Who's Sick of Talkin' 'bout the Mari Ban?

Trilby • May 9, 2006 5:26 pm
I am.
glatt • May 9, 2006 5:34 pm
Well, I'm not sure I ever commented on it, so technically I was never talking about it myself. Although I did vote in a poll that I didn't care.

But yeah, it's probably time to move on.

How about the price of gas?! Damn! I was just in South Carolina, and it was only 2.75 there. It's over 3.00 in D.C. area.
Trilby • May 9, 2006 5:48 pm
Today I saw gas for 2.59! That's right! 2.59! Better fill up!
Kagen4o4 • May 9, 2006 6:13 pm
oh yeah? its $1.40 here. and thats for a litre. your price is by the gallon aint it?
Trilby • May 9, 2006 6:34 pm
Yeah, by the gallon.
lumberjim • May 9, 2006 6:45 pm
I think someone shit on the coats!
Trilby • May 9, 2006 6:53 pm
lumberjim wrote:
I think someone shit on the coats!


WhatWhat, now?
DucksNuts • May 9, 2006 6:58 pm
lumberjim wrote:
I think someone shit on the coats!


? :neutral:
lumberjim • May 9, 2006 7:24 pm
listen to the clips here. all of them if you have time
Griff • May 9, 2006 9:22 pm
glatt wrote:

How about the price of gas?! Damn! I was just in South Carolina, and it was only 2.75 there. It's over 3.00 in D.C. area.

It is like 2.97 or 3 bucks here. I put the goats on the yard today. Gas is a great excuse to never mow again.
Cheyenne • May 9, 2006 10:08 pm
It is $3.49 a gallon for the cheap stuff here and around $3.99 for the premo.
rkzenrage • May 9, 2006 10:10 pm
Brianna wrote:
I am.

Me too, let's talk about that. :cool:
Ibby • May 10, 2006 1:36 am
man, gas is under a buck in Thailand, though I'll have to assume it's in litres...
limey • May 10, 2006 3:44 am
Ahem .. it's over a pound a litre here, that's about $1.70 or so a litre, or $8 a gallon (US gallons are smaller than imperial ones, right?).
You just have to not think about it ...
DucksNuts • May 10, 2006 5:42 am
Costs me $106 per week to fill my friggen car, I think I need to get a scooter!
zippyt • May 10, 2006 9:29 am
It cost $98 to fill up my pickup , good thing it's a company truck and a company gas card !!!!
Cyclefrance • May 10, 2006 10:54 am
Now 96p-97p per litre here in UK

At $1.87/£1 that's $1.81 per litre

and at 3.79 litres per US Gallon

that's $6.87 per US Gallon

So to put 14 UK gallons/17.5 US Gallons into my car costs the equivalent today of $120!

Stop moaning!

Our prices seem to rise even when the dollar weakens - price was 92p per litre two months ago when there was $1.74/£1 (=$6.06 per US Gallon)

And I thought alll these oil companies ran sophisticated hedge funds anyway on both oil prices and foreign exchange to limit the impact of short-term market fluctuations.

The only ones to gain are 1). the oil companies who charge accordiing to what the market does and not according to how their own arrangements soften that effect, and 2). the governments who see their %age-based tax incomes rise as the gasoline prices rise at the pumps
Trilby • May 10, 2006 11:28 am
To all my Aussie and UK friends--I humbly apologize for my country's incessant whining about high gas prices. American's just like to bitch; we're good at it, and, it passes the time.

To fill up in the UK or Oz sounds downright depressing. I wish they'd unleash that big stash sitting underneath Indonesia...of course, some people say the only way we'll find a new energy source is to be forced off oil.
Kagen4o4 • May 10, 2006 6:24 pm
there are plenty of new energy sources! governments just make too much off oil.
unless thats what you were talking about
Cheyenne • May 10, 2006 8:16 pm
zippyt wrote:
It cost $98 to fill up my pickup , good thing it's a company truck and a company gas card !!!!


Same here, two tanks....$104.00. It is a beast. I am glad my personal vehicle is small. Costs around 35-40 to fill it. I can go for quite a while on one tank around here.
Trilby • May 11, 2006 7:44 am
Kagen4o4 wrote:
there are plenty of new energy sources! governments just make too much off oil.
unless thats what you were talking about


yeah, Bush and Cheney are both oil men. They're loving this.
I'd like to see the corn/fuel stuff happen. An increase in the demand for corn would really help my state out! :) We can grow us some corn out here!
Beestie • May 11, 2006 11:54 am
Hydrogen is the answer. Volitile and plentiful and the byproduct is inert. I don't understand the hold up.
rkzenrage • May 11, 2006 5:32 pm
Beestie wrote:
Hydrogen is the answer. Volitile and plentiful and the byproduct is inert. I don't understand the hold up.

Oil based economy... who runs the White House and Pentagon? Not the puppet in it, he does not matter.
xoxoxoBruce • May 11, 2006 8:49 pm
Kagen4o4 wrote:
there are plenty of new energy sources! governments just make too much off oil.
Nope, we could run our cars on pixie dust and flea farts, the government would figure out how to make it pay.

