Pigface - Member
Getting into a car and being able to tell which side the fuel filler is on by looking at the instruments.
How? How how how???
It wasn't until university that I found out Ireland was independent (that was a funny conversation with an Irish girl). So much for my Geography A-level.
[quote=shermer75 ]Pigface - Member
Getting into a car and being able to tell which side the fuel filler is on by looking at the instruments.
How? How how how???
Little arrow on the fuel icon or the side the fuel icon is on
Ooh, didn't know that one!
The man behind Trebor was called Robert.
Not quite Mike, also what side of the fuel icon the hose is on if there isnt an arrow.
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound
Yes.
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Little arrow on the fuel icon or the side the fuel icon is on
Except it isn't, sorry.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/fuel-tank-filler-icon-secret.shtml
Girls. For years I had the "pussy on a pedestal" complex as mentioned in 40 Year Old Virgin. I look back at all the missed opportunities and it makes me a bit sad. It's only really this year I've started to make sense of it all and realise they're just people 😆
Graham... my shoelaces are now balanced.
argoose - Member
But its written as a double "v"
It's called a double v in french though. Stupid foreigners.
"Cotic" took me far longer than it ought.
OK i give in what does it mean?
Well, clearly the man behind the company was called Citoc, d'uh.
Following the theme, Esso = SO (Standard Oil)
Except it isn't, sorry.
It is on Fords - they have a little arrow on the symbol for the petrol gauge (i.e. not just which side the pump handle is on as suggested on hoax slayer).
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In fact hoax slayer say as much at the end of their article : [i]"many modern cars do have an indicator incorporated into the fuel gauge.. generally a small arrow"[/i]
Graham... my shoelaces are now balanced.
😀 Your life is now complete.
Decathlon's bike brand : B'Twin
because bikes go [i]between[/i] your legs (say "B'Twin" in a French accent and it kind of works)
I had an accidental epiphany moment when I learned you can zoom <In any windows page> by holding down control and scrolling with the mouse.
Bugger me !
ok - so until this thread I didn't know
Jonelle
Kaffenback (quite like this one now I know)
Emmelle (although just the name sends shudders due to bike build memories from being an lbs mechanic)
Esso
Like Graham S, I also only recently realised that a shoelace bow was meant to be a quick release reef knot, but I was tying a quick release granny knot. But I haven't been able to adjust my habit on that one.
I did work out Q8 though!
It's called a double v in french though. Stupid foreigners
And them Germans pronounce it 'dooble vay' too ...
Kaffenback
Ah, but do you know why the Uncle John got its name?
Watching Blue Peter as a kid…. I never once built a "Tracy Island" or whatever their little projects were, because I never knew what... sticky backed plastic was 😯
Why? Oh why, did they just not say SELLOTAPE..... branding/advertising be damned... I feel robbed 👿
AlexSimon: it took me a while to adjust, but I found switching from [url= http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/standardknot.htm ]The Round-The-Tree method[/url] to the [url= http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/twoloopknot.htm ]Bunny Ears method[/url] helped a lot.
I did work out Q8 though!
Following the invasion that precipitated the first Iraq war the filling station near me coincidentally changed hands so the the sign on it read 'Q8 - Under new management' 🙂
Esso?! Wow - I always thought it was Saudi Oil O.o
You learn somfink ev'ry day [though having just started my 3rd year I'd better learn at a faster rate than that, and so saying I'd better get off this forum and [s]procrastinate[/s] build my desk].
Only recently realised Breakfast was Breaking your Fast 😳
Learning what the format painter tool is for on MS Word etc has sadly improved my working life as well
I never knew sticky backed plastic wasWhy? Oh why, did they just not say SELLOTAPE.
Sellotape would have been referred to as sticky tape - the sticky back plastic is sheets of coloured or patterned plastic usually branded as "Fablon"
The man behind Trebor was called Robert.
My mind is blown.
That Washington isn't actually in Washington state, the DC should have given it away really 😳
Cotic?
I given in.
Cotic?I given in.
Well the bloke who set up the brand is called Cy and the name of his bike brand implies that he is a bit mad.
The middle mouse button
Good coffee (compared to instant of any sort) and tea, from proper tea leaves, made in a pot, served in a proper cup (with a saucer).
I think a lot of it is just learning to take the time out to make tea or coffee a bit of quiet, special time. Life's normally a bit fast-paced.
Cotic?I given in.
Well the bloke who set up the brand is called Cy and the name of his bike brand implies that he is a bit mad.
The name is pronounced "COT ic" rather than "Co Tic"
Cy Cotic = psychotic
singletrack magazine.
theres a magazine? 😯
that the lyrics to Ian browns F.E.A.R, spell out fear
Only recently noticed the Garmin logo with the arrow over the N, like a compass innit.
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My Ford Transits fuel gauge arrow points the wrong way then!
I didn't get the "it's always in the last place you look" phrase for years 😳
Can some one explain Kaffenback?
Kaffenback - Cafe (caff) and Back - a bike for nipping to the cafe.
Kaffenback - Cafe (caff) and Back - a bike for nipping to the cafe.
The story behind 'Uncle John' is quite amusing
Ok, what's the Uncle John story?
It was a disturbing amount of time before I got the "altogether" joke in Police Squad/Airplane... I think I even had to have it explained to me...
Drebbin: "It's a different kind of joke altogether"
Everyone: "It's a different kind of joke"
Ok, what's the Uncle John story?
Brant had an Uncle John. It's a [i]cross[/i] bike...
I've just rectified my laces. Every day's a school day.
It has always annoyed me that Americans write dates in the format YYYY/MM/DD. What annoyed me even more was when I realised yesterday that this makes perfect sense because numerical and chronological order will be the same, so lists of files that start with a date will already be in order.
They win this round.
