So with gas prices rising......the idiots come out.....

[Popeye the Sailor]

My favorite kind of idiots too-the ones who'll just spout off anything that's told to them as if it's fact.

You know the type-the ones who'll tell you irregardless isn't a word. Which always amuses me.

I mean how do you know it's not a word? Did you check?


Oh look! It's in the dictionary....along with all the other words.




These idiots will tell you not to let your fuel level get too low, or you'll suck the sludge at the bottom of the tank.

I'm not sure I've ever *seen* a fueling system that takes the fuel on the top first. Good thing they gave absolutely no thought whatsoever to what they were saying.



Now we have this. http://jeremiahsviolins.com/grooves.htm Where someone is advocating removing cylinder heads....and cutting grooves into the combustion chamber to increase efficiency. This is not entirely out of whack-there are patents of this sort of thing, but really-he's doing no research. No controls, no data, just a butt dyno that's telling him that's he's seeing the results he wants to see. Real scientific, jerkoff. Sure, just...pull the cylinder head and cut some grooves in it! I'll do it on my lunch break.

From the site:
"The engine will idle smoothly to below 500 rpm, but is limited to 650 rpm by the ECM."

So wait...then how do you know it'll idle at 500 rpm?

"I can idle it while driving in 2nd gear below 500 rpm without it complaining too much."

Er...that's not idling. Also, it's not *good* for the engine to run that slowly under load.


I'm an engineer. I need to back up my data-I can prove the plane on a conveyor belt takes off. Hence when I say "It'll take off", it's because it'll take off. I get annoyed with half the idiots with no background in anything remotely pertinent come around and try to explain to me how things work.

Sorry, no....the magnet on the fuel line will not help.

The little plastic air velocity doodad? Almost as useful as you, but at least one of those things was worth something at one point.

Acetone? Get an extra 50 MPG? Really? Does that mean you can drive further away from me? Because that's what I'd like.



So, do me a huge favor. When you run across one of these idiots advocating their idiocy, please, just smack them in the head with a shovel. We don't need that shit to spread any further.

[somegirl]

Maybe he fills his tires with nitrogen too.

[SacDuc]

Dude, if you are going to get upset at the idiots you meet, you are in for a long miserable life. Try to look at it like this. When idiots say idiotic things they are giving you a clear signal to stay the hell away from them. Most idiots do this immediately in a conversation. That is worth a lot. Think if you had to invest six months in a relationship/friendship with some one before you could determine if they were an idiot. You would waste a lot of your life hanging around with idiots. But idiots make themselves easy to spot through their very idiocy. When an idiot is being idiotic you should thank them for saving you the time trying to find out if they are an idiot or not. Then of course never talk to them again because every one knows that idiocy is contagious. If you hang around idiots too long you will start claiming you know how to solve the worlds problems using bumber-sticker philosophies. Which is idiotic.

sac


/idiot

[eyeboy]

Dude, if you are going to get upset at the idiots you meet, you are in for a long miserable life. Try to look at it like this. When idiots say idiotic things they are giving you a clear signal to stay the hell away from them. Most idiots do this immediately in a conversation. That is worth a lot. Think if you had to invest six months in a relationship/friendship with some one before you could determine if they were an idiot. You would waste a lot of your life hanging around with idiots. But idiots make themselves easy to spot through their very idiocy. When an idiot is being idiotic you should thank them for saving you the time trying to find out if they are an idiot or not. Then of course never talk to them again because every one knows that idiocy is contagious. If you hang around idiots too long you will start claiming you know how to solve the worlds problems using bumber-sticker philosophies. Which is idiotic.

sac


/idiot

sigh... i could use a bit more patience when it comes to idiots because i far too frequently react the wrong way...

dunno why i let them bother me.

that's it, i am done with letting them bother me. wow... this is great! awesome, now on with my life!

thanks! 

grrr... i wish it could be so easy... i'll give it a good try though. wish me luck!

[sno_duc]

Gee you mean that the laws of thermodynamics are absolute.
Bummer.

To move an object of a given weight and a given Cd at a given speed requires a given amount power.
You can't change that.
All you can do is try to get a bigger percentage of energy in the fuel to the wheels.
IIRC the monster diesels in ocean going container ships are right at 50% thermal efficiency.
What are most cars 20 - 25 % ?

[SacDuc]

sigh... i could use a bit more patience when it comes to idiots because i far too frequently react the wrong way...

dunno why i let them bother me.

that's it, i am done with letting them bother me. wow... this is great! awesome, now on with my life!

thanks! 

grrr... i wish it could be so easy... i'll give it a good try though. wish me luck!

I say this with all seriousness. Next time someone you don't care about starts prattling on about something stupid, just turn and walk way. Wait until they are midsentence and just leave. Go to the bathroom, get in your car, go to your desk. It is this incredibly liberating feeling when you realize that you have spent hours and hours of your life listening to idiots merely because you were being polite. make the beast with two backs polite. Idiots don't deserve it. Just leave. Without a word just turn your back and start walking away. It feels make the beast with two backsing awesome.  

sac

[eyeboy]

I say this with all seriousness. Next time someone you don't care about starts prattling on about something stupid, just turn and walk way. Wait until they are midsentence and just leave. Go to the bathroom, get in your car, go to your desk. It is this incredibly liberating feeling when you realize that you have spent hours and hours of your life listening to idiots merely because you were being polite. make the beast with two backs polite. Idiots don't deserve it. Just leave. Without a word just turn your back and start walking away. It feels make the beast with two backsing awesome.   

sac

i'm going to do it! i am!

[darylbowden]

You know the type-the ones who'll tell you irregardless isn't a word. Which always amuses me.

According to the OAD:

irregardless |ˌiriˈgärdlis|
adjective & adverb informal
regardless.
ORIGIN early 20th cent.: probably a blend of irrespective and regardless .
USAGE Irregardless, with its illogical negative prefix, is widely heard, perhaps arising under the influence of such perfectly correct forms as : irrespective. Irregardless is avoided by careful users of English. Use regardless to mean 'without regard or consideration for' or 'nevertheless': : I go walking every day regardless of season or weather.


It wasn't a word - until enough morons started using it.

[somegirl]

It wasn't a word - until enough morons started using it.

The same people who say, "I could care less."

[darylbowden]

The same people who say, "I could care less."

Hehe, exactly.

[ROBsS4R]

Maybe he fills his tires with nitrogen too. Roll Eyes

Oh that does not work 

[He Man]

Oh that does not work 

NASCAR uses nitrogen in their tires. But its only because of the moisture and pressure issues though.

[somegirl]

Oh that does not work 

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/070216.html

[ROBsS4R]

Didn't the Mythbuster's do a whole show on all the Gas Myths 

[Mac_48]

I knew a guy who would spew "facts" that were completely unsupported.  we called them Anthony facts...he would say things like Portuguese is the perfect race and that Aztecs were really people that migrated from Spain   If you ever got in a discussion about the validity of these claims and were able to prove him wrong, he would just repeat "your a dumbass" until you gave up on him. Sometimes if you got him angry enough in discussions he would say "I'll shank you pregnant dog".  This was coming from a guy who was a lot shorter and smaller than me....after a while I gave up on trying to convince him his nuggets of wisdom were wrong and sat back to enjoy his ridiculous statements