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Landfill capacity will be zero by 2020 in the UK.
2.5 million properties in England and Wales are at risk from flooding.
The largest illegal tyre dump is near Knighton, Powys, holds 10 million tyres and is still burning/smouldering 21 years after it caught fire in 1989. It simply cannot be put out.

enduro-aid – I WANT TO

As a rule of thumb the percentage likelihood of dying from your burns is the percentage of body surface area burnt + your age.

(Not including first degree burns)

The amount of 4×4 fires attended went up massively when the tax for them went up massively.

My daughter has got the splats 😕

Covalent octahedral Fe(III) Na polymers align in magnetic fields, and have a D that can be measured directly from the aligned spectrum at 96GHz

Give me a minute and I’ll think of something….

Pacemakers are miraculously transformed into a bomb if not removed from the body prior to cremation.

The high visibility edge markings on the ramp of a bus complying with the Disability Discrimination Act should be plain yellow if it is DDA2, but can be yellow, or yellow and black, if it is DDA1.

The picture of a wheelchair on the notice marking the position of the wheelchair space on a DDA bus should be facing the same way as the wheelchair is intended to face.

Any full body graphics applied to the windows of a bus should not be less than 5mm from the edge of any window that is designated as an emergency exit.

Not on-topic, but related to the Eiffel Tower one earlier:

The air contained within the Eiffel Tower weighs more than the steel the tower is made of.

Koh-I-noor & Derwent manufacture 20 pencils in thier flagship range wereas Steadler only make nineteen omitting 9b from it’s Mars Lumograph range. Italians first used wood to make the cases of pencils. The largest deposit of graphite was found in England. H denotes Hard, B black and F fine.

Any bridge with 16’6″, or greater, clearance doesn’t need a low bridge height warning.

Starting next year, all new 5p and 10p coins will be made of nickle coated steel, instead of cupronickle (75% copper, 25% nickle) and will, in order to keep the same weight so banks don’t have to change weighing equipment, be 0.2mm thicker. This will save the Royal Mint £7-8m a year.

It will however, mean any machine that accepts these coins will need re-programming to accept the new coins.

The new coins will, for the first time, be magnetic.

There are already steel coated 2p and 1ps in existance, pass a magnet over your change and you’ll find them.

there is no such thing a a digital specific aerial……….. 8)

It is possible to electrocute lobsters.

The marker lights on the side of a truck or trailer should be orange, unless they are within 1m of the rear, in which case they can be orange or red.

You don’t need planning permission for solar panels, even in conservation areas…

Fascinating eh..?

What an excellent thread.

As a rule of thumb the percentage likelihood of dying from your burns is the percentage of body surface area burnt + your age.

That is a strangely interesting but incredibly grim little rule of thumb there old bean.

Always address a Viscountess as ‘Lady + title surname’. When in West Bengal never eat the seeds from curried banana.

Caesium chloride is not good to use as makeup
Also, if you have a pacemaker, a 3T MR scanner can rip it out.

a digital signal will pass 10km via a fibre optical cable.

Most trucks and trailers use plastic wings.
On a fuel tanker they must be steel to help contain any tyre or brake fire.

Windscreen washers are not a legal requirement on buses used on stage carriage.

Landfill capacity will be zero by 2020 in the UK.
2.5 million properties in England and Wales are at risk from flooding.
The largest illegal tyre dump is near Knighton, Powys, holds 10 million tyres and is still burning/smouldering 21 years after it caught fire in 1989. It simply cannot be put out.

This is the best so far!

It is an offence for a bus not to display the correct route number on the front.

In metals Yield stress is inversely proportional to grain size (within limits).

All buses must display the seating/standing/wheelchair capacity in such a way that it is visible to a person standing on the pavement on the left hand side.

Sideguards are a legal requirement on all trucks and trailers, except those which discharge their load by raising the body (tippers and skip lorries)

Let me know when you’ve had enough truck and bus stuff. 😉

wikipedia says it only burnt for 15 years although thats impressive too.

Gaenacologists never wear a tie , they usually wear a bow tie instead.

Some people actually like Tony Bliar and Margret Thatcher, the drugs they take make them believe that.

When big companies ‘invest’ in new technologies the developers need to be really careful about exclusivity: there’s massively more money in it in the short-term but the new owners will seal the technology in a box, hide it in a warehouse and continue to milk the market for billions from traditional kit.

This is notwithstanding the fact that the new technology can be cheaper to use, cheaper to produce, almost energy-free and can be used even in places with no running water.

All buses and coaches must have the internal lights on duing the hours of darkness, or when in a tunnel etc.

Taxi,s and private hire cars must have the indicators and mirrors rendered inoperable,

Bus drivers must not offer change for a fiver, 😀

CSH Nov 2011 Technical Guidance is 290 pages.
🙁

The more hours you work for a company, the harder you wiork, the less time you loose etc, the more likely you are to be sacked or made redundant, because aniother mug will be along soon after to do the same job for less.

Contrary to popular belief, cutting the air lines between a truck and trailer will not cause it to run away with no brakes.

If the red air line is cut, the trailer brakes will be automatically applied.

If the yellow air line is cut, next time the driver applies the foot brake, the truck brakes won’t release.

Flatulence is funny, yet deadly:-
“Most component have low or no toxicity with the exception of Carbon dioxide which “At about 8% it causes headache, sweating, dim vision, tremor and loss of consciousness after exposure for between five and ten minutes.” and flatulence can contain up to 30% of it but only for a very short period (few seconds) ; also to consider is diffusion which is linked to proximity and inhalation quantity.”

And if I’ve signed a document – I can actually go to prison – which is scary!

You can drive a bus with an HGV licence, but only with no passengers and only in connection with the maintenance of the bus (road tests, taking it to MOT test etc.).

You can drive a breakdown truck with a PSV licence, but only in connection with the recovery of a bus (to the breakdown and back to the depot).

The drug given to reverse the effects of an opiate overdose increases the feeling of pain in the human body as it overrides the bodies own pain relief function.

On reflection, it appears that D-enantiomeric amino acids can be taken up by soil microbes…

We train more hairdressers nationally each year than we employ in the entire country