Originally posted by Rupert Was it over 100F like it is here...with 60% humidity? It is murder out there today.
Squirrels are taking it easy while waiting for the beer truck to arrive...
"What do you mean the beer truck had a flat tire and will be an hour late???"
No, not that extreme. Just much more sun than I have gotten accustomed to so it felt hot. And moving about working or walking outside was a bit hard.
Last year I went to a place where the temperature is often mid to high 30s with humidity about 85-90%. Weather I can do without.
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Originally posted by MarkJerling Some joker decided to try to evade the Police in our town and took a shortcut through the local gas station at speed.
Oh, and you can see our extortion type fuel prices - That's per litre. A US gallon is 3.78 litres. More than 55% of our fuel price is tax.
Quite a sight. Was the guy the size of a front row forward. Maybe they could give him a job as a prop and open for business.
It is obvious, you all should be buying diesel instead of petrol. Our price here is now around 115 pence per litre for both petrol and diesel.
Prices like that do encourage one to buy a car that goes a long way per litre. Mine can get as good as 53 mpg (note we buy in litres, drive miles and use in mpg, kind of goes against the rules we were all taught in school about mixing units) on a warmish day in smooth traffic at 50-60 mph.
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Originally posted by Rupert Strangest thing I ever saw....well, along those lines. I saw a lot of strange things, like the woman with a real live bobcat that was mostly still wild.....or the other woman that had 20 something raccoons living inside with her. Then there were the pigs that lived in a guest room...real pigs. You see a lot when you do service work.
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Do you mean pigs that turn into bacon?
And the talk of tax on fuel. Long ago I thought it would be lovely to be a government. You can decide how much money you want and tell everyone how much to pay and when. Everyone else in the economy has to make or do something attractive enough to other people that they will choose, in the competition of all the other things and services offered, to spend their money on what you are offering. And given this, when a government decides they want money, they come up with a formula for working out how much tax they charge under each possible name, so if they did not charge it for fuel they would charge it for something else.