Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

TV ads for car repair insurance seem pretty frequent now. Cars last so long now it's hardly worthwhile if it ever was.

Not everything in the house. It was all over the attic, and in truth, I'm not positive it was still connected. I should ask my friend about that too.

Ah. A lof of safety enforcement is done by insurance companies that is not covered by government regulation. Is that true in Spain and Europe too?

I use the numpad even to type a 4 digit number. So much faster, easier, and more accurate.

That involved other people.

WTF is that meant to mean?

You don't need to remember anything, you move the stick the same way you're turning the wheel!!!

Never ever say "offside". I don't know which side of the road you drive on, so that's utterly meaningless. Left or right is universal.

Never thought of that. Although I can't say changing gear or indicating take that long, so one can be done after the other. The only time I get annoyed is when the stupid thing cancels on a roundabout and I have to engage it three f****ng times. Then again we should all be driving automatics, manuals are an unnecessary extra.

I assumed the convention was they were on the (centre of the car) side of the wheel. I've only driven a left hand drive once, and I didn't notice the indicator being "wrong" for me.

It's never anticlockwise to turn right. At least you didn't say that horrid word "counterclockwise", which sounds even worse with a Merkin accent missing out the T.

I didn't know we ever had it on the wrong side. Strangely the only time I came across this problem was my boss driving a company car with me as a passenger. The company car had the indicator on the left, he turned on the wipers and claimed his car had the indicators on the right. But he had a 1995 Ford Focus. I doubt that was still backwards, since my 1990 Ford Sierra had them on the left. Maybe he was remembering an older car he used to own. I've never owned anything pre-1988.

I turn the wipers faster instead of off. My stupid Renault has up for faster. Never seen a wiper stalk work that way in a car.

I drove my neighbour's Rover 75 for her when she was ill, and I couldn't find the headlights on the stalk. It was a seperate switch on the dashboard, which I couldn't find since it didn't even have a timer on the interior light, so I was in pitch black as soon as I closed the door!

My favourite sports car is a Triumph TR7.

I had to look it up.

I've never seen it here. Maybe, just maybe, something related from before I was born. But we don't build houses with wood, like in the photos. All brick, mortar, stone, concrete.

No, the insurance company doesn't ask details about my house.

I learned when I got to usenet that it was a violation of netiquette to remove newsgroups from a distribution list.

While the immediate poster P may want his reply to go only to some groups, those who follow after him F may want posters earlier than P to see F's posts, and may not notice that ngs have been removed.

Figures.

The Spitfires were rolling traffic hazards but they weren't completely ugly. The best feature was the forward hinged bonnet so you could sit on a tire while trying to figure out what was wrong with the engine.

What's really depressing is my Toyota econobox could outrun most of the vintage British sports cars.

I had one phone that I'd decorated with acrylic paint in a bored moment. I got a strange look when I handed it in at the phone store but I imagine they got phones back in worse shape. It really wasn't a good idea to attach a convenient hammer to something as likely to piss a person off as a phone. Those old Bakelite handsets had heft to them.

Bullshit.

Citation, or it didn't happen.

Cost, and benefits, all listed, and the chemical identified.

... and new grass blades aren't the same color as older ones. But they're both called by the same name.

Oh, there's a separate word for 'wave' and 'tsunami' in English. But, probably it used to be 'wave and 'tidal wave' (i.e. no English word for it).

and consider Australian sundials

and a design for sundials for any hemisphere

You could thread one end 20 per inch, and the other 40 per inch. 20 turns gains or shrinks by half an inch.