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lostinrates

wageslave wrote: »

My council tax is bliddy expensive too.

Yes, but, would you be happy to pay more for salt?

Inthink we should thake these things with [STRIKE]a pinch of salt[/STRIKE] good grace, and the accpetance that as yet we are not omnipotent, and nature beats man still occasionally.

Graham_Devon

lostinrates wrote: »

I suppose salt is uite hard/expensive to store...I mean, presumably it has to stay dry ?

I think they have the storage, just don't think we are buying as much of it as we usually would.

BBC had a report on it from the 14th...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8410726.stm

Snooze

Davesnave wrote: »

Another accident on the main road today, involving a couple of vehicles, but I'm not sure if icy conditions played any part. No one seriously hurt.

This was at least a 'useful' accident, happening at the awful junction where the County Council has implied that major improvements will only happen if the accident rate justifies them. At that point there is a four way junction, blind bend, 300 degree turn, a level crossing and the station car park/pull-in. All these factors conspire to put many an unwary passer-through in a scary position, especially when the red lights start flashing, the barriers deploy and they are left on the bend with nowhere to go!

300 degree turn? :huh::huh::huh:

How does that work then?

R

wageslave

Snooze wrote: »

300 degree turn? :huh::huh::huh:

How does that work then?

R

This is a nice thread.

Please leave logic at the door.

lostinrates

I know what Davenaves means....those turns where it goes back on you to the left, I've seen a couple that must be 300 degrees. (out side the country side they'd be mini roundabouts I guess.)

vivatifosi

Wouldn't a hairpin be about 300 degrees?

Snooze

:rotfl:

I see you all went to the same maths/geometry school as each other! You can't have a turn more than 179 degrees as you'd just be turned round and going back where you came from!

A 300 degree turn to the left, for example, would actually be a 60 degree turn to the right.

R

lostinrates

Snooze wrote: »

:rotfl:


A 300 degree turn to the left, for example, would actually be a 60 degree turn to the right.

R

H'uh? turn at the end of my road is agreater than 180...I cant turn the other way because of traffic laws....surely?

Oh hang on. I get what your saying.....I think we're talking about turning circle, where as you are talking about the actual car....or vice versa...I've confused myself now

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

More Snow in Aberdeen tonight..... 'Tis a veritable blizzard out there.:D

On top of all the snow still here, as it's not been above freezing all day.

Excellent.

Snooze

lostinrates wrote: »

H'uh? turn at the end of my road is agreater than 180...I cant turn the other way because of traffic laws....surely?

Oh hang on. I get what your saying.....I think we're talking about turning circle, where as you are talking about the actual car....or vice versa...I've confused myself now

:huh:

A 360 degree would be a full circle, obviously, and what would be the point of doing that when you could just carry on as you are already doing?

If you're going along a road and you do a 180 then you've turned round and are going back where you came from, therefore it's physically impossible to have a road turn of more than that amount. Roundabouts are obviously different but even so you still wouldn't go alllllllllll the way round a roundabout to an exit at 300 degrees from where you came from when you could have taken it the first time you went past it. :cool:

Anyone give me a hand to get these worms back in their tin?

R