Beestie wrote:
Hydrogen is the answer. Volitile and plentiful and the byproduct is inert. I don't understand the hold up.
Plentiful? Water is plentiful when you die of thirst in a lifeboat, too.
Hydrogen is plentiful but not in a form we can use. It has to be separated from something else, like oxygen in the case of water. Separating takes energy....lots and lots of energy. That's the holdup. :D
footfootfoot • May 11, 2006 10:36 pm
xoxoxoBruce wrote:
Nope, we could run our cars on pixie dust and flea farts, the government would figure out how to make it pay.

Plentiful? Water is plentiful when you die of thirst in a lifeboat, too.
Hydrogen is plentiful but not in a form we can use. It has to be separated from something else, like oxygen in the case of water. Separating takes energy....lots and lots of energy. That's the holdup. :D


Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink ;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
xoxoxoBruce • May 11, 2006 10:49 pm
Wet boards shrink? :right:
Kagen4o4 • May 12, 2006 2:54 am
footfootfoot wrote:
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink ;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.



no no no.

its

water water everywhere
so lets all have a drink
NoBoxes • May 12, 2006 3:48 am
Hold the water

and hold the broads ................ I mean boards. :blush:
lumberjim • May 13, 2006 2:45 am
xoxoxoBruce wrote:
Nope, we could run our cars on pixie dust and flea farts, the government would figure out how to make it pay.

:D
fleas can't fart......
Cyclefrance • May 13, 2006 3:11 am
lumberjim wrote:
fleas can't fart......


How d'ya think they jump so high?
Cyclefrance • May 13, 2006 3:19 am
footfootfoot wrote:
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink ;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.


Reminded me of an abridged version of the 'Mariner' - tried to find it - no luck yet. It was only three or four verses long. Can remember a few lines in case it inspires someone to comeup with the rest:


I tweaked a bleeding albatross
And shot him through the head
And when I saw what I had done
I wished that I was dead

What with that bird about me neck
And spirits in the water
I knew that thing that I had done
I really hadn't oughta

I ate my humble, wouldn't you

and so on...
DucksNuts • May 13, 2006 4:59 am
lumberjim wrote:
fleas can't fart......


:eyebrow: do you have anything to back this claim up? My dad has taken to blaming the dogs fleas and I would like some proof before I confront him about it :D
xoxoxoBruce • May 13, 2006 12:54 pm
Blaming the dog's fleas? That's silly, the real culprit is the Buck Mice.:D
DucksNuts • May 13, 2006 6:24 pm
Puleeze Bruce, youre talking about a man who still tries to get me to fall for 'pull my finger, pull my finger!!'..Dad's, they never grow up. :D
Cyclefrance • May 15, 2006 10:26 am
A few intersting diagrams - note UK gasoline is now 97p/litre

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Cyclefrance • May 15, 2006 10:27 am
....and 2 more:

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Cyclefrance • May 15, 2006 10:31 am
Oops! - meant to post this one....

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marichiko • May 15, 2006 2:28 pm
I am. :rolleyes:

And don't you EVER, not EVER ask me for help with your English homework again, Bri.:mad:
rkzenrage • May 15, 2006 2:30 pm
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marichiko • May 15, 2006 2:38 pm
No, I hold on to MY binky. Lost yours? :p
dar512 • May 15, 2006 2:43 pm
lumberjim wrote:
fleas can't fart......

And mice can't burp - at least so I've heard.
rkzenrage • May 15, 2006 3:15 pm
marichiko wrote:
No, I hold on to MY binky. Lost yours? :p

Gotta' lanyard. Keep it handy. :cool:
Trilby • May 15, 2006 6:00 pm
marichiko wrote:
I am. :rolleyes:

And don't you EVER, not EVER ask me for help with your English homework again, Bri.:mad:


Meh. You weren't much help anyway.
marichiko • May 15, 2006 9:38 pm
Aesop, "The fox and the grapes"
Trilby • May 16, 2006 8:03 am
Mari, that analogy just doesn't work. I'm not 'sour grapes' because I asked you to help and you didn't. You DID help me, so, I did, metaphorically, 'eat the grapes'. I just found your help to be...well, not very helpful. It's not a matter of 'oh, I WANTED those grapes and couldn't get them; I'll bet they are sour anyway'--it's a matter of, "I ate those grapes. They weren't all that great."

See how that works?
marichiko • May 16, 2006 10:28 am
No.
Cyclefrance • May 16, 2006 11:47 am
Brianna wrote:
Mari, that analogy just doesn't work. I'm not 'sour grapes' because I asked you to help and you didn't. You DID help me, so, I did, metaphorically, 'eat the grapes'. I just found your help to be...well, not very helpful. It's not a matter of 'oh, I WANTED those grapes and couldn't get them; I'll bet they are sour anyway'--it's a matter of, "I ate those grapes. They weren't all that great."

See how that works?


Sounds like you've sampled my cooking as well...
mrnoodle • May 16, 2006 12:21 pm
Reading this whole thread makes me wish we had a "herd" smiley.

That's not directed at any one in particular, just an observation about people.
xoxoxoBruce • May 16, 2006 7:25 pm
Sigh....Keep it up Ladies, you're both still in the running. :rolleyes:
marichiko • May 16, 2006 9:06 pm
Oooooh! I love it! What do I have to do to win? I'll do anything except for calling Bruce a mean name! :D

Oh, yeah. MEOW!
Cheyenne • May 16, 2006 9:26 pm
xoxoxoBruce wrote:
Sigh....Keep it up Ladies, you're both still in the running. :rolleyes:


I have already won this award. Too late for all you other biznatches!


:p