whilst I type.

[Slick]

Could anyone tell me, without saying what happened, if there was any play in the cricket today?

Planning my night in front of the box and seeing if I need to include the highlights. Also, golf.

[Oxbow]

Could anyone tell me, without saying what happened, if there was any play in the cricket today?

Planning my night in front of the box and seeing if I need to include the highlights. Also, golf.

Yes, play started at 14.45 and at the moment they're still playing.

[Slick]

Could anyone tell me, without saying what happened, if there was any play in the cricket today?

Planning my night in front of the box and seeing if I need to include the highlights. Also, golf.

Yes, play started at 14.45 and at the moment they're still playing.

Thanks mate, much appreciated

[Sandstorm]

Could anyone tell me, without saying what happened, if there was any play in the cricket today?

Planning my night in front of the box and seeing if I need to include the highlights. Also, golf.

Yes, play started at 14.45 and at the moment they're still playing.

Thanks mate, much appreciated

30 overs of decent cricket today and counting….

[Slick]

Yes, play started at 14.45 and at the moment they're still playing.

Thanks mate, much appreciated

30 overs of decent cricket today and counting….

Gentleman

[Slick]

Were you cunts taking the piss? That was the dullest highlights package ive ever watched

[Sandstorm]

Were you cunts taking the piss? That was the dullest highlights package ive ever watched

Less dull than the golf.

[Uncle fester]

Could anyone tell me, without saying what happened, if there was any play in the cricket today?

Planning my night in front of the box and seeing if I need to include the highlights. Also, golf.

I cleared the old flaking paint off the pillars outside the house today and chucked on a coat of weather shield.
The paint needs 4 hours to dry. It got 2 before it got a natural power wash.

[shaggy]

After my dog walk at 6 this morning I returned to the football pitches and picked up over plastic water bottles that pretty much marked out the touch lines.

[Jim Lahey]

American Arsenal fans not happy with spending 100m on Declan Rice.

The big baldy lad's (with his arse hanging out) intervention is quality

[Guy Smiley]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/132416 ... -of-bodies

A Tauranga funeral home is facing fines of as much as $600,000 after operating a faulty cremator that left neighbouring homes, and the people inside them, “enveloped by smoke and ashes of dead bodies”.

Legacy Funeral Homes appeared on Monday at the Environment Court in Tauranga, after earlier pleading guilty to representative charges under the Resource Management Act over their crematorium smoke discharges.

They also pleaded guilty to representative charges of contravening abatement notices.


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She said her family home was right next to Legacy’s Pyes Pa operation, and her bedroom just 25 metres away from the crematorium stack.

“Our grim reality, dead bodies over our property.”

She said herself and her husband Matt Bear had bought into the family home, the place where she grew up, they were married, and it was where they intended to remain and raise their own family.

However, she said the experiences of living with the discharges had “tainted those memories”.

She also described the smell as something that “can’t be escaped or covered up”.

“The house that was meant to be a sanctuary now feels like a prison,” she said.

Bear also read a victim impact statement, telling the court it had shattered his physical and mental health.

He also said on one occasion as the house filled with the crematorium smoke, he vomited.

“Smoke and particle matter of dead bodies filled our home on many occasions,” he said.

“Personally enveloped by smoke and ashes of dead bodies. . . The smoke and ash from these dead bodies invaded my lungs, my body. I’m still trying to accept this.”

He also said he was deeply troubled on behalf of the whanau of the deceased, noting “loved ones’ ashes ended up in our property, my home, my lungs”.

He also slammed Legacy for what he said was complete disregard for them when they tried to raise their concerns.

“Legacy knew what was happening, and still continued to run this faulty equipment. . . even after we pleaded with them, and the regional council issued abatement notices,” he said.

“Our home and property have been desecrated. This is not hyperbole, it is literal desecration.”

Prosecutor Adam Hopkinson​ told the court there was “a unique element of offensiveness” about the case.

