Spoilt BratsMr Newton sighs, "ever known anyone so spoilt you would love to strangle? I lived with a Paris Hilton-a-like who complained about everything, stomped her feet and whinged till she got her way. There was a happy ending though: she had to drop out of uni due to becoming pregnant after a one night stand..."
Who's the spoiltest person you've met? Has karma come to bite them yet? Or did you in fact end up strangling them? Uncle B3ta (and the serious crimes squad) wants to know.
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chthonic, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 14:11)
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Re: car engines...I believe so. They have a sort of "optimum" speed, which is usually around motorway speeds, where the engine runs most efficiently. So it is actually less efficient to drive at 20mph.
However, I don't know how much difference there is in efficiency between driving at 20mph and driving at 30mph. There's probably a way of working it out but that would require me to start trawling wikipedia.
I'm also with y'all on melting down the Chelsea tractors (vulgar, fuel-hungry totems to narcissistic excess that they are). But let's force the flabby little to walk to school. Or, if it's really that far, would it kill them to have to share a bus with all those "common" folk?
Grrrrr
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Good pointI hasten to add, I used to walk to school. The metro was for long journeys (the joys of a family of four plus a sodding huge tent going to Norfolk in a tiny car ^_^)
Can you imagine all those little kids trying to *walk* to school? Surely their little limbs will be atrophied with all the carting around and no exercise.
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VandenPlas can't think of anything clever - no change there!, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 12:55,
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It's not so mucha difference in efficiency between 30mph and 20mph- that's probably negligable.
It's between doing 20 and having to slow to 5mph EVERY FREAKING 50 FEET! You can't sit at 5mph or you get honked at- and don't really get anywhere anyway.
Increasing 1 tonne (1000kg) from 5 to 20mph means 20kJ of energy is burnt. Now given a 20% efficiency of engine that means about 100kJ of energy is wasted for every speed bump. So on a 10 speed bump road, each trip of each car wastes 0.02kWh of energy. Think how many cars go down your road, multiply the 0.02 by that number, then double that as they'll come home at the end of the day too. The speed bumps on a long residential street could waste as much energy just in use- never mind extra maintanence etc- as a whole other car doing 20.
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uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 15:47,
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