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

They are *now*. Can't you follow the etymology I have outlined above?

Meaning evolve...

Do you remember the fuss some people (mainly women) made about the green licence showing their DoB? They moved it to the corner with a diagonal dashed line so they could cut it off. Then people worked out that everyone's DoB is encoded in the number part of the "driver number" You just have to shuffle the digits around a bit. It also codes whether you are male or female. (I don't know whether trannies can change this part.)

In Scotland, there can be no stopping bicycles. I can walk, run, cycle, swim, and canoe anywhere I like. It's called freedom and you guys should try it.

Ebikes magically cause more harm?

We have some annoying ones that flash in green if you're going the "correct" speed.

I like making it say limit 30, your speed 60, and a frowning face. It's amazing how many people think those things actually do you for speeding.

I once saw a digger going along the road at 5mph. A pig aimed his radar gun at it, then beckoned for him to speed up.

Things feel slower to me when they have better control. Two cars the same size, if one has better handling it feels slower at the same speed. I guess it's the automatic limiter inside you to stay away from the losing control point.

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Yes, I've ended up going f****ng slowly across a junction and pissing off drivers while I crunch through the gears. Derailer gears are s*it - the whole concept of shoving a chain off and hoping it catches the next cog is pure insanity.

I've had it come off both, either by it not being perfectly tuned (and it keeps going out of tune), or by a stick entering the mechanism if off road.

I find cocking my leg higher is asking to lose balance.

However I have an aluminium frame (wehey no rust!) mountain bike with full suspension which only has one bar, low down. Not sure if all full suspension bikes are like that.

What about a torque converter?

We need legs as good as a motor.

I've always had mountain bikes, and I find I can't add much power after 23mph.

So you were going 33 then.

Interesting. I wonder who decided that was the modern Greek palette. I was thinking of the color schemes that show up in photos of Greece.

"Well, that has to do with cost. After painting their boat, the fishers and other sailors painted their windows and shutters with whatever was leftover. And because of the elements used to create it, blue was usually the cheapest paint color. "

It may be sort of an elitist thing. e-bikes may allow the physically unfit to clutter up the trails. Mens sana in corpore sano cuts both ways and the mens often is unfit also.

The same thing is seen with quad ATVs versus dirt bikes. It takes some skill to ride a bike off road where a quad isn't particularly challenging. Plus a quad allows you to carry a chainsaw to cut down offending trees and a cooler full of beer. Definitely déclassé.

Mtn. bikes in general can be a problem if an idiot is aboard. This time of year the trails are muddy. Riding a bike on them creates a V-shaped erosion pattern that very difficult to walk on. Luckily there aren't too many idiots in this area.

Your brain presumably just thinks up what they should all look like. The only one that seems weird is red and blue making something similar to indigo/violet, which is the other side of blue to red in the spectrum. Looking at ultraviolet is weird. They claim we can't see it, but I can feel it. Maybe I'm feeling it burning my eyes.

The sun produces violet and ultraviolet, so why are you confused?

My parrots can see UV clearly, I have UV bulbs because apparently it makes their feather colours look better to their eyes, so they're happier and more randy.

Never believe the internet. I go by real life and my own experiences. If it was 1 in 12, we'd all know loads of them. The internet is biassed because pages about colour blindness are written by people wanting to claim it as a disability, and an excuse for running red lights.

I'd say I've known (in my 47 years) 250 people well enough for them to have told me about their colour blindness. 1 in 250 is not 1 in 12.

People tend to mention it, especially when they do something embarassing because of their defect.

Are you saying asians have better eyesight? They certainly seem more advanced than us in most ways.

This says it's RGB:

More likely everyone's eye is different and without actually dismantling your eye we can't tell. It would explain why some people say colours "clash" and others don't. Or maybe that's just women being stupid, a man never says a colour clashes - how could it? They're just different colours. They don't react with each other like chemicals in a test tube!

Not here, maybe varies per country.

Except if you ask them to show off their t*ts, they won't take it as a compliment. Have you ever known a guy say "how dare you want to see my penis!"?

Look at this graph:

Think about what colours on that graph are the most prominent. I see 5. Purple, blue, green, yellow, red. So I'd say either:

We have 5 cones, purple, blue, green, yellow, red - but I'm sure doctors would notice we had 5.

We have 3 cones, purple, green, red. The 5 vivid colours I mentioned above are when we either see it mostly with one cone, or equally with 2 cones.

Having cones where the graph shows them doesn't make any sense.

Well he doesn't get much choice in who he treats, be that the person who caused the s accident or the innocent ones affected.

I know a police man they just love those calls when they have to tell the wife that their husband, daughter, son, relative won't be coming home ever again.

Jesus Christ. So your a scaly skinned lizard then?, whoda thunk that!...

Got any children there at all?. Hope not.

Well all that non conductive water is in plastic pipes and taps then;?..

Christ sakes have you ever had your hand round a rung of a metal ladder in soft earth and the other hand around a metal cased drill? Course with your scaly skin that wouldn't be a problem then;?..

Here in the UK, if there are really no incoming underground metal pipes and the incoming mains cable isn't metal clad and underground I believe a long copper rod has to be hammered into the ground to make an earth (US: ground) connection.

Surely the main, most important, point is what would happen if the earth/neutral wire got disconnected at some point outside the home while the live remained connected.

No, just different tastes in colors maybe.

There are known group genetic differences in food tastes and things like alcohol and lactose metabolism. And tested IQ. It's politically incorrect to mention racial genetics these days, a disservice to people who might get better medical care if we took everything into account.