“What we’re dealing with here is the discharge of cremated smoke. . . human remains.”

[sockwithaticket]

American Arsenal fans not happy with spending 100m on Declan Rice.

The big baldy lad's (with his arse hanging out) intervention is quality

My main takeaways from that clip was the number of lardy people up for a scrap and how incredibly ineffective the stewards were.

[Jim Lahey]

American Arsenal fans not happy with spending 100m on Declan Rice.

The big baldy lad's (with his arse hanging out) intervention is quality

My main takeaways from that clip was the number of lardy people up for a scrap and how incredibly ineffective the stewards were.

Yeah, not one fuck given. Let the fatties wrestle until they tire thrmselves out (about 30 seconds).

The lad in the blue who invoked the rath of the baldy lad was throwing all sorts of punches in the background at the beginning, then sneaks round the crowd to chin the baldy lad at the end

[Niegs]

[Uncle fester]

American Arsenal fans not happy with spending 100m on Declan Rice.

The big baldy lad's (with his arse hanging out) intervention is quality

My main takeaways from that clip was the number of lardy people up for a scrap and how incredibly ineffective the stewards were.

Yeah, not one fuck given. Let the fatties wrestle until they tire thrmselves out (about 30 seconds).

The lad in the blue who invoked the rath of the baldy lad was throwing all sorts of punches in the background at the beginning, then sneaks round the crowd to chin the baldy lad at the end

I'm a little surprised that septic hooliganism is a thing.

[Jim Lahey]

They get surprisingly into it, but all forced, not natural.

I was over in Atlanta with work last year and went to a pub in Buckhead to watch the Ireland Italy 6N game on a Sunday around 10am, place was absolutely rammed as I think Liverpool v Chelsea was on at the same time. They knew all the songs, singing abuse about each other's teams, some handbags between rival supporters etc.

Just didn't feel right tbf. Its like they were really trying to hate each other, but the hatred just wasn't proper hatred. And it was at 10am in the morning ffs.

[Sandstorm]

Seppos? Half the blokes swearing at each other in that video have Sarf Laaandon accents.

[fishfoodie]

Given the recent movie release, it's a good time to link the one of the legendary Dick Feynman's lectures

In this one, he discusses how he ended up in Los Alamos, & generally how he was a awkward SOB while he was there

[Niegs]

[GogLais]

Why can’t I get on to NPR via home Wi-Fi but I can via mobile data or other people’s WiFi? I’ve tried switching on and off and everything else I can think of. Desperate for intellectual stimulation.

[ASMO]

Why can’t I get on to NPR via home Wi-Fi but I can via mobile data or other people’s WiFi? I’ve tried switching on and off and everything else I can think of. Desperate for intellectual stimulation.

What message are you getting? sounds like your local firewall might have it shitlilsted

[inactionman]

Captain Sir Tom Moore's offspring really are coming across as a bunch of entitled fuckits.

[url]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-b ... s-66336470[/url

They've built a home spa without approval and have been instructed to knock it down. Wondering if their generous 'salary' from the charity helped fund it.

[tabascoboy]

Hope none of these fall into the sea!

UK's first drone mail service begins in Orkney

Orkney has become the first location in the UK to have mail delivered by drone. The Orkney I-Port operation has been launched by Royal Mail and drone firm Skyports to distribute letters and parcels between the islands.

In partnership with the council's harbour authority and Loganair, mail will be transported from Royal Mail's Kirkwall delivery office to Stromness. From there, drones will carry items to Graemsay and Hoy where postal staff will complete their delivery routes.

While the service will initially operate for three months, it could be continued on a permanent basis under existing regulatory frameworks due to Orkney's unique landscape and the proximity of the islands to one another.

The drone service is expected to significantly improve service levels and delivery times to Graemsay and Hoy, as weather and geography can cause disruption to delivery services.

The use of electric drones for inter-island delivery will also bring significant safety improvements by ensuring postal workers can deliver between ports without risk.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... d-66340600