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

They'll be making it illegal to shout in a certain register next.

Good point, it did look like a nice thick steel plate.

A switch doesn't cost much. Surely if you tune out, you get hiss.

So they couldn't explain the difference in colour of a lettuce and the sky? WTF?

Sure it is. It's just that you're used to it so it doesn't strike you.

I know nothing about Blair. Linda Blair? ;-)

That's not the actual choice.

Exactly. It's weird that they survived for so long without words to differentiate colours which most of use see as being different. The various colours at the blue end of the rainbow (blue, indigo, violet) are not as easy to differentiate, and I can understand *those* being thought of as various shades of blue, but red, orange, yellow, green, blue are all colours that are fairly distinct and deserve individual names.

It is in fact much more complicated than that.

In fact they did.

That question shall go unanswered because I don't live there anymore, and I didn't think to ask a real Mexican while I was there.

"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"

I smell bullshit. The ancient Greeks supposedly couldn't see blue because there was no word recognized as 'blue' in extant texts. The white statues furthered the idea until someone noticed the very colorful paint jobs had worn off a couple of thousand years ago.

No more difficult than a factory which makes 40/60/100/150 watt bulbs.

Surely you could add more bulbs without them knowing? And what about non-bulb things?

Easy enough to have a tapping on the element to change voltage with a switch. I have a travel iron which puts the elements in series or parallel depending on the voltage you select, so you get the same power output.

That'll be Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the UK.

Be careful of that "most of us".

Almost everyone can tell blue from red or green. Telling red from green though affects about 1 in 12 men in the UK (other races may vary).

Andy

Sounds like a good way to annoy a neighbour you hate and prevent them listening to the radio station you don't like.

Vote Libertarian - one of their policies is "the right to revenge".

What no buck convertors?

Tapping the brake means "there's a cop ahead, do not overtake me".

The one I hit didn't. It was too busy chasing the females. It didn't stand a chance at 90mph, especially when the canoe on the roof sliced it in half.

Keeping distances is boring.

And actually if you sit 6 inches behind someone, you're effectively the same vehicle, the impact speed between you won't be very great.

Should know better. You couldn't have stopped. Remove them form the gene pool.

I did once do an emergency stop for a dog. The girl chasing after it was very thankful.

Potholes have the same effect as speedbumps, why not combine the two ideas?

At the school I worked at, someone dropped a small rock in front of a truck from a bridge. The driver got out, chased them, dragged them to the school, and made them pay for the windscreen.

I once came across a fork in the road. No, an actual fork. A garden fork. I of course stopped and gave it a good home!

It's the morons that join these silly OCD clubs like the Institute of Advanced Motoring. They actually believe you should always go exactly at the speed limit.