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Tuesday, August 7, 2007 at 9:44 AM i have one of those red gas cans and my car needs gas. now do i just pour it in hole into hole or do i have to do something special to make sure it actually gets in the tank? —stefanie |
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007 at 9:48 AM You should have a nozzle on the end of the gas can. Put the nozzle in the gas tank hole. Like the gas can is fucking the car's gas tank. —usman bello |
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007 at 1:15 PM You definitely need a nozzle, or push back that disc of metal that covers the hole, because otherwise..yeah. —chix0r |
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007 at 2:13 PM 1. procure a respectable quantity of styrofoam
2. add styrofoam to gasoline
3. stir styrofoam-gasoline mixture until styrofoam dissolves
4. drench car with mixture
5. set car on fire —Dark Laith |
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anobody |
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007 at 4:17 PM I've been told this also works with frozen orange juice. —anobody |
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Mayonnaise |
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007 at 8:35 PM I've always been told there's no such thing as a dumb question. You just killed that theory. —Mayonnaise |
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catloaf |
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 2:53 AM I just fell in love with Laith all over again. —catloaf |
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stefanie |
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 7:26 AM p.s. crush initiated make out sesh. thanks forum gods. —stefanie |
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Edited Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 12:12 PM 1. procure a respectable quantity of styrofoam
2. add styrofoam to gasoline
3. stir styrofoam-gasoline mixture until styrofoam dissolves
4. drench car with mixture
5. set car on fire lol I don't think it's a dumb question, I've been driving for about a year now, but just one month ago learned how to pump gas into the car. I actually had to go get the attendant dude, and...he happened to be in my English class. So embarrassing. —anfernee |
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 12:44 PM the first time i pumped gas by myself, i couldn't get the cap off and i kept pulling on it and this guy at the pump next to me saw me and came over to help and he just turned the knob and it came right off. that was fun. —mandeemoo22 |
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chix0r |
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 2:30 PM I practiced at home before I went to the gas station so that wouldn't happen. However, my mom makes me put gas in her car every week (even though I never drive it), and I forgot to put the cap back on once. —chix0r |
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Colin |
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 10:15 PM When I drove truck local and was home every night, I put anywhere from 40 to 80 gallons of diesel in the tank per day. Driving long haul, that increases to about 130 gallons per day. Every day. Some days was an extra 40 gallons just for the trailer that kept the strawberries at -10 F. Trekking across Nebraska in 105 degree heat the trailer never stopped running. If I had shrubs for a nursery, the trailer was kept at 50 F, so it ran part time. 
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anobody |
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 10:22 PM I always wonder how fuel consumption and emissions for those trucks compares with using diesel-electric trains. Seems like a no-brainer that the train should win by a long shot (and, for that matter, that tracks / trains probably need a lot less maintenance per ton of cargo than roads / trucks). That's not even considering the number of people required to drive all of those trucks versus a single train (assuming you didn't just automate the train). Why do I feel like an a-hole now? —anobody |
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 10:56 PM
Edited Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 10:56 PM Why do I feel like an a-hole now? —anobody 
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Colin |
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Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 1:05 AM Trains are a more efficient method for goods transport, but there are not tracks laid to every destination so trucks are still required. Last year a company built an enormous facility nearby that loads a set of rail cars leaving here in SE Washington going to upstate New York. They transport fresh produce for consumers back east. The trip takes 5 days, about the same as a truck. I once left central Washington on a Wednesday and delivered in New Jersey the next Monday. I only had 22 tons of produce, not even close to what a train can haul. A) Not enough train infrastructure to do what trucks do now.
B) No way to use trains to get the product to the final destination.
C) Lots of people would be out of work no longer driving truck. I found some interesting data here. It would appear that trains get about .13 mpg, whereas a truck averages close to 6 miles per gallon. Average miles for the year 2003 for a train was about 71,000 and long haul trucks almost always average 120,000 or more. Teams trucks ( driving almost non stop) can easily run 220,000 miles per year. —Colin |
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catloaf |
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Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 4:04 AM I've been driving for about a year now, but just one month ago learned how to pump gas into the car. I actually had to go get the attendant dude, and...he happened to be in my English class. So embarrassing.
—anfernee the first time i pumped gas by myself, i couldn't get the cap off and i kept pulling on it and this guy at the pump next to me saw me and came over to help and he just turned the knob and it came right off. that was fun.
—mandeemoo22 I practiced at home before I went to the gas station so that wouldn't happen. However, my mom makes me put gas in her car every week (even though I never drive it), and I forgot to put the cap back on once.
—chix0r Young people are so adorable. ;) —catloaf |
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Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 7:35 AM Trains are a more efficient method for goods transport, but there are not tracks laid to every destination so trucks are still required. That explains having local trucks, but not the long-distance ones. A) Not enough train infrastructure to do what trucks do now. That is easily remedied (and doing so would actually help with C). B) No way to use trains to get the product to the final destination. So move the containers onto trucks to do the last-mile transit (isn't that what standardized containers are for?). C) Lots of people would be out of work no longer driving truck. That is difficult, and I have no good answer for it (other than to say that doing something inefficient just to keep people employed is not necessarily a great plan). I found some interesting data here. It would appear that trains get about .13 mpg, whereas a truck averages close to 6 miles per gallon. That's 0.13 mpg for how many trucks worth of load? Actually... using those numbers (and assuming my math is right) that train would have to be able to replace something like 46 trucks just in order to break even. If that's right, that just seems insane. I don't normally pay attention to how long trains are, but 46 cars seems on the high end. I wish they would have put something more useful for comparison like mpg per ton of load. Such an obvious thing to ask, but when I tried Googling it, I came up empty. Average miles for the year 2003 for a train was about 71,000 and long haul trucks almost always average 120,000 or more. Teams trucks ( driving almost non stop) can easily run 220,000 miles per year.
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catloaf |
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Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 8:56 AM If a train leaves Chicago at 9:30 am traveling west at 57 miles an hour... —catloaf |
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Dark Laith |
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Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 10:29 AM And a nefarious villain has tied a helpless maiden to the tracks 3 miles east of Santa Fe... —Dark Laith |
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Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 10:43 AM but 46 cars seems on the high end. Freight trains can be over a mile long. FWIW I had a number of quotes to truck my furniture across the country (not from places like Mayflower, closer to freight). The best quote by a long shot was using a railroad car for the bulk of the mileage. They beat the best truck quote by about $700. Unfortunately the logistics of hiring trucks and movers at both ends to solve "the last mile problem" ate up most of the savings. I couldn't get a trustworthy customer review of the train option so I ended up using a truck. The Euros use a lot of electric trains to haul their freight and garbage. It's really something to see/envy when you're over there. When you consider the investment Germany and Denmark putting into solar power for the grid their ability to reduce their footprint is pretty amazing. —bguirk |
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Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 12:51 PM Guys, today I woke up and the underside of my eyes was all puffy and swollen. This never happens to me. Am I allergic to something? Is God punishing me? Help. —TortillaFactory |
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Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 5:29 PM i get spider bites on my eyelids a lot. —lexieho |
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plurry |
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Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 7:11 PM you're allergic to mike's sperm. —plurry |
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TortillaFactory |
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Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 8:01 PM OH FUCK. Well he's bringing me home some Alavert, so it's ok. You can print a four dollar coupon from their website! yay. —TortillaFactory |
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AbsolutCarib |
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Saturday, August 11, 2007 at 7:33 PM I figure this would be the best thread to ask this in... A few months ago....or maybe even last year? There was a thread with a vid in it of those two girls dancing to that song "Come on Barbie lets go party..." They were just lip synching it......anyone have any idea which thread that was in? Or where that video can be found? —AbsolutCarib |
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Saturday, August 11, 2007 at 7:45 PM Lol...I was looking for that vid because the I saw another one with a girl covering that same song, but the chick on the old vid posted here backin the day was much cuter.. —AbsolutCarib |
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